[Milsurplus] Re: Europeans and Americans.

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

Wammes Witkop wrote:

>Well, I *do* recall the days when I would order Field Phones from you 
>without red tape. Things have changed...
>It does not me make you hate Americans. But I do sometimes feel you have a
>slightly over careful government, to put it politely.
 
Too damned politely, IMHO. Whoever did the 911 deed, won: we are 
no longer a free country. We no longer have real freedom of speech, or 
of privacy, or of association, or of many other things we took for granted a
few years ago, like owning ex-military equipment. 

We have become a dictatorship of the most insidious kind and
most of our people are too dumb, or too blind, or too lazy, or too scared 
to see it. 

All in the name of "security". 

As someone once said, "Those who trade freedom for security, 
will have neither.", and, boy, it's sure true.

Ken Gordon W7EKB