"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message ...

If anyone wants to start changing things in America, they need to start
changing politicians. And, I don't even care what "party" is changed--they
are all essentially the same.

I'll have to disagree with you a bit here, Kim...

I think before we change politicians, we have to change
ourselves...What we want from govenment, the kind of conduct we expect
and what we are willing to pay for with our taxes.

Americans will scream bloody murder about thier "rights" and the
amount of taxes they pay. Yet they scream even louder when a group of
men get together and commit a horrific act like September 11th and
they wonder why the government doesn't "do something".

Can you imagine the outpore of anger that would have occured if
those 20 men had been arrested on September TENTH...?!?! The ACLU, The
Arab-American League and who knows who all else would have been all
over the press about how we were infringing on thier rights.

But what gauls ME is how people will get indignant about how our
politicians SHOULD be, yet "we" allow someone like Bill Clinton off
the hook despite having been caught lying over and over. Then his
wife gets caught stealing "things" from the White House, and what do
they do? They elect her to the Senate of a state she enver held
residence in.

DO you know WHY she didn't run for office from her HOME state?

WHY should we NOT tolerate them lying about anything else if
we're going to send a message that it's "OK" for the President of the
United States to violate the very same "sexual harrassment" laws that
are now prevelant in every workplace save porno movies and stripper
bars?

As for the cost of things...Well, all I can say is you get what
you pay for. We hamstrung our intelligence agencies for almost 30
years and now we are wondering why they can't "know" certain things.
The business of intelligence is dirty, often conniving, and usually
ugly. Our adversaries know this. That's how they manage to stay in
step with us all too often.

73

Steve, K4YZ