>From oracle@dodo.pp.se Thu Nov 14 01:01:50 1996 Received: from dialup108-8-7.swipnet.se (dialup108-8-7.swipnet.se [130.244.108.167]) by gaia.swip.net (8.7.6swip/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA25677; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:01:46 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <328A615A.2487@dodo.pp.se> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 01:01:30 +0100 X-UIDL: 847929785.000 From: Zenon Panoussis X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 [nl] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology CC: grady@northcoast.com, hkhenson@netcom.com, dm@dma.se, hkk@netcom.com, Zenon Panoussis Subject: Speaker Dahl's answer to Moorhead References: <328811E0.4FBF@dodo.pp.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: U X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Again: in order to really grasp the extent of Moorhead's insult, you have to have some insight in diplomatic language. It's full of compliments here and compliments there and silk-smooth and all nastiness between the lines and never on them. Parliament to parliament should be on a slightly more natural, straight-forward level, but just slightly. Moorhead's letter contained the statement that our parliament is commiting a criminal act no less than five times in one and a half page. It also contained plain-language demands in a tone unheard of. The tone of his letter surpasses the most vicious note of protest on the most serious of international conflict. The answer should be seen in the same light: as laconic and straight-forward as it could be within the limits of decency. What it says between the lines is "shove it". Here goes: ============================================================== THE SWEDISH PARLIAMENT THE SPEAKER KK2-446-96/97 October 31, 1996 Dear Fellow Parliamentarian, Mr. Carlos J. Moorhead, Referring to your letter of October 28, I want to inform you that the Chamber Office in the Swedish Parliament has been handling the documents of the Church of Scientology strictly accordingly to the Swedish Constitution. This is, of course, the only way the Swedish Parliament could deal with this matter. Sincerely, [signature] Birgitta Dahl ============================================================== Unfortunately Moorhead is probably too dense to understand any of the brutality of his own letter or the subtlety of the answer. Maybe some American citizen should send a question about party and foreign policy discipline to the Republican leader and the secretary of state respectively. I have forwarded both letters to the press. Z --- oracle@everywhere: The ephemeral source of the eternal truth...