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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (192201)	7/20/2006 12:33:10 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) of 281500

If you are beat up and the cops come and bust the perp, should you get a bill for their "service"? The truth is that everyone in that community gets to foot the bill. Standing police forces are paid for by each taxpayer. But when someone acts foolishly, such as being involved in a mountain rescue because they were injured or caught in a storm, normally the rescued person is charged for the cost of that rescue (or at least a portion of it). You're also charged for ambulance rides, so god forbid you need to be medevaced by helicopter. Exactly where WERE the volunteers wiling to go to Lebanon to get US citizens out? If I knowingly go into a country reknowned for instability, is the government responsible for my actions without asking for some compensation to cover the cost of my evacuation? Listen.. I'll be damn grateful to pay that money, rather than face the alternative of staying there and putting my life at risk unecessarily.. If they can't afford $300 to pay the evacuation fee, they shouldn't be over there in the first place. And I can say this from personal experience.. my sister and her husband are currently in Lebanon waiting for evacuation. Hawk

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