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  • From: Daniel Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Livingontheland Digest, Vol 152, Issue 2
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:06:14 -0500

Perhaps, with smaller regional distributions, we could stop thinking 
>of each other as "suspects".
>I know I sure am tired of feeling like one.
  
I understand what you're saying, but "suspects" has a generic meaning 
as well as the criminal one. All I was implying was the pool of 
possible sources. I'm the last person who would assume there was 
criminal intent (or would assume there should be criminal prosecution).

Liz in SW VA

I realize what you meant in all good terms. I was just trying to point out that as the pool of suspects shrinks, you end up with everyone knowing each other, and you no longer have 'suspects' to think of. A grandmother whose batch of potato salad goes bad is still the same person that she was before the potato salad made a few people sick. A mexican farmer with sick birds pooping on his field is still the same person to his neighbors that he was last year, but after a thousand Americans got sick from imported jalepenos, his entire group of countrymen have become "dirty suspects", as Iraqi farmers have become "suspected terrorists" whenever they approach a checkpoint with a truck full of melons.

I just feel like our country has become TV fantasy land, where nobody has to bury a dead cat, get permits for every nail they drive, or get their hands dirty without a commercial break. We are watched constantly, our finances are monitored, our children are surveyed and tested, and the sword of Democles takes the form of the FDA, the IRS, or the local zoning board, depending on what time of day we open our eyes.

Do I sound paranoid to you?

;-)
Dan







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