Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:09:20 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Surprising call to guard civil liberties; review WHY it happened!
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:44:21 -0700
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu (Dave Farber), Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>,
  freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Subject: surprising call to guard civil liberties; review WHY it happened!

>Bob Barr, conservative Georgia congressman, said:

>

>"Before we begin dismantling constitutionally protected safeguards

>  and diminishing fundamental rights to privacy, we should first

>  examine why last week's attacks occurred."

>

>http://hillsource.house.gov/barr/newsdescr.asp?N=20010918080659


On the one hand, I APPLAUD his VERY unexpected stand.

Vengeance begats nothing more than more vengeance.

We desperately need to understand WHY so many people around the world 
HATE the USA with such a vengeance (it *ain't* just that we have 
money; it's what we have done to them -- and what we have 
aided/supported others to do to them!).

We need to BREAK the cycle of vengeance -- if ANYONE is to have any 
peace and security.  (It is now obviously in our own, selfish, 
SELF-centered best interest, to make sure that others have peace and 
security in THEIR homes and homelands, just as we used to have it.)


On the other hand, I can't help but suspect that Barr's stand may be 
at least partly because he probably has VERY few Israeli supporters 
among his constituents ... but almost-certainly has a HEFTY herd of 
racist/anti-semitic constituents.  <sigh> Politics as usual.

--jim



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