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Thread #150885   Message #3520242
Posted By: MGM·Lion
29-May-13 - 12:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Unarmed soldier killed, (London-May 2013)
Subject: RE: BS: Unarmed soldier killed, Woolwich (London)
Thank you, Richard. I take the point, if these are indeed the same passages. But you are wrong in your last comment ~~ I did not say they were accurate; I made no assertion but simply asked where Don had found them, as he claimed 'misquoted', as they resembled what I recalled to have heard on some previous occasion. He has now withdrawn his assertion that they were misquoted, admitting that he hasn't the knowledge to make such a judgment; and fallen back on his somewhat feeble IMO argument that no passage can be accurately quoted by extracting a single sentence from it out of context; to which I would rejoin that it would depend what that sentence, even regarded as a single entity, says, and that this will not pass as an outright generalisation.

~M~