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Posted by Aunty Agony
 - Jul 07, 2017, 03:42 PM
Quote from: Arkhangelsk on Jul 06, 2017, 11:45 PMAunty is the poster I most respect on this forum
You make Aunty blush and giggle and drop her pencil.

Quote from: Arkhangelsk on Jul 06, 2017, 11:45 PMI regret taking our conversation down that silly path
Well, I took it as more of an offhand remark than a moral position statement, and tried to respond in the same tone.

Divided loyalty is a serious subject, though. Unless a person hides in a cave, his loyalty naturally gets stretched over his multiple associations and group memberships. And it can be very difficult to know what to do when your best friends are fighting each other, or when a family member is seriously antisocial, or when your country is visiting war on the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

So Aunty also regrets the silly conversation, because to anyone who is currently entangled in such a loyalty dilemma, it probably wasn't very funny.
Posted by Ex Member
 - Jul 06, 2017, 11:45 PM
Yeah, I see what you mean after I reread the post. It just kind of got my goat when she did that. But, true I do not know the whole story. I regret taking our conversation down that silly path. If the truth be known, Aunty is the poster I most respect on this forum.
Posted by Aunty Agony
 - Jul 06, 2017, 12:06 PM
Quote from: Arkhangelsk on Jul 05, 2017, 11:25 PMI just think that one should not publicly disparage a family member.
QuoteHe has even tried to assassinate my integrity-all because I didn't do what he wanted me too.
According to Barbara Wissler, her half-brother publicly attacked her first. (Of course we only have the one sentence in a longer post, but she did say it, so that's what I am responding to.)

Posted by Ex Member
 - Jul 05, 2017, 11:25 PM
Aunty, I am joking. I am not a mafioso. I just think that one should not publicly disparage a family member.
Posted by Ex Member
 - Jul 03, 2017, 04:04 PM
Maybe they will have better luck than Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa.
Posted by Aunty Agony
 - Jul 03, 2017, 02:58 PM
Quote from: Arkhangelsk on Jul 03, 2017, 12:15 AM"Occhi aperti, mano sul coltello"
Yes, but who is the knife for? Your brother when he has murdered an innocent, or the carabinieri when they come to arrest him?
Posted by Ex Member
 - Jul 03, 2017, 12:15 AM
When it comes to family Aunty, I live by a different code.

"Occhi aperti, mano sul coltello"
Posted by Aunty Agony
 - Jul 02, 2017, 11:31 PM
Quote from: Arkhangelsk on Jul 02, 2017, 11:39 AM
Quote from: AuntyAgony on Jul 02, 2017, 11:03 AM
Loyalty to your country trumps loyalty to your family, if your family is treasonous and vile.
Then you deal with it within your family. I would never publicly disparage a family member, even for murder. But, I would then go back home and kick his ass behind closed doors.
Then you would be a vigilante.

You do not have the authority to prosecute and sanction murderers, traitors, or other criminals. In most cases, if you punish a criminal yourself instead of reporting him to the authorities, you become an accessory. Society would probably understand, if the offense is not capital and not serious, but you'd have no legal defense and would be depending on judicial mercy.
Posted by Ex Member
 - Jul 02, 2017, 11:39 AM
Quote from: AuntyAgony on Jul 02, 2017, 11:03 AM
Loyalty to your country trumps loyalty to your family, if your family is treasonous and vile.
Then you deal with it within your family. I would never publicly disparage a family member, even for murder. But, I would then go back home and kick his ass behind closed doors.
Posted by Aunty Agony
 - Jul 02, 2017, 11:03 AM
Quote from: Arkhangelsk on Jul 01, 2017, 09:50 PM
QuoteHenry Mungle, I ashamed to admit, is my brother.
You should be ashamed alright. Any problems you have with your brother should be between you and him. To go public and denigrate your own flesh and blood is over the top.
Loyalty to your country trumps loyalty to your family, if your family is treasonous and vile.
Posted by xenonman
 - Jul 02, 2017, 08:34 AM
Quote from: Arkhangelsk on Jul 01, 2017, 09:50 PMAny problems you have with your brother should be between you and him. To go public and denigrate your own flesh and blood is over the top.

Yes, but I do admire her candor. 8-)
Posted by Ex Member
 - Jul 01, 2017, 09:50 PM
QuoteHenry Mungle, I ashamed to admit, is my brother.
You should be ashamed alright. Any problems you have with your brother should be between you and him. To go public and denigrate your own flesh and blood is over the top.
Posted by xenonman
 - Jul 01, 2017, 08:36 PM
QuoteJust be grateful that you don't have to deal with him ever again!

Might make an ideal golfing buddy for Quickfix! ;D :D
Posted by xenonman
 - Jul 01, 2017, 08:33 PM
QuoteThis is the examiner that had me falsly booted from the FBI Seattle office for terrorism, I spent 4 years in Afghanistan, he can fuck off. I now work minimum wage with a TS/SCI. Words cannot express....

I wonder why he left the CIA?  It appears as if he would have been an ideal employee there.    ::)
Posted by xenonman
 - Jul 01, 2017, 08:26 PM
Quote"Special" Agent Mungle is one of the biggest jokes I have encountered in my entire life.

Rhymes with "bungle" ! ;D