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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (64239)	5/25/2005 4:11:13 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

>>There over 600 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty.<< Ray, that site further claims that: Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (64239)	5/25/2005 4:57:22 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Doesn't the idea of an Alaskan prison camp for 2 million sound slightly preposterous to you? That would be over 3 times the entire population of Alaska! re: Message 21358857

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (64239)	5/25/2005 5:59:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, there are some aspects of the USA which have always reminded me of teutonic character. Germans aren't inherently genocidal nazis, but they do have a teutonic nature which lends itself to stricture, regulation, obsessive orderliness, compliance and the like. There isn't any shortage of that in most people and of course those are desirable attributes in many respects. So many things which go wrong are desirable things taken to excess, like a person washing their hands 200 times a day and carrying out obsessive-compulsive rituals. So far, the USA has been moderate-enough in teutonic character that we are seeing what a good third Reich would have been. As my father wrote in admiration of some German equipment during his time around El Alamein, if they turned their talents to the arts of peace instead of war, they could be great. The USA seems to me like a teutonic people who, for the most part, focus on the arts of peace, though as we regularly see, there is a willingness to take a militaristic approach at the drop of a hat. Let's hope they don't reach a cusp, perhaps during a major recession or depression, as Germany did in the 1930s, when they flip over into a repeat of what everyone burbles on about; "Lest we forget", "Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat this cliche", etc and does exactly the same thing, yet again. I wouldn't be surprised. Not everyone in the USA was anti-Nazi. Some were avid admirers. I think Prescott Bush and Ford and a few other notables for example were okay with some 'discipline'. Mqurice