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To: michael97123 who wrote (65686)	9/10/2002 2:31:23 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Mike, OT *** I think I understand your unease. I would not want to live near GZ either. >California folks(collectively) dont get the enormity of the tragedy and the attack.< Maybe so. I personally do remember the terror attacks on my home town by allied bombers though. We didn't have the media frenzy afterwards [hardly any media then] and moved in with grandma in the suburbs. The damage was comparable and threats of future attacks remained. One difference between Hitler and Saddam is that the latter has not invaded any countries lately. All I read is what he 'could' do if he obtains nuclear materials. The holocaust is in a category of its own and I won't go there. For several years after I emigrated to Canada I thought I had to apologize for it. Loss of personal freedoms starts small. First you arrest and detain persons suspected of terrorist ties without publicity. Next? Gottfried

To: michael97123 who wrote (65686)	9/10/2002 7:36:43 PM
From: Cary Salsberg	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

OT RE: "Thats why I give Bush the benefit of the doubt." As a child, I very early accepted the idea that people who were racist against African-American's were probably anti-semites, also. Do you wonder why over 90% of Afro-Americans and Jews vote Democrat? I believe that there is credible evidence that Bush's appointee as Attorney General, Ashcroft, and Minority Leader Lott have supported white supremacy organizations and participated in their meetings and contributed to their journals. These were the kinds of people that prevented the US from directly acting to save European Jews and hence contributed to the losses. You are correct, in California, the 9/11 losses are not as immediate at they are at ground zero. For me, 3000 deaths are placed in the perspective of 6,000,000 rounded up like animals, despised and hated by most of their neighbors, and murdered by assembly line, a perspective I have had for 55 years, now.