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To: maceng2 who wrote (16200)	1/12/2002 12:26:40 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) of 281500

When I returned to the US after working in France several years, my container was never inspected. Granted, all I had was some undeclared wine and champagne, but I could have put anything in there with the slightest complicity on the part of the guys who loaded it at my apartment... in fact many of the boxes I'd packed and taped before their arrival just got loaded on the truck. It's like monitoring internet traffic, there is just so much international commerce that I believe it's nearly impossible to really control things in a country the size of the US with the velocity of money and active economy we enjoy. This tells me that the terrorists who really care enough to try and harm the US are a lot more rare than one would think... it has to be the only thing that has "saved" us so far. That and the fact that one doesn't make any money on terrorism. Drugs involve mind boggling amounts of money, and only a small fraction is ever intercepted. Can you imagine what it would be like if terrorism was actually profitable?

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