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Strategies & Market Trends : MARKET INDEX TECHNICAL ANALYSIS - MITA -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J.T. who wrote (16559)	3/21/2003 8:42:15 PM
From: Perspective	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19219

Where's everybody go for Rydex data now? Thanks, BC

To: J.T. who wrote (16559)	3/21/2003 10:13:49 PM
From: nsumir81	Respond to of 19219

jt..think you are oversimplifying..in black and white-but i will not expand on it or debate. gnight and peace.

To: J.T. who wrote (16559)	3/22/2003 11:54:48 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19219

>>The rules of the world changed after 9/11.<< which?? Other countries have had bombings -- we had the bombing in Oklahoma city which was certainly ant-American ... The trade towers were hit before 9/11, though the attempt failed ... I don't see how the rules have changed or even necessarily the "circumstance." What I do see is the concentration of power in our government at the national level. This I deplore -- no matter what excuse is used. I also see an expensive and costly projection of power abroad -- which I believe won't be able to be maintained. Do I believe that Bush is attempting to make things safer here and that he is being honest about his intent? Sure ... That does not necessarily mean that all his policies are right. But regarding the general proposition of: Stike first before they get us -- or destroy a capability to attack us with weapons of mass destruction -- How far should we be willing to go to "pre-empt" -- how do we distinguish between those who harbor such weapons for "defensive" purposes and those who harbor such weapons for "offensive" purposes. China has such weapons -- they are not friendly to "democracy" -- indeed they do murder their own people with which they do not agree ... there is no religious freedom there. The logical endpoint of "strike first" is to strike everyone who even has the capacity to attack us -- it is the idea behind a reign of terror. Supposedly 9/11 could not have been anticipated -- but there have been hijackings before where the terrorists were intent on nothing but destroying those on board. Our government chose to do nothing. Pilots could have been armed or marshalls put on planes -- didn't even have to be announced. Indeed the solution to preventing 9/11 again is quite simple and inexpensive. Instead the whole affair has been used to justify wholesale spying on citizens. These things are opposed the very freedoms that Bush waxes so poetically about. I know of a family who live here for 20 years -- didn't dot all the i's and cross all the t's on their citizenship -- so what'd they get for their hard work and love of America?? A one way ticket out ... our new gestapo man is a horrible man -- an enemy of liberty. I'm truly ashamed that he is from Missouri. The patriot act had nothing to do with patriotism at all -- but everything to do with fear, money, control and expansion of the federal government. I hope that the current effort succeeds without a hitch. I don't like Sadam. I don't want to see folks under the hand of a cruel dictator anywhere -- but my own belief is that respecting the sovereignty of other states and liberliazation of trade will move peoples toward having more of a choice in their governments over the longer term than will bombing.