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To: LLCF who wrote (17946)	4/8/2002 4:47:01 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Everybody has his own "ride-to-Damascus" moment. I had mine (actually I had several; but this one applies to the occasion) back in Canada, when I suddenly realized what the light-blue logos (ignored/unseen the first few years there) on the Ontario state police cars say. They said "to serve and to protect". I would assume a) it still the same logo in good ol' ONT and b) that a lot of police & such cars around the globe say so too. Still that was the moment where I realized civilization, state I live in, my street and the two neighbours left and right, are something we all need "to serve and to protect". Of course I had my normal share of cases where I got suckered in, but it's a question (and an answer) that are both deeply rooted in my whole existence. To be more prosaic, I push the limit, but dont transgress, when it comes to paying my taxes ("after all, they may even get your ass;" to be completely honest and self-critical) The point Re <Solidaritätszuschlag>? I was in Germany when Pershings were being setup. I asked blue-eyed "how far is actually DDR from here" (we were sitting in some shady place above the Stuttgart downtown hole). The answer was (Im extemporizing) "85 seconds with Pershing and max 2 minutes with Mig29". As Updike thought loud in one of his (beatiful) short stories "We pay dear in blood for our peaceful homes". dj