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To: LindyBill who wrote (81129)	3/11/2003 10:36:57 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

*Re: >>>SONTAG AWARD NOMINEE:* (and similar complaints I've been hearing on SI and elsewhere)** A Greek guy I know owns a local diner in my town. He came here with his family 20 years ago when he was 16; his father didn't want his boys involved in the messy war between Greece and Turkey.... he didn't speak English yet, but worked hard and in only a few years was able to manage his own business. Now he owns the building he operates out of and will survive the economic downturn thanks to his sound business practices and hard work. I mention this because the day we start worrying is not these days when all these Michael Moores, Noam Chomskys, Susan Sontags and other useful idiots gleefully smear their excrement on our country, it's the day when guys like my Greek friend decide against coming here to make their future. It'll also be the day when Muslims decide against coming to study in our universities in the hopes of staying here because it's the best chance they will have in life to get in on what is new and exciting in their fields of study due to out of control broad-brush "Patriot Act N" measures from the Ashcroft and Poindexter's of our country. Don't sweat these Sontag-clowns, it's a free country and I'd rather have people speak openly and publicly and demonstrate for all who care to listen who they really are than have another dose of McCarthyist incompetence. Unfortunately it doesn't look good with the way things are heading. We're going to get it coming and going, whether it's the liberal left wing that always knows best how everyone else should run their lives or these characters surrounding this sock-puppet president of ours.