-> ->> Americans have been loosing there freedom in other way. When they   
   chose   
   -> ->> to support Israel in its unjust ways in Palestine they at long last   
   had   
   -> ->> brought terrorism to the mainland.   
   ->    
   ->  FS> While it's true, Israel occupied Palestine in the late   
   ->  FS> 1940s illegally, a similar beginning applies to all nations   
   ->  FS> -- including the US.  A stronger group takes over a weaker   
   ->  FS> one.  (Ask the American Indians about their history.)   
   ->  FS> Since Israel has now occupied that land for six decades,   
   ->  FS> they now have as much right to it as do the Palestinians.   
   ->    
   ->  I have made the point over and over, the only right Israel has   
   ->  to exist is the fact that it exists.   
      
   Good to see yet *another* convert following my lead!  ... [smug] ...   
       
   ->  FS> I don't believe the US should support *any* foreign   
   ->  FS> country, including Israel, Egypt, etc.  However Israel has   
   ->  FS> the right to live in peace!   
   ->    
   ->  Only they have to let their neighbors live in peace. They also   
   ->  have to deal with the fact that the inhabitants who were there   
   ->  before they were are still there.   
      
   Wot you have said, Bob, is wot we skilled writers refer to as a cliche ...   
   [sigh] ...   
       
   -> ->> After that Americans are not any   
   -> ->> more free people. You are tapped, you are searched at airports like   
   -> ->> criminals, they cannot freely and safely travel around the world,   
   etc.   
   ->    
   ->  FS> We are NOT searched at airports "like criminals".  The   
   ->  FS> airport searching is in the interest of our own safety.  If   
   ->  FS> you don't like being searched -- and *I* don't -- then you   
   ->  FS> can refuse to take a plane anywhere and travel via other   
   ->  FS> means.  As *I* do.   
   ->    
   ->  Besides, criminals are not searched as deeply as air travelers.   
   ->    
   Of course not!  Wot's the point of even *being* a criminal if they're gonna   
   expose your occupation at every airport you visit!  Be reasonable!!   
   ->    
   ->  FS> That's true enough.  Furthermore my sympathies lie with the   
   ->  FS> smokers ... and *I* do not smoke!   
   ->    
   ->  Mine don't. Smokers still have the right to smoke, just not   
   ->  inflict it on non-smokers.   
      
   "Breathe somewhere else, Buster!" is wot *I* would say if I still were a   
   smoker.   
       
   -> ->> A Christian priest is afraid to cite the Bible that sodomy is   
   -> ->> abomination. Probably, very soon any Christian will be considered as   
   an   
   -> ->> offender, just because he reads the Bible.   
   ->    
   ->  FS> It will never come to that, though some will make an   
   ->  FS> attempt to crush Christianity!   
   ->    
   ->  Yes. Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck among them.   
      
   Of course you say the above in jest ... heh heh heh ...    
      
   All these years, yet I haven't *ever* heard Limbaugh's radio program.  I   
   saw one of his TV shows, but didn't care for it much, so I've seen only one   
   of them.      
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