Replying to a message of Maurice Kinal to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hey Roy!

 >> Here it is,  the anniversary of 9/11,  and I really don't have a whole
 >> lot to say about it. Except that I'm *really* getting tired of hearing
 >> the talking heads raise the issue of "how much safer the
country is"
 >> over and over and over...

 MK> Do you think it is safer?

It isn't any safer today than it was half a century ago.  Unfortunately,
it's rapidly morphing into a police state that only people like Lavrenti
Beria could love.

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