04-09-2011, 09:29 AM
It's probably precisely because it's so quiet and boring that such nefariousness goes on within Belgium. The quieter it is, the easier it is to blend in...maybe.
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Quiet and boring Belgium [trust me, I know from experience!] certainly comes up with some very 'interesting' scandals and players in things that go beyond its tiny borders... Maybe it is selected just because it seems like a place no one would look at twice....or maybe because its populace is not all so quiet and innocuous.....
To me, it seems like a 'gumbo' of several other scandal M.O.'s
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"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely." - Hunter S. Thompson
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." - William S. Burroughs