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Post #41,737 by bepatient 6/9/02 3:25:12 PM Reply	Whatever I guess Lieberman doesn't understand it either. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #41,754 by Ashton 6/9/02 5:19:35 PM Reply	[Contest!] ___ Such 'plans' are not Meant to be understood, they are intended just to comfort with slogans about "theSafetyoftheMuricanPeepul", no matter how ineffectively. Ignoring the ever-unwanted side effects all around, is relatively easy for a theologically-motivated Admin such as this one proves to be, on its record. (There's a certain fatalism which appears to comfort o'erweeningly, those who imagine Gawd Be on Our Side; so never mind actually Thinking about root causes n'such - y'know?) Some may think that Gawd will work out the division between C\ufffdsar \|and\| Her, as in, not-to-worry.. Others prefer retention of the Constitutional separation of personal fanciful musings and The State. I wonder why it is that, Republicrats (Democans?) so frequently manage to come up with proposals which insult the intelligence of a guinea hen - meanwhile it's coming up on 7 months since the dastardly deed. Has this all just been paralysis by analysis? [Contest!] C'mon BeeP: craft us a workable Plan already! - enough of these amateur Pols with eyes on the Prize. We need something Clever AND Constitutional, and with some vague chance of actually allowing individual intelligence to aid effective noticing of weirdness which suggests malevolence. And a means for separating-out the inevitable cockamamie Alarmists from.. the shrewdly Observant folk. (Hey, it's OK if it is also Economically feasible too ;-) Trying to spell-out in great detail, what we are supposed to be vigilant about is to: focus on the box-cutters and airplanes as if... So.. how do we legislate the umm "unleashing of Native American Intelligence" with the words Democrat- Republican- completely eliminated from the prose? [/Contest] Ashton
Post #41,784 by bepatient 6/10/02 12:15:22 AM Reply	Mental... gamesmanship, eh? Craft us a plan that would make those thoughtful Americans actually notice a bomb being constructed next door...without actually having someone invade their "personal space". Rationally explain how you can defend against the irrational...and while your at it...solve World Peace(tm). Is time travel an alternative? You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #41,787 by Ashton 6/10/02 1:02:56 AM Reply	So then perhaps you even agree (!) That there is no plan which could reliably (80%? 90%? but are those Good enough for a nuke?) 'prevent' the aberrrant homo-sap from striking, since: no one could possibly list infinite possibilities [??] (Creating a locked-down fascist State is not a viable option, we see.) OK - if that's the case, then we may have no alternative to learning how to effectively address the root causes, once there's a certain semi-agreement upon the first 25, say. Where no defense is possible, 'offense' is not the only response, even if it is the automatic one. Alas, this would prove much more difficult than - throwing techno amd LOTS of $$$ at the selected target du jour, and pretending that escalated violence will lead to anything other than: further escalated violence. Will we have to go to this mode only AFTER the first really hideous next event? History suggests: yes. Most sadly. (Unless.. something New occurs in the perennial Israel/Palestine madness -- which points a direction for defuzing our own position as well ??) Some homo-saps had best devise Something New soon, and before India/Pakistan events produce that panic which leads to spasm war. It's a time to wish that we had a few wise people near that button - but we don't. Just Pols, inarticulate ones at that. \ufffd Hermann Kahn, eons ago. Ashton Nope, don't see a plan that ain't the Same-old same old.. random acts of bestiality - anywhere.
Post #41,797 by Brandioch 6/10/02 2:14:59 AM Reply	Two options. Or is it three? #1. Attempt to solve it via root cause. #2. Continue with the same plan that has failed for how many years? #3. Surrender our freedoms with the knowledge that we're still not doing anything to stop them? Personally, if we can't stop them, I'd feel better facing death with my freedoms intact. I'd hate to end up fighting both the terrorists AND my government.
Post #41,868 by Ashton 6/10/02 5:24:51 PM Reply	Precisely. Agreed. As to #3: (Even I..) believe that Murica ain't so universally ovine that an inexorable tide towards a Security Theocracy could proceed as slickly as - those with the brains of a Dubya, a Cheney or an Ashcroft (obviously) suppose. I have no illusions of belonging to "a plurality" - but I have no doubt whatsoever that - I represent a minority which is neither small nor unmotivated. The rationale for actual anti-Government action resides firmly in the wording of the Constitution; that is phrased not as an 'option' but as a Duty: whenever a government has committed actions which are prohibited in that Constitution. 'My Group\ufffd' would be a subset (superset?) of those who have read this document with comprehension and recognize what 'Duty' might mean. Of course, were this to be an actual next development: nobody could tell the form which such action might take. But - as you say - for me and mine: Option #3 can be dismissed in the Elder Bush-speak (with the characteristic language mauling of the entire Prescott Bush clan): This Will Not Stand (He meant the didactic 'Shall' connotation - in other than first-person usage - but then.. he just read it somewhere, and still: got it Wrong.) Aux armes! mes amis Better Dead than Unread and Illegible

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