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To: sea_urchin who wrote (14773)	7/15/2002 2:41:50 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82344

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but I don't like what I see in the gold share market. USD falls sharply, POG goes up --- and gold stocks fall. finance.yahoo.com Looks like they are being drawn down by the meltdown of the general market. bloomberg.com

To: sea_urchin who wrote (14773)	7/15/2002 5:48:54 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82344

"Letter carriers, utility employees, truck drivers and train conductors are among those named as targeted recruits." I'm not sure why this is such a big deal. Train lines, utilities and mail carriers are natural venues for terrorist attacks. The employees of each of these should be reporting anything suspicious anyway. Teachers have been doing that for years around schools. One contributing factor to the disaster of 911 was a lack of coordination in assessing useful tips received in advance of the hijackings. For example the passenger and attendant on one of the 911 dry run flights had told airport authorities that the several Arabs on board were acting strangely the report of which never was followed up on. So a system is set up to get these kinds of observations in the right hands. It probably is just meant to dissuade fringe groups from stupid acts anyway. "In fact, those attributes are mere symbols of 'freedom' in the face of the incipient tyranny. In due course, you can anticipate that the whole Constitution and the Bill of Rights (Amendments) will be consigned to the trash-can." Searle, since I detect a gradual increase in freedom in the US (at least in my state) since my birth, the above is non sequiter. The long term freedom chart here is bullish. There may be a slight correction here, but the overall direction is positive. Harding made drinking alcohol illegal. Wilson made criticizing the US against the law. Roosevelt duped US into a world war. The highly rated Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. He imprisoned dissenters without trial. He shut down newspapers that opposed him. He abolished free trade. He allowed US cities to be destroyed by artillery fire. He drafted young men and sent them out on suicide charges that made the Imperial Japanese commanders of WWII seem frugal with manpower. Now these are the kinds of things that would have me agreeing with your statement. Yet I see none of them. I see a lot of overreaction to the government moves by the same lame groups that would disarm me if given the power to and incarcerated for displaying a nativity scene on my front lawn. There seems to be a disconnect here. As for politicians being rotten I agree. But I will still eat off of the least rotten apple until something better falls from the tree.