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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (27491)	9/16/2001 12:10:21 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

DISPLAY OF THE FLAG AT HALF-STAFF The following guidelines are provided: Other flags being displayed from adjacent poles are also lowered to half-staff or removed when the United States flag is displayed at half-staff. Other flags can be displayed beneath the half-staffed United States flag from the same pole if there is adequate room, otherwise these other flags should be removed. For flags that can not be displayed at half-staff (such as a house or porch set) attach a black streamer to the spearhead (top) of the pole allowing the streamer to fall naturally. A flag that is mounted on a wall or in a window also can not be displayed at half-staff. A black bow-knot either with or without streamers is placed at the fastening points. legion.org

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (27491)	9/16/2001 7:45:34 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Israel's foreign minister, Shimon Peres, offers the following possibility: Several decades ago, he notes, they discovered that smoking causes cancer. Soon after that, people started to demand smoking and non-smoking sections. "Well, terrorism is the cancer of our age," says Mr. Peres. "For the past decade, a lot of countries wanted to deny that, or make excuses for why they could go on dealing with terrorists. But after what's happened in New York and Washington, now everyone knows. This is a cancer. It's a danger to us all. So every country must now decide whether it wants to be a smoking or non-smoking country, a country that supports terrorism or one that doesn't." An interesting statement, coming from an official of a country that is one of the world's leading practitioners of state terrorism. This is a distinction that will be difficult to discuss at the moment, but that will eventually have to be confronted: is terrorism always evil, or is it only evil when we disapprove of its aims?