From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 25 11:23:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A9037B403 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.141.174.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.141.174]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8PIHMW22056; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BB0CA62.B1F189A9@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:18:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Lockhart Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror References: <3BAC3644.1CB0C626@mindspring.com> <3BAD1FAE.2F3D40F5@mindspring.com> <20010923011557.B60374@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <015e01c143c8$c93505a0$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> <015d01c14519$80553010$3309f540@bigsky> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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