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To: Asymmetric who wrote (5961)	2/18/2002 2:00:55 PM
From: OldAIMGuy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6317

Hi Peter, While travelling to and from NYC this weekend I noted that where there used to be 6 security people for two X-ray machine isles there are now 24 on the concourse. I guess this is uniform everywhere. Our first stop on Friday after checking into our hotel was Ground Zero. The hole in the skyline is noticeable from several blocks away. From the waterfront opposite Ellis Is. and Ms. Liberty to turn and NOT see the towers feels like your mind is playing tricks on you. Ringing the area are fences and safety exclusion construction walls. All of these are covered from top to bottom with memorabilia. I could only look at a few at a time and then I had to turn away to regain my composure. I walked several city blocks doing this over and over again. I was with my wife and college friends. I wasn't the only one of our immediate group overwhelmed by the memorials. Our tiny group was just part of the throng. People spoke in hushed tones. It was as if everyone was attending an unusual wake. I, for certain, know of one friend from childhood who died there. I checked names of others that I knew frequented the WTC and found, to my relief, that their names were not listed. I have two second cousins who work in the financial district, one was evacuated and the other had been transferred up-town to another office two weeks before 9/11. I was in Haiti shortly before "Baby Doc" was deposed. (I don't believe there's a Cause/Effect relationship here<GG>) I believe that was the first country I'd ever visited where armed militia were on duty in an airport and other public places. I remember thinking at the time that it was a measure of the level of civilization whether a country needed such things. The cost for the security efforts is going to be tremendous. Will it be a "forever" cost? I don't know. I think the people of the world need to work desperately hard to purge society of megalomanical individuals and groups bent upon such grandstanding as the WTC/Pentagon attacks. So much was lost and so little achieved. If the same level of effort in time, manpower and materiel had been put forth in training the perpetrators in something productive, they and those around them would have benefited to a much greater degree. The time, manpower and materiel now being deployed to "secure" our public transportation systems, shores, infrastructure and individuals could be spent for such a greater good that it seems such a waste to have it be for non-productive means. This has always been the case when war is the method of the day. Greater Good is postponed while we secure Status Quo. With luck, we don't slip backwards too far. So many more people alive today live better and more productive lives than at any time in the past that the numbers are staggering. A century ago, far fewer people lived anywhere near the "Middle Class" than now. This is in both absolute and percent basis. As Buckminster Fuller predicted, Technology has continued to deliver to the human race, "More, Better with Less" - more goods and services of higher quality and productivity with less and less raw materials expended. And, Technology is delivering it to a greater and greater portion of Humanity all the time. I believe we have to steel ourselves to costs of curing the current social disease and learn more about its future prevention. As with all things, an ounce of prevention would have been worth a pound of cure. Best regards, Tom