>Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:48:51 -0700 >To: Alan <alan@private> >From: Steve Coffman <divinstr@dsl-only.net> >Subject: RE: CRIME Kayak rental info. > >Alan, >I grateful that I'm not the only one that's still reasonable. I also teach scuba diving on the side. I thought the FBI's latest scenario was absolutely ludicrous! The terrorist have indeed already Won their battle! We have lost many of our basic freedoms, might has well wear yellow stars on our coats when going to the airports. Guess we can blame most of the "terror" on the media as always... get the best "story" and feed on fear, their favorite pastime when not digging up dirt on people. >lol... Guess I'm getting carried away, just wanted to agree with your thoughts. > > > > > >>The warnings bother me, but not for the usual reasons. Most of the >>warning sound like they were derived by a bunch of people getting stoned >>out of their minds and then coming up with scenarios of what might >>happen. >> >>"Dude! They could be using scuba divers to blow up stuff! That would be >>cool!" >> >>The reported threats are so unfocused that they are either made by >>people under the influence or people just making things up. They also >>have so little information as to be useless. The only purpose is to >>keep people in a low-level state of fear at all times. After a while, >>people will just ignore the warnings and go on with their lives. If a >>real warning does happen, it will be ignored, just like the last batch >>of vague warnings. >> >>Maybe they are just trying to bankrupt us. Spending huge amounts of >>money on pointless security measures until it breaks our economy. >>(Personally I think it is already happening.) >> >>As for protecting ourselves... That is no longer allowed in most >>cases. Any public place where people are gathered and might be a >>"target", any means of self-protection is removed from you. Soon, >>anyone in a public place will no longer be allowed to have anything >>sharper than a rubber ball. (And it cannot be a small rubber ball or >>they might choke on it.) Steve Coffman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support PLUG and the Open Source Community http://www.linuxfund.org/lugs/?lug=plug To subscribe to the PLUG list visit http://www.pdxlinux.org/mailing_list/
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