[filmscanners] Re: OT - Interesting story on privacy...orlackthereof!

["Sam A. McCandless" <samcc@vom.com>]

I didn't read the whining. So for all I know it was political too,
and I missed a chance to whine earlier. Not because politics is
off-topic, but because I've often had an overdose elsewhere, and on
the list it seems like pollution to me. I don't say this because Tony
Sleep is pure or Ellis is obnoxious to me or even because the
Greenspun quote is. It's just that I would prefer this list be a
politics-free zone.

Sam


> > Anyway -- I did not mean to turn this into long debate with no useful
> > outcome, so I will stop whining about the whining.
> >
>And we will stop whining about the whining about the whining. Can we
>now get to the dining?
>
>Ellis Vener
>
>"On July 3, 2003 George W. Bush, the most powerful man in the world,
>directly addressed Iraqis who are sniping and firing grenades at
>American troops:  "bring them on", he taunted, according tonews
>reports...this seems like a bad idea.  What better way to make a guy
>with an AK-47 feel important than by challenging him through a
>televised speech?
>And surely American boys will die as a result of this speech.  It
>sounds like W. is going  mano a mano with a young Muslim.  But
>having been a passenger on an airplane that makes a carrier landing
>does not make our President into a front-line soldier.  It will be some
>kid from North Carolina that gets killed.
>It wouldn't bother me to hear that an American foot soldier in Iraq was
>challenging the local ruffians.  But to hear a guy sitting at a desk
>6000 miles away doing it?  Why aren't military families objecting to
>this? "
>-Philip Greenspun, July 3, 2003

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