Trevor,

Swabbie, know I realize why it is that ordinary seamen
must ask permission to address an officer - it's because
their verbal assaults tend to numb the refined intellect.

Consider yourself fortunate as I have decided to spend
a wee bit of my valuable time attempting to educate a
common deck ape as to his uttermost folly attempting
to understand the complications of politics.

You will find my wise comments interjected throughout
your outright blunders. I have even done so in blue so
you would be a little less inclined to become lost.

----- Original Message -----
From: Trevor Artingstoll
To: Capt. Neal
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 08:39
Subject: Sentence before trial

Hi,Cap'n Neal and beggin' yer pardin for speakin' to an orficer without permission

It isn't so much a belief in freedom of speech that is at stake. It's first of all a belief
in the sovereigntyof nations. Like the bedroom, what goes on inside a nation is its own
business,surely? Unless what goes on is likely to affect us and there has not been a
single shred of proof that there has.

How awful that any man can say such a thing.
How sad it is that any man can grow to adulthood
without developing even a shred of compassion
for his fellow man. How barbaric that any man
can ignore the genocide of hundreds of thousands
of people in another country in the name of
national sovereignty? Why, the very definition
of national sovereignty is perverted by dictators
who enslave and rule by force and murder.
You are claiming you are not affected by mass
murder, slavery and systematic suppression of
opposition but you will holler long and loud when
all this comes home to roost in your country, city,
boatyard? Methinks ye a callous man or a hypocrite.

Could it be that Bubba had to kill lots of innocents to avenge Twin Towers?
He chose Afghanistan until the fear of his soldiers being captured and mutilated
(Afghanis traditionally male rape their prisoners then reach around their throats
and cut them to the verge of decapitation. Ask any Brit soldier who was out there
a century back.) kept them in their Humvees so much they were inciting the contempt
of the Afghanis and arousing concern in your great country. So he took on the much
weaker flyblown desert kingdom of Iraq and wrought mayhem.

Those who side with murderous dictators by saying,
"Leave them alone, what they do in their countries is
no one's business," while they engage in genocide,
develop and use weapons of mass destruction proactively
and even invade neighboring sovereign countries can
hardly expect to garner respect themselves when they
engage in using disrespectful labels such as "Bubba".
Try spending more time on your errant logic and lack of
factual information than your name-calling lest ye be
labeled yourself as unworthy. There comes a time when
men of insight and intelligence throw up their hands in
despair when treating with the hopelessly dense.

Putting aside for a moment the name-calling in the interest
of informing one who needs it badly, may I suggest again
you correct your dearth of facts? Last I looked, the U.S.
and coalition partners still have a significant military
presence in Afghanistan. Things are going well there, the
Taliban are on the run and who knows what's happened to
Mullah Omar and bin Laden. The best that lot seems able
or inclined to do lately is produce dubious audio tapes of
outdated propaganda designed to incite but seemingly
impotent to do so.

If Hitler or Russia had done ten per cent of what Bubba has got up to the world
would be outraged. . As it is he has depreciated American status to the extent your
fellow countrymen are creeping around Europe in disguise, as I well know. One
American bought his yacht in Holland and tried to con me he was Dutch until I
spoke it to him when he confessed hir origin.

Those 'fellow countrymen' who creep and hide are
best advised to stay and hide right where they are
as they lack the backbone necessary to be Americans.
Ex-patriots they should all become. As for American status,
we true Americans have enough grounding in reality to know
full well when the pickings in Europe become slim these
same cowards will come crawling back with their hands out.
And, the same can be said about heads of state when they
find their countries victimized and close to being destroyed
by the same terrorists they errantly think they can appease.
The likes of Chiraq will come crawling and begging (or their
replacement after the original, being summarily dismissed
for poor performance, is but a bad memory!).

Secondly, what is at stake is no sentence without trial by a jury of peers. The essence
of law, its very fundament, is that all men are equal beneath it. Assuming Saddam did
a fraction of what is alleged Bush is outdoing him in spades; bullying, assassinating,
torturing, cutting a swathe of destruction for the next generation of Americans ito
reap in murder and robbery as surely as the rear wheels of the ambulances must follow
the front ones; rising arrogantly above the law far farther than any heathen Pharoah.

What a bunch of flowery rhetoric and incendiary nonsense!
Saddam shall get his trial by his peers right there in Iraq and
his peers will most likely give him death for his ill-deeds. Even
a fool can read enough in the press to see Saddam is guilty of
more than enough to justify his being done away with.

Sadly, when anyone compares President Bush's actions directly
with those of Saddam Hussein and attempts to show whereby
Mr. Bush is the worst of the two it reduces the credibility of
the author of such slander to a great extent. A wiser speaker
or writer would not dig himself such a hole . . .

And the great casualty has been the rule of law. Singlehandedly Bubba has destroyed
the concept that underpins modern civilisation,the singlehanded invention of Europe, for
we did indeed invent civilisation all others being dictatorships of one kind or another:
that there's a book of judicially approved rules and god help the one that doesn't follow
them. You cannot say, as so many are trying to do, that Saddam deserves all he gets because
he didn't follow any. For where is the evidence? It is not enough to slander, libel, insult a
man to make him guilty of terrible crimes. A fact, maybe a single fact, a hard, gritty thing as
all facts are, is needed to incriminate any accused.

The truth of the matter is we can say anything
we choose to say and so can Saddam and so can you.
What really matters, however, is who has the power
and the support to back up what he says with force
and make it stick. The answer to that is easy. It's
not Saddam (failed murdered), it's not France
(failed effete snobs), Germany (failed country
that produced Hitler and the Holocaust), Russia (failed
communist country) and it's not Islam (failed cult).

