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To: kirby49 who wrote (77053)	9/21/2001 7:09:32 AM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 116752

Bob - you're a confused lad all right. You seem (in all of that long winded diatrade) to be saying that you're a Christian? I guess it comes in all shapes and sizes. Isn't God supposed to hear the little sparrow fall? In the weeks ahead amongst all the vengeful slaughter try to remember some of the tenets of the gospels and ask yourelf what it means. The raskels are beating the drums, hand over hearts. So cheer on, pour out your bile, and remember your bible.

To: kirby49 who wrote (77053)	9/21/2001 7:54:49 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116752

Thursday September 20 2:13 PM ET Suspicious Swiss Bank Account Frozen BERN, Switzerland (AP) - One bank account possibly linked to the terror attacks on the United States has been frozen in a Swiss investigation, Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger said Thursday. However, Villiger said, ``the measures taken so far ... have revealed no indication that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and his terrorist organization have any funds in this country.'' Swiss officials declined to identify the owner or the bank or say how much money was in the blocked account. Jean-Luc Vez, director of the Federal Police Office, told a news conference that since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington Swiss authorities had blocked several accounts after receiving a number of reports from financial managers about suspicious transactions. All but one account was released following further investigation, said Hansjoerg Mark Wiedmer, spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office. Villiger said Switzerland's famous banking secrecy would afford terrorists no protection and the country was fully cooperating with the United States and other nations in their investigations. ``The high value that Switzerland puts on protecting the financial affairs of private individuals applies only to honest citizens and is immediately put aside in the case of criminal activity,'' Villiger said. Vez said information between governments needed to be passed both ways, but that there had been a ``certain shortcoming'' in the information being provided by U.S. officials. The Swiss Bankers Association issued a statement stressing that ``the high level of confidentiality Swiss banks offer their customers does not and will never protect terrorists and their financial transactions.'' Whenever a crime is under investigation ``judicial authorities have complete and unlimited access to information in the banks,'' it said. Villiger held his news conference a day after British treasury chief Gordon Brown said Britain would be pressing Switzerland and other countries to help track terrorists' money. Brown suggested that Switzerland's traditional insistence on banking secrecy was hampering the investigation. The new U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, Mercer Reynolds, also has been urging the Swiss to cooperate. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: kirby49 who wrote (77053)	9/21/2001 11:43:18 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

You have a lot of growing up to do! Your long rambling post cannot but betray the state of your mind---- wool-gathering! You may still have many miles of living ahead of you and hopefully, someday you will experience that gnosis or apperception which will make you a born-again person with the ability to see where you have gone astray. There is no doubt in my mind you are ignorant of what a "freethinker" is. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a freethinker is "One who has rejected authority and dogma, esp. in his religious thinking, in favour of rational enquiry and speculation." A freethinker is therefore not necessarily against war. Nor does he ncessarily condone terrorism. He just does not want to be caught in the maelstrom of an irrational rah-rah crowd. You are an emotional and irrational kid. Grow up! If you wish to make an excursion into the psychology of my mind, you should take the totality of all my posts and not just a couple of short ones. And mind you, for almost any observation, there are interpretations and there are interpretations. Once upon a time, someone saw me on the sidewalk in mid-winter with one glove on. That someone remarked pitifully that I had lost a glove. I replied that I just found one! Have you taken a science course in high school or have you dropped it because you found it too tough or it was not helping your Grade Point Average? Or you chucked it because you thought that some teacher was not competent enough to teach it to you. You know, you sound kinda' artsy-fartsy to me. Maybe that part before the hyphen should be dropped. Have you ever read the book, "The Enemy* That Never Was"* by the Japanese-Canadian Ken Adachi that chronicled and detailed all the injustices perpetrated against the Japanese in Western Canada in general and in British Columbia in particular? Have you read Joyce Kogawa's "Obasan"? If you want to see how suspicion and fear, jealousy and envy and hatred, bigotry and intolerance, and ignorance and self-righteousness can needlessly condemn innocent folks to a life of abject misery and untold hardships, read those two books. So before you mount your high horse of self-righteousness, know the history of your country a little better first. Tell me, how many Canadians really know the history of Canada? Someone once remarked that Canadians are so parochial in their outlook that apart from ice-hockey, football, basketball, ski-ing, McDonalds, KFC and other stuff copycatted from the US they know almost next to nothing about the outside world, and that most of what they know comes from the media and it is often skewed and biased. So you think you'll go to Heaven when you die, eh? What are you gonna do if you see in the next compartment Islamic terrorists each with 70 lovely houris and you have only one woman or none? It case you think I have a compulsion to post on SI, get that silly notion out of your head. You don't know me! I have lots of better things to do than to post to ignorant and self-righteous people like you. Put me on ignore by all means. Better still, go and be like an ostrich burying your head beneath the sand. Let you and you ilk celebrate this thread with a thousand Hallelujas rah-rah style.