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[Sashadroogie]

I know a few Scotts in Moscow... Even the umbrella-wielding Bulgarians give 'em a wide berth...

[geaaronson]

[quote][quote]No doubt currently teaching EFL in some very shady location, without any quals, and with a bevy of scrawny locals at his beck and call. Heading for disaster and giving the industry a bad name [/quote

More likely he`s the owner of a language school. I wonder whatever happened to all those bad boys with whom I went to school. Have they all been mobbed up by now?

[Captain_Fil]

It's much worse than we thought:

http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-23/news/29466700_1_tsa-spokeswoman-ann-davis-child-pornography-federal-agents

Can you imagine that guy patting down a kid?

[johnslat]

Dear Captain_Fil,

It almost always is -

"A British registered sex-offender who used a false University degree obtained in the Khao San Road to get a job in a temple school in suburban Bangkok was being held at the Immigration Detention Centre last night.

Alan Thomas Smith, 54, from Accrington, Lancashire, was seized after leaving the Nong Yai temple school in Sai Mai, North Bangkok, where he had obtained a job teaching English.

He claimed falsely in his job application that he had previously worked for UNICEF � the United Nations Children�s Fund, had a degree from Manchester University � and produced a reference for his good behaviour between 2001 and 2006 by a British security company."


But thank God we don't let an isolated instance taint everyone who works in the field.

Regards,
John

[artemisia]

[Denizen]

'Reasonable suspicion' is the key phrase. We've heard little about any foiled aircraft bombers among, for example white grandmothers, middle class black children, Asian high schoolers, ex-beauty queens and most of the make up of suburban America. Once we do, then, IMHO, the mass screenings are justified.

[BadBeagleBad]

[johnslat]

Dear Denizen,

"'Reasonable suspicion' is the key phrase. We've heard little about any foiled aircraft bombers among, for example white grandmothers, middle class black children, Asian high schoolers, ex-beauty queens and most of the make up of suburban America. Once we do, then, IMHO, the mass screenings are justified."

Well, of course we all know that there are no terorists among the groups mentioned above; it would be unreasonable to think so.

But . . . but golly gee. What if the REAL terrorsts know that? Mightn't they take advantage of our "profiling?" Naw, they're just not that smart, right?

[Denizen]

Johnslat,

According to Dictionary.com, terrorism defined is the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. 'They' have succeeded in making this nation a paranoid, fearful, freedom-inhibiting institution where no one, no one is above suspicion. Should we continue on this path, watching each other from our windows and restaurant seats, 'See, then Report' as Napolitano dictates?

Israel, one in the eye of the storm copes without massive public coercion. As they have, we can certainly train receptive agents in airports and train stations to sense the dangers we face from people bent on our destruction. We don't need, again IMHO, to plan for and expect the terrorist recruitment of Aunt Agnes and little Billy. Otherwise, we will eventually pay for our total security with total imprisonment.

[johnslat]

Dear Denizen,

It's not paranoia when they're really out to get you. I, for one, would rather put up with precautions than count on Aunt Agnes and Little Billy always being harmless.

Regards,
John

[Denizen]

Then John, we agree to disagree. In the end, though, it is more likely that you will have exactly what you want.

[johnslat]

Dear Denizen,

In the end? Well, as John Maynard Keynes put it, "In the long run, we're all dead."

Regards,
John

[Kornan DeKobb]