RE: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?

["Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF]" <onguyen@pica.army.mil>]

sONC,
I completely agree with you.  not all janitors are thieves or poor people
are thieves also not having leica.  I have 2 leicas now.  one is M6TTL and
another is an R8.  I am not a doctor, not a lawyer, or any business man at
all or professional photographer (i wish one day i would be) but i still own
leica stuff.  

It is just depend on how personality of each person to be a thieves instead
of all poor people or not intelligence.

My parents use to work really hard as an assembler and janitor to support me
4 years in college (for my room and board + extra money for books and food)
and they never still anything from anyone.  nor they are not intelligence.
both of my parents are very educated people.  they could not get a job in US
because when they came to US, they already old.  instead of go school again
and fight so hard for more book to retake the degree, they sacrify
themselves for me and my sisters in order we young kids has a better future.
Not all poor people are thieves or not intelligence or not own a leica.  or
LEICA ARE OWN BY HIGH CLASS OR WHAT EVER.  IT IS JUST A BEAUTIFUL TOOL FOR
SOME ONE WHO LIKE IT. 
Olivier
- -----Original Message-----
From: Sonny Carter [mailto:sonc@gmx.net]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:34 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?


Thanks, B.D.
     I earned the money for my first 35mm camera by cleaning
the floors in stairwells of apartment buildings in Germany.
It never crossed my "poor dim-witted"  mind to steal  to get
the camera.
    I was not a wealthy ex-pat; my father was a non-com in
the Air Force during the Cold War in the early 60's.

Regards,
SonC
http://www.sonc.com



- ----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?


>
>
> Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> The type of people who work cleaning toilets and/or
> > steal the property of others tend to be poor and
dim-witted,
>
> Yes, people who work cleaning toilets and who out of
desperation steal
> the property of others tend to be poor, but to suggest
that they are
> dim-witted because they are poor or clean toilets is a
truly repulsive,
> vile, classist thing to say that tells us a great deal
about you.
>
> There are plenty of people on this list who at one time or
another
> worked at jobs that were the equivalent of cleaning
toilets, or had
> parents or grandparents who did.
>
> Just who the hell do you think you are, Anthony, to make
this kind of
> statement. Boy, was Kyle on the mark when he pointed out
that there are
> people who think that they are somehow "special" because
they own
> Leicas.
>
> B. D.
>