>>>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/19/ronstadt.reut/
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>>>Ms. Ronstadt said according to a local television newsperson she did not like to perform in front of Republicans or the Religious Right. At least the lady speaks her mind.
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>>>In these days of Home Land Security and the Patriot Act you have to be careful. We thought Geroge Orwell went too far with 1984 - we have only just begun! :)
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>>>I am sure that I would never perform in front of a bunch of gamblers who were drinking. That crowd is one I avoid!
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>>"Hey, comrade, how much did you get?"
>>"Eight years."
>>"For what?"
>>"For nothing."
>>"Don't bullshi* me, they give ten years for nothing."
>>
>>I.e. sounds like a good moment to start discarding the mothballs off those old Soviet-era jokes...
>
>I suppose that you're referring to the 9/11 Commission report yesterday. I heard several members say that it indeed looks like some freedoms will have to be relinquished in order to have "safety".
>Given that even in jail "safety" doesn't exist it will be interesting to see how that all plays out!
>
>I like the joke by the way.

Jim;

The solution to our safety concerns to protect the people of our nation is really simple. Everyone leaves! :)

Even if you kill everyone in all nations but our own there are enough nuts that were born and raised here to destroy the United States. A sack or two of cow manure and up goes a building. Who needs nuclear weapons when there is so much manure in the world?

Freedom has become academic. It is not practicable. Read the words of Thomas Jefferson and others and you sense an idyllic state. Today our world and its reality are very different.

A different form of government is required. Memories of the George Lucas film THX 1138 are in my head. A perfect world. “We are here to help you”, said the policemen as they applied cattle prods to the citizens.

Tom