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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (229836)	5/5/2007 4:58:54 AM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Maurice, Internet Welfare Queen, the entire point of walls in the modern world is to point out the failure of people to act reasonably. They are not a friendly gesture which simply leads people to continue to act badly in the future. I wonder when there will be an Israeli-wall moment where chunks of it are carted off as souvenirs of the bad old times. I understand that you cannot comprehend these ideas. You are of the old world. Your DNA is not enlightened. That is your limitation and also what makes you frightened and grumpy. Have you decided to stop paying your taxes to your confiscatory government? Have you decided to run for office in order to stop said confiscatory government? Have you done anything but profit from US taxpayer paid technology? Eh? I didn't think so.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (229836)	5/5/2007 6:01:37 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

re walls... there is a certain irony in the fact that people who wall them selves in are just as much prisoners of a siege mentality....which is not a fun thing.... Siege mentality From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A siege mentality is a shared feeling of helplessness, victimization and defensiveness. Although the term evolved from real sieges, today it refers to persecution feelings by anyone in the minority, or of a group that views itself as a threatened minority. Siege mentalities are particularly common in business, the result of competition or downsizing. Some churches may have this paradigm, particularly if they are not traditional mainstream groups. Dictatorships have been known to encourage this point of view among their own people, since it justifies the continuance of those in power. A current example that seems to be fairly successful is North Korea. [1]