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To: Sig who wrote (136105)	6/10/2004 4:25:43 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Actually Sig, what I saw was swarms of people doing their duty. I can't say that I saw a lot of heart. Sure, there have been lots of great words and retrospectives. But it wasn't like Princess Diana, with the hearse covered in flowers from one end of the country to the other, with heart and soul poured forth. It was a mechanistic ritualistic display. The police were facing the compliant, passive, crowds to control them, with backs turned to the hearse as it went by. No flower throwing allowed! Polite applause only. It wasn't as though he was going to get shot or anything. There was lots of marching and stuff. <From a distance, America could appear to be a disorganized pack of delinquent complaining goof-offs wanting to overthrow the Administration and start all over. But closer up, you can see a powerful capability to organize when important things need to be done. Even old enemies and new, Democrats and Republicans come together to honor the office and a man who was once President. > Where's the love? Sure it was organized, powerful and all that. I quite like disorganized, complaining goof-offs and some overthrowing of the high and mighty. The Jiang Zemin 50th Communist China celebration, with organized, hard-working, proletariat genuflecting to their masters isn't my thing. Mqurice PS: George Bush Snr just said [to Larry King] he didn't think about assassination much, until after his presidency. Then, "Saddam Hussein tried to knock us off; me and Barbara and a whole lot of others". That's the real reason for King George II getting Saddam; not WMDs. Bonesmen don't take that kind of crap from tinpot dictators. Plus some remarks about Al Qaeda. Come in Osama and the bin Ladens. William Shakespeare covered all this stuff half a millennium ago. Plus ca change.