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To: Crocodile who wrote (60702)	10/13/2001 11:53:05 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<So, whatcha gonna DO about being surrounded by these guys? >> Lock and load a 10 round clip in my 40 cal. Smith and Wesson.

To: Crocodile who wrote (60702)	10/14/2001 10:56:08 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You know, I have a theory- I frequently have them-usually without factual basis, but who cares- I think we are getting pissed. The initial shock has worn off, and the fear is slowly being absorbed and turned into anger- personal and national. We wondered this weekend if, after that Thursday night warning about more attacks in the next few days, there would be a resurgence of cancellations, more people cowering at home, but the flights were full and today LAX seemed almost at normal business levels. I was very nervous several weeks ago when I flew to the East Coast and the plane was nearly empty; I checked everyone around me in case they were wearing a nametag that said, "HI! I'm a Terrorist!" and I kept my blanket unfolded in my lap, thus armed and ready to take down any suspicious characters by leaping on them and suffocating them. But this morning when I heard that latest propaganda speech by bin Laden's little henchman--"Planes will rain down-yadayada- America will be defeated-If you are Muslim, don't get on a plane or live in a tall building", I cringed, and then I thought, "You SOBs, I'm tired of you and I'm not going to let you do this to me." I felt angry. And that anger carried me through the trip with not one nervous qualm. Of course I had Boomer to protect me, too. CW said he felt that same sort of emotion last night when he went to a Comedy Club and at the end of the evening the emcee came out and thanked the audience, saying, "It's a difficult thing to get out and laugh right now, but we believe it's one of the best things we can do--get right back in there, live our lives, and send a big F-U to those who want to destroy us." And the audience stood up and cheered.

To: Crocodile who wrote (60702)	10/15/2001 2:33:51 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi Croc, I think you misread me. I was being serious for once, and definitely not hysterical. I don't consider this a personal fear or an hysterical distortion. I am just pissed that such "Western domination" haters can peacefully coexist in this open society and then spit out their anti-Western domination venom either verbally or through acts of extreme violence and that our society is vulnerable to this form of infiltration and attack. As for us, our plans remain the same as before 9/11. A trip out to Guam next month to catch the Leonid Meteor Storm scheduled for that longitude, flights to Montana and a couple to Salt Lake for skiing in Jan, Mar, and April, plus a July getaway to the big island followed up by an adventure trip - over to Moscow, out to Irkutsk to tour in and around Lake Baikal and that general locale during August with a focus on the throatsingers that inhabit that bit of Russian backwoods. Serial killers aren't in the same league as these terrorists. If the 9/11 terrorists could have had their way, they would have killed many more innocent victims. Given the right weapons, they still may. I think the news media is being hysterical about these little isolated and generally inept anthrax events. They don't have the "bin Laden" signature. I am looking elsewhere for something a whole lot more effective.