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To: Wowzer who wrote (9525)	10/15/2001 10:37:32 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) of 23153

Bush is already beginning to get a kind of hysteric edge to his voice and is lapsing into the first person singular, and I hope that some in Congress are bothered by this. But maybe his mom will calm him down. It may be, however, that the US will have to put itself more on a footing like that of France during the Algerian War, when bombings and machine-gunnings were common, especially in Paris. Every police station had a guard with a submachine gun standing out front behind a steel and concrete sort of pulpit. Foreigners were carefully controlled; you had to show your passport to register at a hotel, and reports went into the police every night. Anyone staying more than two months had to get a "Carte de Sejour" with a picture ID, and have it revalidated at the local police station every couple of months. And yet, one felt great freedom of travel, behavior, and self-expression--in some respects one felt more free to be oneself then than in the United States. It was perfectly respectable to be a communist. One could own gold. Sexual censorship was quite lax.

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