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From: rod/christine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: RE: {W&P} SV: The Republican Police State - An American Stasi
>
>
> Al Winslow wrote:
> >
> >
> > Claes Persson wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: rod/christine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 1:01 AM
> > > Subject: {W&P} The Republican Police State - An American Stasi
> > >
> > >
> > > > The Republican Police State - An American Stasi
> > > >
> > > > http://reason.com/links/links071602.shtml
> > > >
> > > > =================
> > > >
> > >
> > > The idea of TIPS is recalling storys from other times in other and more
> > > suspect countrys. There is always some excuse for a construction like
> > > this and this time there might be a good resan for it, but seen from
> > > Northern Europe this gives a bad taste in the mouth anyway. Too close to
> > >
> > > Stasi, KGB and likes.
> > >
> > > Claes
> > > §( :8-)
> > >
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > I don't like it myself. The US Postal Service has refused to
> > participate. Many Americans are very protective of our independence. We
> > are not a docile nation of sheep to be led into things that don't smell
> > right to us.
>
> ===
>
> The Postal Service has done an "about-face" - and is reconsidering the
> whole thing. Appropriations & Markup time on Capitol Hill will sway the
> Postman to deliver over the hapless, american citizen... the Stasi is
> around the bend. It's coming... sooner, rather than later - more,
> rather than less.
>
>
> Rod
>
--What I find curious is that the President can launch a proposal like this. He must
understand that many people can make the connection of this sceem to what really was
going on in the eastern Europe, or is he counting on that many enough are too ignorant
of history? Or does he really just mean well and is too naive to make the connection
himself?
Claes
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