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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (47837)9/29/2002 11:29:40 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
911 showed that it was even worse than we thought.

I think Congress really needs to think long and hard about who the enemy is here. It seems to me that many members of Congress over the years felt more threatened by our own intelligence community than by foreign enemies.

Parenthetically, the reaction by the Left to Campus Watch reminds me of the same reflexive paranoia. The San Francisco Chronicle calls Campus Watch a "blacklist." What is it about public accountability that is making them so crazy? It has to be that they don't trust the public. They think public scrutiny is dangerous. As long as their beliefs are only communicated to small groups of mostly sympathizers, they don't feel threatened.

I might add, that they have the power to punish students who vocally disagree with them. Bad grades, bad recommendations, no career. But they have no power over the public at large.

We can see on our own thread that many (not all) of those who share similar views deeply distrust the CIA and the FBI, and do not trust the administration in the least.

We seem to live in parallel universes. Ms. McKinney is the most vocal but she's not alone. She is an ardent supporter of Palestine, and deeply distrustful of the CIA, the FBI, and Bush. What Pipes calls "the paranoid style" in Mideast politics.

Rating the widely held paranoias about politics, my guess is that paranoia about the intelligence community is #1, even before paranoia about bankers and the Federal Reserve, even before paranoia about Jews.
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