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Listed below are comments made by bath_ed between Thursday, 20th November 2008 and Saturday, 13th June 2009.

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March of the right 11:13pm on 13 Jun 2009 "The debate demonstrates the clear inferiority of nation states based on a shared history and culture to one based on shared values. That is the superiority of the United States of America over all other countries."

The trouble is that view of the USA is rather a myth in my opinion. Before 1965 (ie for the great majority of the USA's history) there was very little 'Third World' immigration to the USA and most immigrants came from Europe. 'Third World' immigrantion was very heavily restricted. Therefore these immigrants brought cultures and values that were in many ways shared.

So this view is revisionist in my view because it disregards or falsifies the history of immigration to the USA and pretends that immigrants from say Italy, Ireland and Poland in the past were exactly the same as those from Somalia, Haiti and Mexico today.
Pakistan: Britain's terror heartland? 6:41pm on 27 Dec 2008 This is typical of the moral relativists to go off at a tangent, waffle and mock without actually giving any relevant facts.

The fact is that Islamist terror is claiming thousands of victims per year in dozens of countries from Morocco to the Philippines. Tell us of comparable Christian, Jewish, Buddhist etc terror campaigns. Lets have facts.

Lets have no nonsense about the IRA (a localised problem) who *never* justified their crimes with religion.
Pakistan: Britain's terror heartland? 7:29pm on 26 Dec 2008 "Go ahead, tell us all what the difference is between the two, and why Griffin/BNP shouldn't be tossed out of the country under the same laws the right wing demands be implemented?"

Could it be the small matter that Islamist terrorists are blowing hundreds and thousands of people to smithereens every year worldwide while the BNP doesn't?

It's amazing this moral equivalence in which offending people is regarded as just as bad as murdering them.
A future for cod? 02:23am on 20 Nov 2008 Without being patronising, fishermen are not the people to get reliable figures on fish stocks from.

The problem, which has only been understood relatively recently, is to do with fish distribution. Fish congregate in the best feeding grounds until these grounds are saturated; remaining fish are then displaced to less favoured feeding grounds.

Thus as fish are caught in the best feeding grounds they are replaced by fish from the less favoured areas. Eventually the sea can be empty of fish apart from the last few shoals in the best feeding grounds.

With modern fish location devices it is possible to find these shoals and catch them. To the fisherman it will appear as though there are plenty of fish right to the end as the survivors are concentrated and easy to catch.

This is essentially what happened to Canada's once famous Grand Banks cod fishery. "Common sense" and fishermen's observations suggested that there would be plenty of warning before stocks collapsed, as it was thought it would be obvious that fish numbers were declining. Unfortunately they didn't understand how things worked, and now the world's biggest cod fishery is nothing but a memory.

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