IP: American Freedom

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:46:06 -0400
> From: Brent Hunsaker <brent.hunsaker () alcatel com>
> Organization: Alcatel Network Systems Inc, Raleigh NC
>
> Dave,
>
> I have read through the various e-mail sent to you regarding the vigil
> needed to maintain our current level of freedom. My comment is this -
> that no new laws are needed to severely reduce our freedom. Yes, we
> depend on the rule of law. But that law can be suspended without any
> legislative action. During the Civil War, Lincoln suspended habius
> corpus, keeping many who disagreed with him behind bars. During W.W.II
> asians were forcefully removed from the coastal areas. In the south many
> blacks were routinely hung or killed with no laws invoked, protecting
> the killers.
>
> All we need is fear! That we now have.
>
> It will take a Herculean effort to maintain freedom for those who are
> not involved in this act, even though they may be of the nationality or
> religious belief of these criminals. When I awoke this morning, I
> listened to a woman who has interviewed many who have been involved with
> past terrorist acts. Her comment stuck in my mind, that these terrorist
> groups are hired guns, mercenaries, willing to use anyone, anywhere,
> anyhow to spread their terror. This is no holy war, it is just war.
>
> I wrote e-mails to my legislative representatives and the president
> awhile back regarding the ABM system being supported by the military.
> One of the many points I made against this system is that a rogue
> country was not likely to launch an BM against the USA because they love
> their home too much to have it destroyed by US retaliation. They will
> use terrorist groups (such as these yesterday) to do their deeds. It
> gives them deniability.  I did not know I would be so correct.
>
> Here is my text I send on this point.
> "...
> It defends against an unlikely attack."
>
> "No country will want to be faced with an all out war with
> the USA.  The rouge nations included.  They would face total
> obliteration at the hands of a nation that could turn their
> homeland into a barren waste land if they attacked using
> ballistic missiles.  The rogue nations do love their way of
> life and would prefer to attack the USA by stealth.  Or by
> small cells intent on local attacks, such as the bombing of
> the World Trade Towers in NY city."
>
> "Other Forms of Attack"
>
> "It would be far safer to import a nuclear bomb aboard a
> cargo ship.  Shipped in pieces through our boarders and
> assembled here.  Flown by a plane thought to be a stray.
> These are more easily deniable, blamed on extremist
> factions.  It is by these or other forms that I think the
> attack will come.  We must learn to defend against these
> more plausible and more difficult forms to protect against."
>
> We now face a future of war.
> Brent Hunsaker



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