You were giving Americans in general a by from terrorism and atrocity
simply because they were American. That is what I was disagreeing with.
There is nothing inherent in living in the US that makes people immune or
incapable of such acts.

larry

At 09:22 AM 1/15/2004, you wrote:
>No it's not.  All the data shows is that we are all capable.
>
>Ok your license is now suspended because your capable of drunk driving.
>
>This is silly.
>
>Some kids Honda is capable, with NOS and a turbo upgrade and about $20,000
>in parts, of beating me in a race.  Still hasn't happened yet.
>
>Risk Assessment and Prevention is about odds and percentages.  The
>percentages here say that fundamentalist islamist group export terror, not
>Americans.  BTW we are only requiring fingerprints from people that come
>from nations that we require to have visas.  That means not everyone, only
>those nations that already have a higher perceived risk associated with
>them.  If we are granting a person a visa to travel in our country have we
>not only the right but the responsibility to track and fingerprint these
>people?  How else can we enforce our immigration laws, much less our
>security issues?
>
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>Overseas Security Advisory Council
>U.S. Department of State
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Harkins, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:19 AM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: RE: US Pilot arrested after obscene gesture at Brazilian immigrat
>ion.
>
>
>That's a very good point, Larry.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>The data shows that no one is immune, regardless of nationality.
>
>larry
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