Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:18:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Peter Lockhart <peter@key.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <3BB0CA62.B1F189A9@mindspring.com> References: <NFBBJPHLGLNJEEECOCHAGEDNCEAA.deuce@lordlegacy.org> <3BAC3644.1CB0C626@mindspring.com> <xzp66abb7pz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3BAD1FAE.2F3D40F5@mindspring.com> <20010923011557.B60374@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <015e01c143c8$c93505a0$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> <015d01c14519$80553010$3309f540@bigsky>
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Peter Lockhart wrote: > A poll on that bastion of unbiased news reporting otherwise known as CNN, > reported about 87% of Americans polled supporting whatever action Bush > proposed. The vast majority of American citizens I'm sure, almost oblivious > of the fact that Bin Laden was on their payroll only a few years earlier. If my former employee shoots my neighbor, I'm not going to care whether he was my former employee or not. > Of course what the public thinks doesn't (necessarily) drive what Bush does, > but it makes it awful hard for him to say "Uh sorry, we were barking up the > wrong tree" if real evidence identified another culprit. I think any responsible party whose body could be dragged through the streets would work; we aren't that committed to bin Laden being the bad guy, as we are to getting the real bad guy. > And with the > citizen's scrutiny away from their own government's previous actions, it > means they're more ready to accept reduced civil liberties (which I see > people are already prepared to do judging by a few polls floating around). These people are morons. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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