[Milsurplus] Re: Europeans and Americans.

[J. Forster]

RIGHT ON !!!!!!!  As with some other insidious diseases, the real harm comes
from the body (politic)'s reaction, not the original infection.

-John



Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:

> 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