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To: TobagoJack who wrote (71058)	1/28/2009 10:10:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Decades ago I noticed how USA embassies were like fortresses and NZ embassies were open. Going into the NZ embassy in Haymarket off Trafalgar Square in London during the IRA bombings one could just wander in, make yourself comfortable, read the papers, collect mail etc. It seems a more pleasant strategy to not be a threat and give people no particular reason to want to attack. I suppose now it's different for NZ around the world. But here, people can just wander into buildings, courts and most other places unimpeded by anything other individual attitudes. Even in 1994, I could wander into Qualcomm buildings and anywhere in them. Now it's all secure. In 1975 we visited the White House [Washington one] and as tourists we could enter at least part of it [I forget the details]. In 1974 we could walk up to 10 Downing Street door though by then they did have a Bobby minding it. Not long later they kept all out to avoid IRA attack - no entry past Whitehall. Now, there is good reason to avoid travel to the USA. One could be a "disappeared" with no recourse to habeas corpus, law or anything - simply an abducted alien. But I still fancy my chances there more than a lot of other countries where I wouldn't be seen dead [or would be if I went]. What do you think they have as interrogation techniques in China? I expect they get quite brutal. Mqurice