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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (6620)	6/23/2003 5:54:21 PM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Action proves. Words are only a ruse. To wit: By living in a country with the world's most powerful military force, you endorse its use. You knowingly did NOT move to Costa Rica which has no military forces. Instead, you CHOSE to remain in this country, in spite of knowing FULL WELL and IN ADVANCE that use of military force (i.e. war, any war) was possible, and probable. You paid taxes that supported the government and all its extensions. You endorsed military action by taking no action yourself. Your actions say it: The war was right. You approved. In the same context, the "sense" of letting people drive cars, when 40,000 are killed annually in vehicle accidents, lacks sense. Why should people fly, when so many have died in airplane accidents? Especially innocents on the ground. The eight-year old girl in Paris, decapitated in her backyard because of the crash of a Russian jet at a "frivolous" air show, isn't that insane? Totally innocent, and never involved with the Russian military. Should flying in France continued with such reckless disregard? In 1989, there were 17.5 automobile deaths per 100,000 people in the US. There were 70.89 motorcycle deaths per 100,000 people. Is it "insane" to allow motorcycle riding, when a "diplomatic" solution, with a viable transportation, is obvious to EVERYONE? Yet you have done nothing to condemn this atrocity. Why not picket the DMV... "Stop Cycles NOW!" Where is the outrage? "No Motorcycles for Oil". The notion that you can recount alleged incidents you did not witness, and proclaim judgment them from halfway around the world is the only "insanity" I am witnessing. "makes sense", "refute that", "insane"....put some "proof" behind your own convictions by moving to Costa Rica.