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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (12501)11/14/2001 1:56:36 PM
From: sea_urchin  Respond to of 81956
 
Alan >... I want to see the pikes of the White House gate lined with their skulls.

To achieve that, may be more difficult than one imagined.
thetimes.co.uk

"........I was brought up to believe that Western civilisation was far too robust to be threatened by this sort of terrorism. I was appalled when the US President implied the opposite. I thought that British democracy was strong enough not to glorify bin Laden as a Hitler, summoning a “war Cabinet” against him and flattering him with yesterday’s over-blown “emergency powers”.

The West is weaker than I thought. But Afghanistan will test that weakness. It will test the New Moral Imperialism more severely than did Vietnam, the Balkans or recent excursions into the Middle East."



To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (12501)11/14/2001 4:47:56 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 81956
 
Alan, what do you think about this?!

A harmless guy gets arrested for wanting to use the toilet on the plane and the plane gets diverted to another airport. Seems to me that the US authorities have gone mad.
washingtonpost.com

It would have been a lot easier if the guard, after handcuffing the 'offender', accompanied the poor guy into the lavatory and held his willie for him while he relieved himself!