On Thu, 12 May 2005 15:55:50 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in
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Those days are gone... Thank a F'ing lot! Bin Ladin!

this was not Bin Laden who brought all those restrictions ... it was ...
well, your own govt. .. but: *ssssshhhhhh!!*

Actually, it was half a dozen assh*les who decided to kill thousands of
innocents by using airplanes as missiles.

So those 19 dead terrorists passed the restrictive laws in this
country? Doubtful.

It was your elected government representatives who panicked, and used
public mass hysteria to enact a lot of stupid restrictions on the
American people in the name of strengthening security at the expense
of untold billions of dollars flowing into the pockets of law
enforcement agencies throughout the land. We've been had by our own
government politicians, in a far worse way than the terrorists could
have accomplished with a thousand fuel laden airliners.


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means the mental habit of the common man. Nothing could be further
from the mark. The common man is chiefly to be distinguished by
his plentiful _lack_ of common sense: he believes things on
evidence that is too scanty, or that distorts the plain facts, or
that is full of non sequiturs. Common sense really involves making
full use of _all_ the demonstrable evidence--and of nothing _but_
the demonstrable evidence. -- Henry Louis Mencken