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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] A point of view
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:47:12 -0600

I started this thread by posting an article by a writer who made his case for not supporting the troops in Iraq. The agile and involved minds of the Homestead family quickly worked their way through that issue and then a few members polarized issues of e-mail and telephone eavesdropping and presidential power.

This morning, The New York Times is running a story that includes results of a poll on the wiretap issue. "Fifty-three percent of the respondents said they supported eavesdropping without warrants 'in order to reduce the threat of terrorism.'" And: "In one striking finding, respondents overwhelmingly supported e-mail and telephone monitoring directed at 'Americans that the government is suspicious of;' they overwhelmingly opposed the same kind of surveillance if it was aimed at 'ordinary Americans.'"

The White House will make its case, the press will sell, excite and inform, the DC Whorehouse will pose, posture and seek political gain, the Supremes will await the case, and we, the elevated members of the Homestead List, will observe and react, ever alert to waning freedom. This is our America in the sunrise days of the twenty-first century.






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