From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 17 11:56:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12429 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12411 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id LAA00727; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:57:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980617115708.42902@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:57:08 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Frank Pawlak , malte@webmore.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Subject: Re: Funny, but true... References: <980616003156.ZM3307@darkstar.connect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <980616003156.ZM3307@darkstar.connect.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 12:31:56AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 June 1998 at 0:31:56 +0000, Frank Pawlak wrote: > > The end result is that if you are a citizen of a foreign country, and don't > belong to any of those classes of people, you are entirely welcome to enter, > visit, and enjoy the USA. If you are a person of such stature that has a > problem truthfully answering those questions, I'm not so sure that I'd want you > here either. Be it paradoxical or not, mission acomplished. No problems with that. > Whether or not the State Department is paranoid or not, personally I'd prefer > that they were a little paranoid. I wouldn't. Paranoids tend to behave irrationally. Suspicious, yes, but not paranoid. > As I stated, there are citizens of other countries, rightly or > wrongly, that don't hold Americans or the USA in high esteem. We > really don't need outsiders doing World Trade Center bombings or > opening up with an AK47 and hosing the shit out of a bunch innocent > civilians just to get their rocks off. Don't expect silly questions on forms to stop that class of people. The main thing that's stopping them is their own lack of intelligence--an serious concern when you think it out. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message