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Posted by enigma on July 30, 2008, 7:16 am
mirjam@actcom.co.il wrote in
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>> Lee , do you have a lock on your door , so thieves won`t
> steal your goods ????
truthfully, no, i do not. i don't have much worth stealing,
unless you count beads & yarn stash. tv, stereo, all that
stuff is replacable. i don't live in fear.
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> Isn`t at least part of Security done to save lives from
> terrorists? that aim to destroy the world as we know it ?
> In our door ways and gates to public places , we are
> checked to the contents of our bags and i thank those
> guards , because they keep me from being killed by bombs
the people in power *tell* us that Security is to "protect"
us. perhaps a better way to do so would to actively work for
more equitable & fair policies that govern all, not by
violently punishing those who have little & see how those who
have much live, don't you think?
do you not think it odd that the US government has lists of
millions of US citizens that aren't allowed to get on
airplanes, most of them for absolutely NO reason? there are
newborn babies on the No Fly list! children who are already
rejected by the government to have free rights. don't you
think that those second class children will grow up to resent
that same government & possibly become terrorists *because* of
it?
i am not afraid of being killed, by bombs, by auto accident,
by a falling tree. we *all* die when our time is over. no
matter how long a life you have, it's way too short to live in
fear & i will not allow fear to rule my actions.
lee <who has cancer & that's not going to beat me into fear
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Last night while sitting in my chair
I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.
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Posted by enigma on July 31, 2008, 11:07 am
mirjam@actcom.co.il wrote in
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> Even before 9/11, this happened all over the
> world , but i would have thought that after 9/11 , it was
> clear to all , A group of people who have no respect for
> life at all , Are out there planning how to Destroy every
> aspect of modern life as we know it !!!! One can not fight
> them with sitting and hoping that your corner of the world
> won`t interest them = like you wrote =you have nothing
> worth stealing ,, Yes you have ,, YOUR WAY OF LIFE is WORTH
> STEALING BY THEM !!!!!
my way of life is being stolen by my government which is
using FEAR as a tactic to take away my freedoms.
why are there terrorists? because there is so much inequality
& so much fear of those different from ones self.
i am the world. the world is me. i will not fear, because i
am the same as the terrorists. yes, they may kill me, but
everyone dies sometime. it is my hope that i can work toward
showing that we are all alike & fear & destruction are not the
answer.
living in fear is letting someone else take your life slowly.
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> Many people in this country have been saved , because the
> Security guard in the doorway, spotted the Bomb [er] and
> stopped him/her from entering and making more damage
> inside.
your country is in a bad situation. mine is not, although the
current administration would have us believe it is. the
current administration is also making *your* country more
dangerous for it's people. how do you feel about that?
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> Terrorism doesn`t always arise from within [monitary or
> economic ]poor people, most times it arises from an group
> who uses those situations as well to enlist more people .
> The people who flew into the twin towers were educated ,
> quite well off .What `delicate more fair policy , could
> have changed their mind ???
there is no economic buffer for mental illness & fanaticism
to any religion *is* a mental illness. even being well-off
ones self doesn't keep one from seeing the inequalities in the
world, in fact, it makes it more obvious.
there are Imams that misinterprt the Quaran for political
reasons, just as there are religious leaders that misinterpret
the Old & New Testements of the Bible for their political or
economic reasons. God says, or Allah says, can be powerful
motivatiors for the disadvantaged...
the US has a sitting president that wants to start
Armageddon, but no one seems to think *he's* a terrorist...
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> I know it is horrid that many people have reduced
> opportunities to fly and moove , but WHY do you blame the
> Authorities , who have to take some measures to make for
> Easier safer flying and other transport ? why don`t you PUT
> the BLAME , where it belongs, on the Terrorists , on the
> Fundamental groups ,
because it's bureaucratic bumbling at it's finest, making us
"safer" by making lists of innocent people, by telling us it's
"for our own good". no, it's not! giving up freedom for the
*illusion* of safety is wrong! and the safety we're getting
*is* just an illusion! the terrorists are a convenient excuse
for those in power to limit freedoms of those they have power
over.
if they were truely concerned about terrorism, they would be
doing something about the reasons *why* it happens, not taking
freedoms away from people who totally aren't involved.
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> If a newborn is on such a list , i am sure some lawyer or
> human rights active group could help them. I have not heard
> about any Human right Activist making any demonstartions
> about such a issue. !!!!! How come? this is really a cause
> for demonstrating and Press writing about this ,,, !!!!!!
the ACLU has taken some cases. the media in the US treats it
as a humorous story, nothing to take seriously... but the
truth is that once you are on that list, you will NOT be
removed from it, age or innocence be damned.
the US media is pretty much a joke...
lee
--
Last night while sitting in my chair
I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.
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Posted by YW on August 1, 2008, 5:04 am
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> Thank you very much for making the Enormous effort to explain your
> opinions and share your knowledge with me , i really appreciate it ,,
> i always learn more from everybody here .
> mirjam
Hi Mirjam,
You gave plenty of good points here.
And real education and self education may be the best of them.
Unfortunately majority of people , as it seems to me, seldom go out of
their way to look for diverse sources of information except their mass
media even if they have access to it (and many actually don't,
remember that). I may say so because I lived in a few countries.
Sometimes it even never crosses their mind...
Speaking of that, security in Israel and here (US) seem to me to be
very different. When my daughter goes on the plane to visit her
relatives in Israel I feel great watching Israeli security doing their
job. Not so when I'm or my relatives are traveling in the US.
Warm regards,
Yulia
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Posted by on August 1, 2008, 11:41 pm
Hi Mirjam,
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> You gave plenty of good points here.
> And real education and self education may be the best of them.
> Unfortunately majority of people , as it seems to me, seldom go out of
> their way to look for diverse sources of information except their mass
> media even if they have access to it (and many actually don't,
> remember that). I may say so because I lived in a few countries.
> Sometimes it even never crosses their mind...
> Speaking of that, security in Israel and here (US) seem to me to be
> very different. When my daughter goes on the plane to visit her
> relatives in Israel I feel great watching Israeli security doing their
> job. Not so when I'm or my relatives are traveling in the US.
> Warm regards,
> Yulia
Thank you Yulia !!!
The reality of living with a situation, is always different than
having general `Wonderful ideal`
thoughts about, how things should be. I am not dismissinng Lee`s hopes
and wishes , i just know that in day to day life, we have to
compromise a bit. for REAL living.
Yes Yulia i know that in some of the countries /places were you lived,
information and or `other ideas`, were impossible to get. I hear many
stories by people who camne from there , listen , think about it and
still don`t know enough to talk about it, i can talk only about the
things i know about, either bt living through it or by very thorough
study .
When will you visit your relatives ???? if you do please meet me as
well !!!!
mirjam
Shabat shalom .
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Posted by on August 2, 2008, 10:50 pm
Lee yesterday we drove to an opening of a new Exhibition , in Ein
Harod ,
And as we passes the Mount of Megiddo , i thought about your very
serious letters.
thus i decided to tell you a little about Megido ,
Now you can visit here and see remnants of the Old Israelite time of
a Grain Silo, houses , gates etc,, and there is the Water Tunnel , A
tunnel that was dug to reach the water outside the walls of the city
and also to get out of the city hidden from any prying eyes ,,,
It was the Scene of the last fight [ in WW2 where Horses were
used .... and there are many more historical stories around this
beautiful mound that sits at the gates to the valley of Yizrael ,
facing Mount Tabor ,,,
mirjam
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