Wednesday, March 09, 2005

The true face of the Commission (part 2)

In this bizarre statement Mr. Jones, who e-mailed the Metric Martyrs Defence Fund's e-mail address with an unsolicited foul and abusive e-mail accuses me of insulting him!
Is this the true face of the European Commission? Not the nice, soft, people friendly approach of Margot Wallstrom's blog...but the true arrogant and offensive hatred which lurks beneath the surface. Hatred of anyone that dare attempt to challenge or disagree with 'their Project.'
The final response to him will be posted above.

From: John.Jones@cec.eu.int
To: metricmartyrs@btconnect.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:45 PM
Subject: RE:

I have just read you email as I have not been reading emails since Monday.

You insist on continuing with this dialogue.
Expecting anyone to apologise 'by return' is a bit short notice, and apart from using a swear word there is nothing to apologise for.

I obviously don't understand 'what it's all about' because my remarks about people holding up progress being luddities is true not only of this time in our history but of the past as well.

What I obviously do not understand is why your organisation politicises and attempts to frustrate what should have been in essence a simple changeover in the national interest as with decimal currency (perhaps you oppose that too).

I clearly do not understand the point of wishing to perpetuate the current mess of units of weight and measurement that are found in the country today. Two generations have suffered already, and children leaving school with a a complete metric education but coming out into a parallel world will be the next to suffer.

So, perhaps you are right and I don't understand 'what it's all about' - at least not what you are trying to achieve over this particular issue.

We'll see who history proves to be right - and thanks.

Now perhaps you'd like to aplogise for insulting me!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ahh!! The British sense of humour.

I think this bloke must be barking.

Anonymous said...

My first thought was that he was under the influence of some mind-altering substance...

My second thought was that this man is supposed to be representing someone or something - I don't want it to be me.

Anonymous said...

How many more of these idiots are "employed" by the EU?
The metric system is an artificial construct dreamed up, "and I do mean that sincerely, folks" by one Boneparte, Napoleon of that ilk. The metre was based on some portion of the arc between two places in - France of course. Now it is defined by some factor of the wave length of something or other. I was using both systems in the late forties but not for groceries.
Derek Buxton. Stockport.

Anonymous said...

No doubt the enforcement of the metric system on a people who do not want it is the same as the French using the gillotine to clear the country of all oposition after the revolution or Stalin removing all opposition to goolags, The EU is a dictatorship run for the benifit of a few officials and the unrepresentative so called MEPs most of whoom now come from former dictatorships and are used to doing as they are told.

John Barton Alnwick

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