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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>


> 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.

***
Sheople have yet to figure out that the them in "the government is 
suspicious of" IS "ordinary Americans.  AND, that they are the "them" that 
will loose still more freedomes.

The p.s. system is working exactly how it was designed to work! Welcome to 
the new McCarthyism.

Lynda