<P>I remember as a child being scared of a Russian nuclear missle attack. But then my stepfather was in the Air Force and liked to scare me with stories of how evil Russians were. He would have been in one of the "better seats" to watch it, due to the huge tracking screen maps where he worked, alongside the colonals and generals orchestrating things. A Russian submarine launched nuke would have taken them out early in the game. My stepfather used to console me by saying "but if they get us, we will get them just as bad or even worse." My young schoolyard mind was very consoled by hearing that. </P>
<P>The irony is that as an adult I attended a college in Alaska crawling with hundreds of Russian students sent over on partial scholarships to major in business. Instead of appealing to them about American democratic ideals, the idea was to "seduce" them with capitalist greediness. lol I still cannot get over how many of their young women were so drop-dead gorgeous. They must have a secret eugenics/genetic engineering program over there! lol The girls tended though to be very reserved and aloof, or at least until senior year when some of them would decide it was time to get an American guy because they did not want to go home...</P>
<P>I am not very anxious about things now, though the shadowy enemy we fight now is in many ways worse than the Soviets. It's sort of like we are fighting the Viet Cong on a global scale, and they are intent on taking things to our own shores. I realize there is a real threat out there, but I am MUCH MORE WORRIED about us losing our civil liberties than I am even an American or European city. I see this "war on terror" as being a tool of sorts for those who want to manipulate things their way. Prime examples being Bush and those who control him. <BR>
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The Society for Venturism has plans to make our upcoming cryonics community, Ventureville, as self-sufficient as possible. And should Phoenix or even a multitude of U.S. cities be hit, we intend to survive by having the necessary resources of food, medicine, power and even weapons/barricades for self-defense. What may even be more dangerous for us than the terrorist, is the city person who feels that with the at least short-term breakdown in law enforcement, that they can steal, kill or rape with impunity. </P>
<P>Should they come our way with that attitude they will be in for a very rude awakening. Mad Max cryonicists, here we come!</P>
<P>Best wishes,</P>
<P>John Grigg</P>
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<B>On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:35 , 'Olga Bourlin' <fauxever@sprynet.com> sent:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As a personal aside, in the last year or so I've had the worst dreams of my life regarding "end-of-the-world scenarios" caused by explosions - nuclear bombs and such (actually I haven't had nightmares any like this, ever - and they've been coming intermittently but consistently). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is anyone else on this list as worried as I am? Does anyone see any end in sight? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Re the 9/11 Commission Report: "The report offers vivid details on our worst fears. Instead of focusing on immediately hitting back at Osama, Bush officials indulged their idiotic idée fixe on Saddam and ignored the memo from their counter-terrorism experts dismissing any connection between the religious fanatic bin Laden and the secular Hussein."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Olga</FONT></DIV>
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