Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:54:49 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The way to San Jose
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>	Well, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Dennis Kucinich is a psychotic =
lair
>speaking to an audience of anti-Americans.  Exploring all of his multiple
>lies would certainly earn me the title of longest contributor to this =
chat
>list.  I will merely comment that I work with the law and resolution that
>Mr. Kucinich and his colleagues passed, and I know that he's wrong from
>personal experience.  However, justice is sweeter than revenge.  Mr.
>Kucinich is doomed to suffer two galling disappointments for the rest of =
his
>natural life:  the victory of freedom in (1) Afghanistan and (2) =
America...
>no matter how much he tries to prevent those occurances.
>	Why do most Americans suffer the indignities of offering "papers,
>please" to uniformed functionaries?  Because most Americans see that =
process
>as a reasonable attempt to prevent bombs and bombers from boarding =
airplanes
>with them.

The more cynical would suggest that the thugs who hijacked the planes did =
have proper papers.

Of course trying to prove how many similar maniacs have been detered by =
the current system is the problem of trying to prove a negative.

For the moment I will believe that most of the people involved in the =
current security issues are all honorable men, if not then I may be =
thinking of them more of how Marc Anthony spoke of such in Shakespeare's =
Julius Caesar (http://www.theatrehistory.com/plays/shakesmono024.html)

However, as an American I still have the right to think - and say - what I =
may about the man who is President.

>The safety of the populace is the supreme interest of the state.
>	Grand Fenwick was a small community where the police/army was more
>of an archery club than a military force.  I believe that Keith was =
thinking
>of another analogy.
>	Eau de tear gas?  I thought if you could remember the Sixties, you
>weren't really there.

Well, some things remain as "fond" memories <g>.

mjw