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To: LindyBill who wrote (149187)	11/29/2005 3:09:47 PM
From: mph	Respond to of 793917

Gee, and the male passenger didn't even look at the beneficial side of the policy--- not having to sit next to someone else's squirmy or noisy child for a long flight<g>

To: LindyBill who wrote (149187)	11/29/2005 6:32:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

<Worsley said someone asked him after the event why he had not simply refused to move. "But these days you can't really do that. With [fears of] terrorism, if you cause any fuss on the plane you're out walking."> The terrorists have used us again against ourselves. Now we have the authoritarians loving their power. While they don't admit it and would deny it, they are absolutely loving the terrorist threats which they use to make all of us cower before their new-found authority. People are too scared to say boo to anybody wearing a uniform or in authority for fear that the patriot act, terrorist act, general obeisance and compliance act and general anti-terrorist act will mean being frog-marched off to 'enemy combatant' land for non-persons and the disappeared. So much for our much-vaunted "freedom", which is complete hypocrisy these days. There is little freedom in NZ. We aren't even allowed to buy a double-happy [a little firecracker]. Imagine running around with a cap gun these days, which I used to do as a child. The armed offenders squad would be out in force, helicopters overhead. Everything is forbidden unless specifically permitted, in which case it is compulsory. Mqurice