In <BzMDI7.7JI.2@cs.cmu.edu> zitsky+@CS.CMU.EDU (Mark Ryan Miller) writes:
>In article <BzM8u5.JM3@unix.amherst.edu>, pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN) writes:
>|> Jyrki Kuoppala (jkp@cs.HUT.FI) wrote:
>|>
>|> : I hear reports of kids trained to inform to the officials about their
>|> : parents.
>|>
>|> That's plan silly.
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>It's amazing to me that citizens of the US will not doubt that crimes occurring
>in other countries are wrong, but when someone tries to tell them of questionable activities in their own country, they shrug it off, ignore it, or tell someone they must be lying or have false information. The 'sense of security and trust' here is sometimes scary.
Sorry Mark, I'm not blind to the faults of our government, nor am I blind
to areas where things can be improved. It's simply that I can't recall the
last time (or any time) when I stuck my nose and mouth into the internal
affairs of Finland, The United Kingdom, or the countries of any of the
other U.S.'s self appointed critics. If that pisses them, or you, off
