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To: paret who wrote (57334)	2/28/2006 12:32:21 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 57584

I agree, the security risk of allowing our port terminals to come under arab control is real and unecessary, even if remote. The only legitimate arguement for the letting the port deal go forward is protecting free markets. I think we should be more interested in protecting our citizens from a massive and devastating terorist attack with a nuclear weapon or similiar weapon of mass destruction device than protecting the obscure concept of the "free market". Why should we try to protect the "free market" in ports anyway? The free market is rarely applied in other portions of our economy in the pure sense. Almost all industries benefit from government bastardization or subsidation of their markets in one way or another. The oil trade, for example, is anything but a truly free market. The government has chosen winners and losers in the energy business for decades and routinely allocates $100 Billion plus per year in military protection to protect the free flow of oil. That is a government sponsered bastardization of the energy markets that has the result of affecting which energy technologies succeed and which ones fail; oil has undoubtably been the big winner from these government policies.

To: paret who wrote (57334)	2/28/2006 1:05:48 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

Paret In response to calls made to Senator John Warner of Virginia's office regarding the port questions a statement appeared on his internet site saying he was asking fora 45 day review of the question of security. He was interviewed on Sunday Feb. 26th on Meet The Press along with Rep. King. Check out Senator John Warner's web page for transcript of the interview noted below. And, read it in its entirety------taking a snip here and there does not give a flavor for the complexity of the question of port security. Think it is worth a read. mj NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert (Excerpt) Guests: Sen. John W. Warner, R-Va., Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. Port Security, Iraq Sunday, February 26, 2006 Printer Friendly Version