[B5JMS] And So It Begins...

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From: velovich at aol.com (V-Man)
Date: 07 Apr 2003 06:47:51 GMT
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>And, of course, Nightwatch built itself up by preying on people's fear,
>warning
>about outsiders, saying we have to watch each other all the time for
>disloyalty
>or dangerous behavior, offering all this in the name of safety....

  So you are saying that there *isn't* somebody out to get us?  That being on
the lookout for suspicious characters, doing suspicious things, is unreasonable
in a society that has become so selfish as to ignore crimes on the street
because it's "none of my business"?


Play more with Claymore!  V-Man
Living Vicariously through my Characters...



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 08 Apr 2003 02:57:21 GMT
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>So you are saying that there *isn't* somebody out to get us?  That being on
>the lookout for suspicious characters, doing suspicious things, is
>unreasonable
>in a society that has become so selfish as to ignore crimes on the street
>because it's "none of my business"?

I'm *saying* that through two world wars, against far more lethal and numerous
and well-armed enemies than what we have right now in a few thousand hobbled
members of Al Quaeda and an almost entirely disarmed and impotent Iraq (as
testified by the ongoing war), we managed to serve the interests of liberty
without erasing the reality of liberty here at home.  We did it without
shredding the constitution.

THAT'S my point.  Get it now?

 jms

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