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To: Lane3 who wrote (208895)	6/18/2007 6:10:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793919

I would submit that never uttering a disturbing word is the greater threat to democracy. The notion that our country's officials never make a mistake, never do anything wrong, or if they do something wrong, we should go along silently lest we tear down trust and faith in our country is utterly counter to the notion of democracy. It is disingenuous, and more than disingenuous, to conflate accusing the entire American government of a vast conspiracy to commit mass murder in New York and blame it on Arab terrorists for war-mongering purposes, with merely "accusing officials of doing something wrong" in a democratic fashion.