On Saturday, September 15, 2001, at 02:07 PM, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:

I fail to see any truly effective measures that can be taken to prevent determined attackers from committing acts of terrorism. The only course of action, I believe, is to eliminate their desire to commit these attacks.

Harry Browne's essay[1] points out things we could have done to remove the (suspected) motivation for this (and other possible) political terroristic attacks. Tim May has made similar points. [1] http://www.antiwar.com/orig/browne2.html

Thanks very much for the reference to the Harry Browne essay...I endorse every bit of it. (I first encountered Harry Browne in 1973 when I read his book "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World." I had just voted for John Hospers, the first Libertarian Party candidate the year earllier, the first year the new LP ran a slate of candidates. This was back, almost 30 years ago, when I still had a little bit of faith in the process of voting and democracy.) Not much I can add to Browne's essay except to point out that these united states are made up of people trading, inventing, building, and interacting. We refer to the "states," but even this gives too much emphasis to the role of government. The "state" I have lived in for 35 years is the sixth or seventh largest economy in the world. I ask you this: If California and New York and Texas and a dozen other regions were independent, libertarian trading regions, with no gunboats sent to rescue ZOG occupiers in Palestine and no armies sent to Europe to fight their war for them, and no police forces in Somalia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Croatia, Korea, and a dozen other hellholes, WOULD THE ATTACK HAVE OCCURRED? It's time to decentralize. Since peaceful attempts have failed, maybe other approaches need to be used. --Tim May