----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: Re: Technique
> I was going to make one more point here. From what I read here, > there > seems to be a viewpoint that the risk posed by terrorist operating > inside > the US as well as the risk posed by "rouge nations" is not at all as > serious as is portrayed. I myself do not feel threatened by Gaymanistan or Traansexuvaal or Londonfairy (The Axis Of Fashionsense). The real enemy is those lezbeens. (The Axis Of Lipstick And Flannel) They are after our wimmin! The opinions of others may however vary.<G> > The US has little to fear from external enemies, > the real enemies of our liberty are internal...and mostly in the > Bush > administration. Further, what risks do exist can best be adressed by > better > US behavior. > Excuse me for intruding on your question here, but I see an interesting if not obvious insight. I think that for a lot of people, the enemy is obvious. We know that Mrs. Smith from Peoria does not need to be strip searched before boarding a plane, and yet that happens too often. Akbar from Pasadena is also quite likely to be above suspicion, but he gets the same treatment at the airport Mrs. Smith does and both are treated in a fashion similar to Abdul who has been in Afghanistan and Sudan recently. And Mssr. Lourdes from Paris is in a huff over being fingerprinted upon entering the US. And yet "a lot of people" know who the enemy is. I think you can make a good argument that the terrorists have won ~something~. They have caused us to volunteer to give up some freedom and convenience. If *I* have to be searched to travel from Houston to Memphis or Atlanta, then we have given up something. And I don't think this exact method of protection has actually made us safer than some less rigorous method would or could....... Unless one considers Mrs. Smith from Peoria to be a serious threat. xponent Fragile Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
