[MD] A President's blog

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

>From: "david buchanan" <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] A President's blog
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:23:32 -0700
>
>Dan Glover said:
>I read in an article in the newspaper today that the President of Iran, 
>Dr.Ahmadinejad, has sent the American people a letter... And what he says 
>makes quite a lot of sense if you read past all the holy stuff. I even 
>thought about inviting him to join our discussion group here but on second 
>thought I figured dmb would probably chase him away so I didn't.
>
>dmb says:
>Go ahead and invite him. Its okay.

Dan says:
Awesome. I will fire off an invite at once.

>
>You'd be surprized at how polite I can be to a man with nukes.

Sure. It does make a person stop and think, doesn't it.

>
>Plus I'd be able to tell all my neighbors that I regularly chat with the 
>President of Iran.

Ah, the wonders of the Internet.

>
>Why do I feel paranoid all of a sudden? What would your government think of 
>citizens chating openly with the axis of evil guy?

Well, he could always take on an assumed name, right?

Seriously though, let's just look at how far our personal liberties have 
eroded over the past few years. I have to admit to a feeling of paranoia 
myself; when I tried to close down Dr. Ahmadinejad's website my computer 
froze up. How weird is that I wonder. My computer never freezes up.

What it  comes down to is: we the people have to be ever vigilant when it 
comes to personal liberty and freedom. This isn't Red China or North Korea. 
This is the USA. Do we really need to remind people of that? Apparently we 
do! Starting with the one man who should know better... the President 
himself.

>Here is the US one need not be a tin-hat wearing homeless guy to believe 
>they'd want to monitor that. Its just a long-shot hypothetical thing, but 
>can you imagine what kind of scrutiny that would bring down these days? I 
>guess we only know part of what they're doing and hope that a good dose of 
>congressional oversight will expose the rest of their Big Brotherness.

We've certainly seen the end of innocence over the last decade...that's for 
sure.

Thanks for your comments,

Dan



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