[IP] more on What's in that bottle ?
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: July 19, 2006 5:02:59 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on What's in that bottle ?
A "security conscious" friend of mine has just told me about recent
incidents in rural upstate New Hampshire where people are being
detained at roadblocks for hours. Apparently there have also been
a rash of increased cases of false ID at the border.
Does this kind of crap -- and the "Border" Patrol's PERMANENT highway
bottle-necks, HUNDREDS of miles INSIDE the USA in the southwest --
cause anyone else, other'n me, to flash-back to all those World War
II movies, about the American prisoners escaping, and fearfully
approaching all the SS and Gestapo check-points, along roads and at
rail stations?
Same for the machinegun-toting police- and military-uniformed patrols
that are now so common in airport terminals. As though anyone
actually BELIEVED that vile terrorists would attempt an armed frontal
assault to take a commercial plane off the tarmac. [Remember that
the 9/11 terrorists hadn't even trained in the much more difficult
task of taking-off or landing.]
With all this, plus a President who declares that he will
unilaterally decide which laws he will abide by, and which ones he
will feel free to ignore ... how close HAVE we come, to being just
another authoritarian dictatorship, much too similar to the one where
the roadblock and railway and airport guards were called SS and Gestapo?
How much of our freedoms -- and presumption of innocence -- must we
loose, before it becomes clear that Bin Laden is WINNING in his
efforts to destroy the USA as we once knew it?
--jim
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