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[rayzentz AT aol.com]

Hey, Gene
 
Thanks for the accurate summary.   I might add that I appreciate the comments 
from members of the list on all sides of the issues.   While at times I 
disagree (perhaps most of the time;-)), the thoughts and ideas presented do 
make me spend time and thought on my position.   For that I thank you all.
 
Ray 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:47:12 -0600
Subject: Re: [Homestead] A point of view


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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