On 4 Nov 2001, at 0:04, Jim Choate wrote:
And you're naive.
It appeared extreme to a minority of people then. The fact it happened once is enough to make sure it DOESN'T happen AGAIN, not even once is acceptable. Unfortunately this isn't an isolated case. They are not kicking kids out of school for wearing 'anarchy' t-shirts and wanting to form an 'anarchy club' in school. Both acceptable behaviour in America (spelled with a 'c', not a 'k').
Besides, if this guardsman was as naive as you say how did he know who she was? As I understood it her name was on a list.
Think about that, on a list...
You're an apologistic idiot.
You may be right, I may be naive and I may be an apologistic idiot. Your mention of the list and the guardsman being aware of this horrible threat coming through the airport were assumed but my thought was it was a local redneck or folks in a vigilante mood. It would appear this person was targeted. When such folks take actions like this there is a reaction, ie - the victim had it written up in a press release/article and the guardsman and airport appear pretty stupid. Hopefully the victim of this epsode, and others of similar episodes, will take legal action and sue. Hopefully the American system will retain this ability. I once lived in a society where everything I did was recorded. I was a foreigner and I expected it. I got picked up in a business related deal and the officers started the interrogation by telling me what they knew of my existence, they knew everything. My long work hours were interpretted as an attempt to cook the books. They knew every detail of my personal life. I was guilty because I was an eager beaver, had to be.... In western liberal democracies we believe we have lots of freedom. Cross the wrong people and your name is on a list. You are naive if you for any moment thought this was not the case. It isn't right but it is reality. Hopefully in the long run we are moving to a system which is more open and free. We aren't there yet, hopefully after the excesses of this current crack-down we will move on to a better status quo. The whims of society and government tend to oscillate in a sine wave manner, from one extreme to the other. The current trend is to a dark side, from a national government point of view. They are going to do a lot of stupid things which will take some time to correct. It is wrong and bad but I can't do much to stop it. I can call or write my local elected representitives but they are trendiods which go along with current trends. Virtually Raymond D. Mereniuk Raymond@fbn.bc.ca History of a Telco, A Fairy Tale http://www.fbntech.con/telcohis.html