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"Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in message
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This is not the same world that it was before 9-11.


Actually, it is. We are just trying very hard to pretend it is not.

There was terrorism before 9/11. There were nuclear bombs, ground wars,
air
wars, genocide, many *hundreds* of thousands of people killed on side or
another. There were oppressive dictators and benevolent democracies.
There
were the nourished, the privileged, and the starving. There were civil
airliners shot down. There were the "just" wars, and there were the
imperial
oppressions.

There were air blitzes on cities and countryside, with thousands dying.

What is so different now?

What is different is the U.S. government got involved and as it always does
in such situations its responds by punishing its law abiding citizens.