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To: gao seng who wrote (181557)	9/15/2001 1:16:09 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You include in "pouring out" your "righteous anger" approval of those who beat up Arab-looking people in the street, write hate-messages on Mosques in their towns, phone the neighborhood Mosque to make ugly threats, calling them "murderers," threatening them? These are our neighbors. Their children go to our schools. They pay taxes. They work with us, including at the World Trade Center. They lost loved ones. Do you now hate all Muslims? What kind of person are you? I am trying to keep in mind the stress and shock of the last few days.

To: gao seng who wrote (181557)	9/15/2001 1:30:13 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I think it is you who doesn't have a clue. You are coming from the assumption that these terrorists are the representatives of a nation-state which can be singled out for responsibility, and punished. That assumption shows YOUR age. That world no longer exists. In today's world thousands of individuals who have never seen each other's faces can collaborate, worldwide, silently and unseen until their bombs explode in your face. When information can be had and exchanged effortlessly worldwide in the blink of an eye, anonymously, you don't need a state. These people can move out of harms way while US forces are still establishing a front on the beaches, crossing porous borders with little more than the clothes on their backs and a Visa and Mastercard and a laptop computer. Derek