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To: Dale Baker who wrote (8587)	1/11/2006 10:21:53 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541556

I got the impression that you did not want to engage on this, but on the off chance that you do... And both are marks of TOTALITARIAN regimes. I found myself thinking about your "Cuban-style neighborhood watch committees" in the early hours of the morning when my brain was adrift. It seems to me to depend on what is being watched for. Your totalitarian "neighborhood watches" watch for political dissidence, even to the point of being encouraged to find it where it doesn't exist. Dissidence and bad faith. Watching for other enemy activity and doing so in good faith is good citizenship. If I knew that someone in my neighborhood was hatching bombs or anthrax in the basement, I'd sure report him. It would be immoral not to, IMO. It seems reasonable to me to expect citizens to do that. It also seems reasonable for the government to remind them of that responsibility.

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