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To: HighTech who wrote (11906)	3/30/2002 10:45:52 PM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

Don't bring your Bible - Leave it home back in US: Saudi Arabia Surveillance is there everywhere: in the store, in the mall, on the road, public buildings, private buildings, anywhere people come and go. Now that terrorism has arrived in America, we need more surveillance. People who don't want to hide anything don't have to worry; if some profligate politician objects to it in the name of curtailment of freedom, he should know what should be curtailed: his profligate nature and not surveillance. If one values life and limb, one has to give up something to preserve both; that something is privacy. We are so worried about illegal immigrants who come here to make a buck, mind their business and live in peace; yet we talk about the civil rights of the terrorists who come here to destroy, because they hate America, they hate what America stands for, and they use American freedom to destroy America. The civil rights group complains about an officer wanting to see the eyes of a visitor, who is clad head to toe in a cloud of shroud, called burka. If they don't want to show the eyes, they are at perfect liberty to take the plane back to where they came from. They have to abide by the laws of US just like some middle east countries expect the same from visitors, and forbid importation of Bible into their country or American service woman walking on their streets in casual clothes with the hair exposed to the elements. Yet the Saudis have built many mosques and cultural centers of Islam in US and around the world and are financing madrasas in pakistan. That is not double standard? The Guantanamo interns are having swell time in the balmy weather, while their comrades languish in the frigid caves of Afghanistan or lay dead and decomposed; they have their Koran, their own first-rate health services, change of sheet and towels, shower, authentic Muslim diet and everything a good Muslim would want to have under the circumstances. Their standard of living and comfort level are far better than those of the average US soldier on tour of duty in Afghanistan.