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Date: Mon Dec 19 04:22:08 2005
From: jpole at jcpa.com (Jamie C. Pole)
Subject: [Clips] A small editorial about recent
	events.(fwd)


Was that a joke?

I love Germany (it's one of the 24 countries that I have worked in,  
by the way), but be realistic.  All ethnocentrism aside, I'm not sure  
that welfare economies that tax the living daylights out of those  
lucky enough to have a job are a good idea.

JCP


On Dec 18, 2005, at 10:14 PM, GroundZero Security wrote:

> "we in the USA are still the luckiest people on  Earth."
> i would not count on that. i feel much saver/happy here in germany.
>
> "We've got it better than any other country on Earth."
> lol yeah right.. in your dreamworld maybe. did you even leave usa  
> before ?
> i doubt that.
>
> "If you like some other place better, please feel free to move  
> yourself there."
> yes thank you! i like it much more here in my country so i stay :-)
> i just have to fear that usa starts to take over the world thats  
> all i have to worry about here.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jamie C. Pole" <jpole@...a.com>
> To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 5:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] [Clips] A small editorial about  
> recent events.(fwd)
>
>
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I was also FAR too close to one of the 09/11 attacks.
>> While I agree that giving up (supposedly) certain civil liberties is
>> most decidedly not a good thing, we need to remember one key point -
>> the same liberal whiners that are complaining about the monitoring of
>> certain targeted individuals would be shitting themselves to get in
>> line to scream about the President not doing enough to protect us if
>> there was another attack.  This was not a blanket wiretap against
>> every citizen that made a telephone call to London.  These taps were
>> conducted under defined circumstances.  If you are not a terrorist,
>> and do not associate with terrorists, you have nothing to worry
>> about.  The indignation being shown by the liberals right now is
>> shocking - this information was not news to anyone within Congress
>> (from either party) that was in a position to know it.
>>
>> What good are civil liberties if you are being buried in a mass grave
>> as a victim of another terrorist attack?  Are you going to try to
>> exercise your freedom of speech from beyond the grave?
>>
>> I like Perry - he used to work for me back in the 90's, but he is
>> wrong about this.
>>
>> I know all of the cliches about freedom never being lost all at once,
>> and societies willing to trade freedom for security deserving neither
>> and having none (I know I butchered that one - my apologies to the
>> original author), and all of the other little jabs that liberals are
>> falling back on right now, but like him or not, there has not been
>> another attack on our homeland since 09/11.  Difficult decisions need
>> to be made from time to time, and Bush is making them.  I think it's
>> hysterical that most of the loudest of the loudmouths were strangely
>> silent when Clinton did many of the same things.
>>
>> Even with a government that is actively protecting us from these
>> terrorist scumbags, we in the USA are still the luckiest people on
>> Earth.  We've got it better than any other country on Earth.  If you
>> like some other place better, please feel free to move yourself  
>> there.
>>
>> JCP
>>
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