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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1172)	10/15/2005 2:49:46 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218147

H5N1? About the world fear: “The whole aim of practical politics”, said H.L. MENCKEN, “is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” MENCKEN’s forecast, at least, appears to have been correct. There was the Bible then nooclear Armaggedom, the practical politics ran out of fear sources hence the need for: Global Warming, outbreaks and other manufactured fears to keep the populace in their tip toes... Relax...