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To: Father Terrence who wrote (21559)	5/15/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You are wrong about almost everything in the post I am responding to, Terrence. First, America tacitly accepts dual citizenship now. I am sure my being a citizen of Waveland is not going to bother them, really. Citizenship as a concept is changing very rapidly anyway, and just wait until the New World Order takes hold!!! Wow, I am already a citizen of America, Great Britain, Ireland, Waveland, and because of two of those, I can live and work anywhere in the European Community. I'd better go get a great big briefcase to hold all of my passports!!!!! And my Waveland flag!!! And my blow-up dinghy, so I can visit there anytime I feel like it!!! Please explain what motivates companies to care for the environment, except governmental regulation. Please explain particularly what motivates them besides the profit motive. It is easy to call environmentalists Luddites, but it is a cheap shot, and quite inaccurate. If you believe that global warming is not real, and that our superior technology will always solve any problem we create, and you are wrong, then we have destroyed the planet. If people like me are wrong, there is really no harm done, and the earth will be a prettier and happier place, as well.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (21559)	5/15/1998 11:02:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Terrence, Ayn Rand's ideology is parroted here just as much as any other way of looking at life and the universe. So you are a parrot!!! Say, I hear you are endangered. I hope a nice environmentalist comes along and saves you from being smuggled into America in a tennis ball container, wrapped in an old nylon. Did you know your chances of surviving that kind of importation are only about 30%? Or perhaps it was macaws I was reading about. In any event, cocaine smuggling rings from South America have taken up this graft as a sideline, since it is so profitable. Now, in the interest of equal time, here is a nice Tracy Chapman song, from her 1995 album, New Beginning: THE RAPE OF THE WORLD Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the wold This the beginning of the end This the most heinous of crimes This the deadliest of sins The greatest violation of all time Mother of us all Place of our birth We all are witness To the rape of the world You've seen her stripped mined You've heard of bombs exploded underground You know the sun shines Hotter than ever before Mother of us all Place of our birth We all are witness To the rape of the world Some claim to have crowned her A queen With cities of concrete and steel But there is no glory no honor In what results From the rape of the world Mother of us all Place of our birth We all are witness To the rape of the world She has been clear-cut She has been dumped on She has been poisoned and beaten up And we have been witness To the rape of the world Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the world If you look you'll see it with your own eyes If you listen you will hear her cries If you care you will stand and testify And stop the rape of the world Stop the rape of the world Mother of us all Mother of us all Mother of us all Mother of us all