Hey, cheer up Mike. <He was depressed about CODE ORANGE and said that he had bought duct tape the day before. When people in a town of 60,000 are buying duct tape in fear of chemical attacks the nation is having a mass hysteria.>
We agree. In years to come, people will feel sheepish about having bought duct tape. What a joke!
Osama and co hit the jackpot on 911 in a never to be repeated horror story. Subsequently, we've had a few pathetic attacks, absurdities like Richard Reid, aka Shoebomber and vicious cruelties like the videoed head-hacking of Richard Pearl and the Bali explosions. That's the level at which the Al Qaeda barbarians operate. They don't build, they destroy. They are not long for this world.
They've threatened and threatened and in a year and a half since their jackpot, they are doing far less damage than plane crashes do. We should go back to worrying about car crashes and second hand cigarette smoke.
The Al Q threat is greatly over-rated [famous last words, fingers crossed, touch wood, check duct tape].
<Will I tell my grandchildren that before 2000 you could move freely in the country without an identity card?>
This reminds me of 1974 when my wife and I visited the White House as tourists. No security check. Just line up and wander in. Number 10 Downing Street had a policeman standing outside it, but we could wander up to the door. Businesses, offices and factories in the USA, Canada and here, were open to just wander in and say "Gidday, I'm Mqurice".
Cops were police or bobbies, who were pleasant and unarmed, other than maybe they had a truncheon, which was for show rather than use. Houses were unlocked and windows were open at night. It changed very quickly from the 1960s to the 1980s and then deteriorated through the 1990s.
Ah, the good old days. But I do prefer the fast cyberspace tracks to the World Wide Wait and the Information Superhighway which was a rutted, potholed cattletrack not long ago. Dare I mention Compuserve?
Gung Ho,
Mqurice |
