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To: the_wheel who wrote (10682)	10/9/2001 3:56:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<If you had only withheld your taxes, none of this would have happened! > And voting correctly would have helped too. George W seems to be doing what I like so far [canceled Kyoto, attacking Osama and Taleban, though the defence shield in space doesn't seem as effective as a defence shield at the UN. I admit that I am not perfect, but I do my ethical best. Hence, I am part of a new religion, Libertarianism, which I am going to spread around the world. Then, the Jedi will return. The IRA are bad guys too and Gerry is an Osama clone; beard = check, decades of anger = check, desire for power = check, practised in the art of murder = check, kills anyone who gets in the way = check. So, nuke them, cut off their funds and take them over. Vote for a UN tax on the OPEC cartel's oil [they are conducting a monopolistic restrictive market antitrust deal so the price wouldn't go up] and use that to fund a reconstituted UN which would station a million Pakistani police in Afghanistan, a million Turk police in Iraq/Kuwait [the artificial line between the two canceled]. Afghanistan and Iraq would run themselves under UN rules as self-governing protectorates. Or something like that. [I see a few glitches in the plan]. I wonder if those people who think wars are economically productive still think that the destruction of WTC and the subsequent expenses are economically productive. Cobalt Blue is all for war as an economic enhancement. Evil, but true! It's weird what the stock markets did since the attack, if we are people who believe in the economic utility of war instead of the economic futility of war - which is not to say conducting a war isn't necessary. It's like having to hire lots more police to stop a crime wave, which is expensive and NOT economically productive, in a community wealth sense, though of course necessary before economic activity can take place]. However, let's not over-rate the problem. From 10,000 km out in space, the global economy, which is what we are dealing with, hasn't suffered more than a small ding physically or in numbers of people killed or injured. The psychological effect has been far more damaging economically and represents the true value of the attack [to the attackers]. The airline industry is in tatters, though it is ironically vastly safer to travel now than before hijackers could casually demand to be taken to Havana and be taken seriously. No hijacker is going to get far now, even if they have a gun. Pilots will make the ride very bumpy [the attacker will find themselves on the ceiling, then the floor, then the ceiling] then passengers [who were strapped into their seats - those standing will be nursing injuries same as the hijackers] will attack the attackers. Mqurice

To: the_wheel who wrote (10682)	10/9/2001 3:56:52 PM
From: Jumper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

speaking of which...didn't we just pay the Talibal $45 million in US Taxpayer funds for the war on poppyseeds?