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To: Ish who wrote (183086)	9/17/2001 5:47:56 PM
From: Still Rolling	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Another examaple of the rot within: Dispatch From Barbara Lee's District We hate to say it, but when California's Rep. Barbara Lee cast the lone dissenting vote against last week's resolution approving the use of force against America's enemies, she may have just been reflecting the views of her constituents. The Alameda Times-Star sends a pair of reporters out to local high schools and gathers a series of disgustingly smug quotes: "It didn't happen in Oakland, it could have but it didn't, so I don't feel scared or nothing. Why should I go fight in a war and die for nothing." -- Hieu Le, 15, Castlemont High School "I'm not risking my life for that, I love myself too much. If they came after me I would have to run." -- Amir Kellogg, 17 "How are you going to defend a nation if that nation can't defend against things like homelessness? I'm not in a rush to help our country because our country is already messed up." -- Jamaal Germaine, 15, McClymonds High School "I think the United States deserves it. It's pretty sad for the poor people, but the United States does the same thing. We're probably going to do the same thing after this. We're not going to send anybody into the country, we're just going to bomb them like they did us." -- Patrick Rizzo, Berkeley High School Berkeley High, you may remember, is the school that banned military recruiters from campus. "I felt it wasn't appropriate to have weapons simulators on the high school campus given all the violence at schools recently," Berkeley school board member Joaquin Rivera said at the time.