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[internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org (Robert)]

While a government conspiracy wasn't the first thing to leap to my mind as
the cause of this incident (as it did in the very untimely Wellstone death),
the question did cross my mind of how would the Bush administration use this
"tragedy" to further their own agenda.

I don't think this is an irrational leap or fear, seeing as how the Bush
administration used 9/11 to give George W. Bush a mandate that he did not
earn in the election booths and the ability to push through some pretty
heinous legislation unchallenged (USA Patriot Act) that would never been
passed without the 9/11 tragedy.

Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Haslup" <bigleehimself AT yahoo.com>
To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:32 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Dave Matusiak's Taboo Reaction


> My GK Chesterton books are in storage and I can't remember which book I
> am thinking about.  In it he quotes an elderly protestant Irish lady.
> She was describing a local fen (swamp) which she said was a terrible,
> haunted place where "wee popes come out at night."  Chesterton was
> writing about how deep-rooted, and how unthinking, was the Irish
> aversion to Catholicism.  I sometimes worry that Mr. Matsusiak's fens
> may harbor wee Republicans.
>
> As for me, I have a policy that I never attribute to malice those
> things that are more easily assigned to incompetence.  I wish I had
> Dave's faith in the infallibility of the government and its overworked,
> underfunded rocket scientists, but I don't.
>
> BigLee
>
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