Ok - my turn to vent a little - many of you have
made excellent points and I've enjoyed reading
all the different views. I'd only like to add that
we are not a Democracy - we are a Represenative Republic.
If we weren't Albertarnoldalgorejr would be president -
Thank God he is not. I don't care why they are mad at us -
even though as a World History teacher I could come up with
several ideas. The thing to do here is what is moraly right -
As stated by someone prior - it will possibly take some time
to sort things out and then we need to retaliate in a decisive
manner avoiding civilians if possible.
Mike
>From: "L Jordan" <ay107@lafn.org>
>To: "Datsun Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:20 PM
>Subject: Tragedy x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
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>> Despite this tragedy Democracy must continue which is anchored by the
>> principle that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty. I just pray
>> the government doesn't do something without enough evidence thereby
>> making martyrs and encouraging the next generation of bomb throwers.
>> Let's not forget too that Okalohoma City was an american terrorist, not
>> Islamic.
>> The hard question to ask is why are they mad at us? A question one asks
>> in even the most minor disagreement, what is the other person's
>> argument? For then we can take steps to correct anything we may have
>> done which was not right. This in no way excuses any extreme behavior
>> anyone would take in disagreement with us. But unless you know WHY there
>> is anger you cannot defuse it. You may not be able to anyway but it
>> increases your chances. Any good hostage negotiator knows this. Let's
>> try to figure these people out, it's our only hope because you can never
>> make things secure enough to completely eliminate this kind of thing.
>> Lastly we should appeal to anyone who knows about this to do the right
>> thing, make the call.
>> Venting like everyone else, and that's Democracy isn't it?
>> Linda
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