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To: NightOwl who wrote (126089)	3/13/2004 3:56:04 PM
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Hi NightOwl, Thank you for your clarifying elaboration. I expect we'd become the Mother of All Police States in very short order if America ever got half way to the level of insecurity Israel lives under. Yes, that's what I would expect, too. I experienced a hint of it in Germany in 1977 during the hijacking of Mr. Schleyer and a Lufthansa jet. baader-meinhof.com All of a sudden there were police road blocks all over the country. A new kind of dragnet investigation was invented ("Rasterfahndung"). Any remaining members of communist parties in public service were dismissed. A funny quote from globalsecurity.org : Germany ... has enacted several major laws supporting the investigation and prosecution of terrorist organizations and, for the first time in some years, is beginning to take control of its problems. It has taken a leadership role in the fight against terrorism. Back to your post: I suspect that the Iraq invasion was, in part, intended to make a point as much as was the WTC attack. Yes, as Thomas Friedman wrote in "Because we could" #reply-19000067 and George Friedman in a Stratfor analysis, "Looking Beyond Iraq" #reply-19719415

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