Johnny Boy wrote:Belgium may deserve more investigation.

Your criterion of

3) Lenient and friendly tax laws (personal and business).

would rule it out.

However, Luxembourg would best meet that requirement.

Is it freedom of speech to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater?

So a convicted criminal is a gentleman is he? That is not the usual Conservative view on felons. At least we are all agreed on the type of company that Madame T kept, ie criminal or alleged criminal, accused of murder and kidnapping. http://news.bbc.co.UK/olmedia/300000/images/_304516_pinochet_thatc...

James Martin wrote:Bring back Maggie Thatcher, she knows how to sort this country out.

With advice from her close friends General Pinochet, Conrad Black, and Geoffrey Archer, all who have been charged with criminal activity?

Birds of a feather? Or just like minded individuals?

There's not a chance in hell that people would allow microchips to be embedded under their skin! One company already thinks that there is a market for "concerned" parents having their children chipped. < http://www.wired.COM/news/technology/0,1282,60771,00.html > According to two web site...

Just cover it in foil! And then get busted by the ID Cops, just like RMS did at the UN World Summit on the information society at Tunis conference? < http://perens.sourcelabs.COM/articles/2005/11/18/friday-november-18-richard-stallman-gets-in-trouble-with-un-security-for-wearing-a-tin-foil-hat >

MarkN wrote:Wall's - Unilever Ice cream

But not Unilever Ice Cream for too much longer, since Unilever are selling off their frozen food business as it is no longer as profitable as it once was.

<http://news.bbc.co.UK/2/hi/business/4695908.stm>

And if you think plain old biometric data compulsory identity cards are scarey, just wait until carrying the next generation card, the RFID, becomes compulsory.

<http://www.spychips.COM/>

As the government of the Dear Leader is taking steps to introduce screening of rail passengers, < http://news.bbc.co.UK/2/hi/uk_news/4434302.stm > how much longer will it be before "permits to travel" are introduced because of the war time situation (viz the Global War on Terrorism)?

NPR, along with other networks, is reporting that Harry Whittington has been released from hospital and that he has given a press conference in which he apologized,

"My family and I are deeply sorry for everything Vice President Cheney and his family have had to deal with."

Thanks for the explanation.

Dr Lobster* wrote:putting my life in somebody elses hands who doesn't really place the value on it that i do was indeed, a no brainer.

That is the most important point anybody considering joining the armed services should always consider before anything else.