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19 April 2009
Brunei, Borneo Island
Monday morning I plan to visit some natives in a jungle in Borneo. They still hunt using blowguns and poison darts, I’m told. And their ancestors were headhunters. The Iban are said to be very friendly these days, but make no mistake: Borneo is wild country.
So Sunday evening, I headed for a walk on a short jungle path in town to practice with some new camera gear that I bought in Malaysia for use in Afghanistan. That’s when this man came walking by. Check out the T-shirt. Borneo is about as far from Florida as you can go without using a space rocket. Like the other folks I’ve been meeting here, this gentleman was very pleasant and allowed me to make a photo. He said he’d never been to Florida.
Coincidentally, there was an article in a local paper today about two men who were caught with firearms and ammunition. The sentences include a caning and two long prison sentences. If we had laws like this in the United States, I’d probably get several life sentences. At least I’d be locked up with a lot of my friends.
And caning is a serious beating. As with Singapore, crime is vanishingly low in Brunei. Especially so compared to the crime that many of us experience in the United States. The real world provides copious thought-fodder.
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Comments
Miri, Malaysia is nearly a 2nd home, having been there on at least 15 trips, some lasting 6 weeks. The people there are wonderful. But DO BEHAVE, I've seen caning demonstrations and you DO NOT want to experience that!
Max.
Saw some information that is interesting on Fox News with Huckabee - The United States of America has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the prision population in the world. So provide us some insight on that one. They also announced on ABC and Fox news that Atlanta now appears to be a major hub for Mexican Drug Cartel staging and distribution. The POTUS seemed to have painted himself into a corner where the only answer to the Drug Problem and gun running along with money laundering is "law and order" enforcement. I do not know how it can be otherwise. It will get interesting.
Don to Yon
There are a number of U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Projects that I think you'd find of interest.
God forbid we allow ourselves to be legislated our of our constitutional right to bear arms...and God please see we are smart enough to prevent the coniving methods of the Obama administration and our "leaders" in congress. The only thing I've seen transparant in this new administration....is the back door approach intended to dismantle our rights to protect ourselves....meanwhile leaving us and our country wide open to people who wish us nothing but animosity free flowing over our porous borders.
Jai 1 RGR!
...or maybe I'm wrong and it was a T-shirt straw purchase?
Damn the NRA, we need to reinstate the ban on US assault T-shirts b/c they harm innocent Borneoans!
As he clearly doesn't weigh enough to hang out with the cowboy action guys, guess he went back to the island.
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