I hate to say this, but

Last warning -

Please keep this thread on point or it will be shut down.

No matter what country you are from, or what your political opinions are of other countries politics, please remember that we are all supposed to be friends here, and personal attacks will not be tolerated.

And that includes rants about the rightness or wrongness of ANY countries political positions or actions.

As someone who has lived for years on four different continents, in six countries, I could make some lengthy and pointed comments about spin, but I won't. Suffice it to say that no country is all right, or all wrong. And it very much depends on YOUR OPINION whether it's right or wrong. And who's to say you're right anyway - there's an enormous amount of lies and spin out there, from all countries, and NONE of us have a corner on the REAL truth. The only truth we can rely on is what we see with our own eyes - and that is coloured by our own experiences in life, and where and how we were raised.

So please, let's keep the political rants and attempts to convert others to our way of thinking out of here. If you want to do that, fine, but please do it over a in a pub somewhere interesting.

The question here for us as motorcycle travellers is in essence:

-How to deal with the question of displaying our flags on our bikes - bad idea, or good idea?

-How do we deal with different nationalities opinions of us, good or bad?

-Do we pretend to be from another country if necessary, or just keep a low profile?

-Do we need to AVOID some countries simply BECAUSE of our nationality?


The obvious one, was it right for the scum (you can tell my opinion here) to run GlobalGS off the road, or pile crap on his seat, is easy.

I don't think anyone here would abuse anyone from any country if they were travelling through their own country, regardless of politics, so let's have some respect for others opinions and sensibilities here.

thanks!

Grant

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