OT: Here we go again ...

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:02:14 -0700
Ted Ozolins <ted1 at telus.net> wrote:

> Kurt Wall wrote:
> > Quoth Collins Richey:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > My last post in this thread.
> 
> dito
> > 
> > 
> >>Except for the Oklahoma City incident, I can't think of a single terrorist
> >>activity in the past 10 years that was not perpetrated by young Arab/Moslem
> >>males.  If the US government is detaining non-citizens of "middle eastern
> >>descent," that is unfortunate but maybe necessary.  The bastards who created
> >>9/11 were certainly of "middle eastern descent," and I would think that even
> >you>would wish that they had been detained!  If the US government is
> >detaining US>citizens, that is another matter entirely. Even in that case, if
> >these people>have proven associations with terrorist organizations, I have no
> >problem with>that.
> > 
> > 
> > How long before they come for *you*, Collins?
> > 
> > Kurt
> Dang it Kurt, you beat me to the punch! Amen to that.
> 

I, too, shall have to retire from this thread.  I must say that Dep's reply was
best.  You gentlemen may believe as you wish.  The forces of evil in the world
are the ones who are coming for us.  These forces don't care whether you now
have only 50% of the rights you used to have.  These forces want to see smoking
hulks like the trade center everywhere in America and to remove 100% of your
rights, most especially those of women.  The Homeland Security agency and the
other security agencies are now working better together, and that comforts me.  
They (Homeland Security) are not and will not be coming for you and me.  They
have the thankless task of protecting you and me from those who hate us.

How long would it take before the next attack, if the policy of screening
"people of middle eastern descent" were dropped?  I certainly would not feel
safer or freer.  If the record were such that recent atrocities were committed
exlusively by bald headed old men with beards (like myself), I would still want
the agency to screen to the profile.

I agree with Franklin et al. that freedom is important, but which is better -
half a loaf or no loaf at all?  Unless the Homeland Security agents do their
work well, the Mullahs would be all too happy to see that we get no loaf at
all.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.