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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (5525)	5/17/2000 12:52:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 9127

Oh GOD- you are so stupid. I really can't stand it. This is the absolute nadir of posts for you. BRAVO!!!!! How did you EVER figure out how to use a computer?

To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (5525)	5/17/2000 1:45:00 AM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Or the water cup may be vibrating because of a small tremor; worrisome perhaps, but not of the same terrifying magnitude of a T-Rex, a major quake, or a tsunami. A sense of proportionality is always important--that's why we have the cautionary tale of the boy who "cries wolf." Much worse things have happened in this country that didn't presage a slide into Nazi-like terror: we've had millions in chains, the suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War; the overreaction to the labor demonstrations of the early 1900's; lynchings; forced confessions pre-Miranda; U.S. citizens of Japanese descent forced into concentration camps during WW II; the 1968 Chicago "police riot"; undeclared "wars". etc. All very bad. None were the forerunner of the re-creation of Nazi Germany on our shores. Proportionality, reason, and a sense of history is all I ask.