On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:30:40 GMT, "Peter D" [email protected] wrote:

"Tracy Barber" wrote in message
As to my previous post, the govt. didn't know who were spies and who
weren't and couldn't take the risk.

I'm sorry, Tracy, but that doesn't matter. Otherwise they might as well lock
everyone up. I mean that's the only guaranteed way to get all the spies,
yes?

The 'downside' of a democracy is that it is, well 'democratic'. the 'upside'
of a fascist state is that it is well, a fascist state. Democracies don't
lock people up for what they might be. They lock people up for _actions_
that can be _proven. They dont' lock people up because of their ethnicity or
colour. Ideally, that is.

Sorry, but it's easy to see things in hindsight that with foresight
are blinded.

Let's agree to disagree about the STATE OF THINGS in 1941, not looking
back on it today.

Were we there? No.

Tracy Barber