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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (135181)	6/2/2004 12:25:37 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Hawk, that's an excellent proposal, suitable for the Soviet Union and Mao's China where the individual is just a servant of the state and everybody got sent to the countryside for a year or two [or more for those who really were disliked]. Actually, the state should be a reflection of its people and the sum of its needs and hopes, as well as its responsibilities for the perpetuation of that state. If all people have the equal right to obtain life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from living in this country, it would make sense to me that they all share an equal responsibility for ensuring its ability to do so. Some people think we're invulnerable because we have two oceans separating us from the world's turmoil and tyranny. I would suggest that this isolation is a double edged sword, in that it effectively quarantines us sufficiently to lead some of our enemies to use biological and chemical agents against us, hoping that collateral damage against themselves would be contained. I truly believe that we're facing a current, or at least a potential, danger that exceeds the danger we faced during WWII. We're vulnerable now.. And we'll never be able to adequately protect ourselves via homeland defense. The only adequate way to defeat our enemies is to carry the battle to them, defeat them, or at least deny them that which they need to spread their militant ideology. Hawk