At 09:11 PM 3/18/03 -0800, Alan wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 09:56, George Heuston wrote:
>
> > Operation LIBERTY SHIELD is a comprehensive national plan designed to
> > increase protections for America's citizens and infrastructure while
> > maintaining the free flow of goods and people across our border with
> > minimal
> > disruption to our economy and way of life.
>
>Operation Liberty Shield ("Shielding us from our liberties") sounds like
>one of those insurance scams designed to separate old people from their
>money. ("For just dollars a day, your loved ones will be protected from
>sudden death and dismemberment and attacks by giant Iraqi robots.")
>
>As for the "maintaining the free flow of goods and people across our
>border with minimal disruption to our economy and way of life".
>
>Color me unconvinced. The present "security measures" have caused great
>damage to our economy. I expect these will just add to it.
>
>--
>Alan <alan@private>
No Argument here! It's been a cash cow for the media and government
agencies and they help it along by adding "terror" to Americans that
something drastic is going to happen in their neighborhood. I'll give some
credit to the FBI trying to get the statement out that the NW is not a
target for terrorist. Of course, the local mayor who likes to see her name
in print, made sure she had a larger headline with "Operation Safe City"!
Sounds like Commissioner Gordon and Batman have arrived in town. I guess it
just saddens me that the American population on the whole are that (what's
the politically correct word for stupid), to fall for this.
The part of the presidents current plan to dump Saddam then pour billions
into Iraq to help build their infrastructure and feed their people really
ticks me off! WE have starving people and are close to a financial disaster
right here in the good ole USA! How about fixing us first for a change?
Pour those billions into our economy, create some jobs like FDR did. Do
something else besides pissing off the rest of the world. The only positive
thing I see out of this is the support for the military personnel. That's
something we did not have when I served 30+ years ago and it's good to see
the public suport.
OK, sorry for adding this much but I needed to say it somewhere.
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