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To: Carolyn who wrote (3957)	9/18/2001 9:40:14 PM
From: Winegrower	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Hi do you or anyone have a list of defense stocks, I'm feeling patriotic and want to look at them. thanks, john

To: Carolyn who wrote (3957)	9/19/2001 4:31:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Gently, yet surely, Europe is drifting into (Neo-)Fascism... German Cabinet to Act On Security Crackdown John Schmid International Herald Tribune Wednesday, September 19, 2001 FRANKFURT Germany is acting quickly to close perceived holes in its anti-terrorist intelligence network after learning that three of the suspected hijackers in last week's U.S. terror attacks lived unnoticed for years in Hamburg. The German cabinet is scheduled to approve on Wednesday a raft of security measures, including a ban on religious groups that are deemed to be extremist and tougher controls on airport staff. Interior Minister Otto Schily will announce the measures Wednesday afternoon after the weekly cabinet meeting. But many suggested measures raise a welter of legal issues, and the cabinet will postpone other actions that it deems controversial, in part because of objections of grounds of civil liberties from the Greens party, the junior coalition partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's two-party administration. Those include proposals for the inclusion of fingerprints on identification cards and passports and for the loosening of data protection laws that limit police access to personal information kept by other government agencies. "There is a balance between the rights of freedom and security necessities that must be taken into account," a Greens party spokeswoman said. The discovery of an Islamic terrorist network in Hamburg, where three of the suspected terrorists resided without detection as university students, have caused soul-searching over Germany's internal security standards. The authorities believe that Germany harbors other terrorist cells that have not been activated. "There has been a tendency to excise any talk of danger from public debate," the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said in a front-page editorial that also decried budget cuts in the country's internal security services. "After unification, other dangers were swept under the carpet." At the same time, fresh fears for national security have thrown up new hurdles for the government's primary legislative reform, an omnibus bill to revise immigration policies. [...] iht.com What's intriguing about Europe's sudden terrorist frenzy is that nothing, just NOTHING occurred over here... However, local Gestapos seem much more excited and stirred up by the September attacks than the US's own police/intelligence agencies! It's as if they, somehow, were expecting such a worldwide outrage to unleash their authoritarian leanings. Indeed, Europe's current mood goes far beyond a spontaneous empathy for the Americans' plight: it has geared up into a witch-hunt atmosphere... I don't dare imagine what might happen IF a mere car-bomb is found in a European city. Those suicide attacks could precipitate Europe into a suicidal ideology. Gus.