Make no mistake, America and Americans are going to pay for generations over this, the
crazed mayhem of a Texas hanging governor, the 51% President, the after thought of the
deficient American political process, described in a public notice put up in front of County
Hall by the Mayor of London as,"the greatest threat to humanity this century."

The Mayor of London is a fool. Do you actually
think any notice he posts or any little diatribe
he speaks on the radio matters any more than
a flyspeck? Why is it a certain small, radical
group of people have such a fear of and loathing
for a man who is doing his country proud and
is making the world a safer and more prosper-
ous place in which to live? The cacophony of
coward calls is contrary to freedom, decency
and common sense.

Freedom is not free but must be fought for
with blood and lives. Those of you who think
some book of laws is the answer are living a
lie. The Bible is such a failed book and so is
the Koran. Some United Nations' scribbling
is not even worthy of mention. The ultimate
answer has been, is, and always shall be the
aggressive use of force. The best anyone can
hope for is that the user of said force is just.

If you have an argument and wish to be taken
seriously, the only tack you should take is to
argue that the use of force is and has been
irrational, cruel and counter to freedom. You
will have a very, very difficult time applying
these parameters to United States' policies in
recent years, however.

This is where liberals always come up short.
They argue things in such manner as they see
things and liberals never see things as they
really are because of their indoctrination.
The liberal argument is always based upon
pie-in-the-sky and most of the time it is
laughable in it's failure to address the real
issues.

It has already spurred the creation of the European Armed Force, ridden hard now by France
and Germany leading 388 milliions of the richest and most powerful political and economic bloc
on the planet according to the President of France, M. Chirac, seeking to head America off at the
pass so that its elbowroom to commit these sorts of crimes will be considerably reduced, and in
the near future. America has manifestly grrown too big for its boots. It is due for another pair
and Brussels will surely make them.

The leader of a hypocritical, effete, socialist country,
as I said before has little credibility in his own
country let alone beyond his borders. His real motives
regarding his stand against the war against terrorism
in Iraq are because he stood to loose more than enough
francs to give him a bad and lifelong case of indigestion.
Even thinking his ilk can 'head America off at the pass'
is like thinking the Lone Ranger could head off Sitting Bull
at the pass. No upstart European country has the means
to change America's will to protect herself against
terrorists and even wage a all out war against all of Islam
if that's what it comes to. Let those who don't like it
and side against us feel the wrath of our righteous sword
which is very, very long and sharp, more than sharp
enough to sweep aside any and all puny resistance.

This has been aptly demonstrated in Afghanistan, and
Iraq and the United States of America has not even
broken a sweat doing it. Woe be to any country we
actually decide to wipe out rather than rescue. It
would seem to me those who oppose us should start
thinking a little more clearly. We are strong and we
WILL use what force is necessary to stomp out
terrorists and those who side with terrorists will
certainly not curry our favor.

And should little Bubba in his delirium ever so much as think of dashing the tools from Brussel's
hands the growls of the Russian bear and the hissing of the Chinese dragon will terrify the entire
planet. Also, and never to be discounted simply because they wear robes and turbans, there are over
one billion Muslims daily demonstrating their willingess to die for their faith. They are collectively
richer than several Fort Knoxs, weighing each Aga Kahn, just one minor chieftain, in diamonds then
donating them to him. As I told Mr Bush in a letter he forgot to answer when he was still contemplating
his madness, "Muslims are bees, Mr President. They work hard, keep themselves to themselves, and
produce sweetness. Occasionally malcontents tease them, knock over a hive. Then they run away
laughing. Alas, they are unaware of one terrible fact. An angry bee can fly faster than a running man."

Why do you side with rabble? You are certainly smarter
than that? I suppose you are one of those people who seem
to feel better about themselves when siding with the underdog.
More of that liberal brainwashing that takes a keen intellect
and warps it so that the windows and doors jam?

Fact: The EU is unworkable. Russia is a failed communist country.
China is more interested in economics than war at the present.
One billion Muslims don't represent a problem at all. There
is a small minority of radical fundamentalist Muslims who ARE
a problem but, thanks to the United States of America and
her allies (over sixty countries at last count), these have been
put on notice that their days are numbered.

These 'brave' Muslims who run away and hide in caves and
holes in the ground are no real threat. They are only a small
infection that is being cauterized. How any man can see Muslims
as brave need only look at pictures of Saddam Hussein being
plucked by his lice-ridden beard out of his hidey hole,
bleary-eyed and begging for mercy, to glean the real truth of
the matter - the instinct for survival trumps religious
indoctrination most every time. Even Muslim radicals know this
or why else do they have a remote backup detonator on their
car bombs in case the driver and occupants get cold feet?
Why else do their leaders hide in holes? C'MON, swabbie,
grow up and smell the cordite!

Knowing all this for certain sure Saddam must be smiling in his miserable cell. His aim was to defeat
America in the way all little people have defeated giants since before David and Goliath. By guile. And
surely he has succeeded, his stone having sunk so deep into the forehead of the Statue of Liberty she
is tottering.

Saddam is bowing and scraping to the east several
times a day begging for mercy he knows will not be
forthcoming. The man is kneeling with one knee in
the grave and he knows it.

The Statue of Liberty is smiling as her foundation block
grows larger and more dense day by day and now she
overlooks the beginnings of construction on a new, taller
World Trade Center. God bless George W. Bush and all
other men of honor who value freedom.

May some friend of America end this criminal maniac's life before he despoils ours.

Fear not, my dear man, your insanity is still curable provided
you reject the brainwashing your liberal education has instilled
in you. There is yet time for you to learn how the world really
operates and who operates it. In the meantime, enjoy the freedom
you and your comrades have not earned but still enjoy because
of the sacrifice of brave men, honorable and patriotic Americans.

Respectfully,
Capt. Neal