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Old 03-15-2004, 07:43 PM   #172
Troubleshooter
The urban Jane Goodall
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Quote:
Originally posted by sycamore
TS, are you familiar with the McWilliams situation?
Nope, and I wasn't referring to it in any way.

We live in a wash of inequity, venality, banality, and vice. Conspiracies abound, collusion runs rampant, and coercion is the order of the day.

I am aware of that. I expect it. I'm not referring to any conspiracy or cabal trying to take our lives and freedoms away, I take that for granted.

As a sonar technician on a fast attack submarine, I've dealt with spooks, DIA, killers, Navy SEALS. I've met people that the only thing stopping them from looking right through me was the fact that I carry Top Secret information in my head. I've met the people who do the real dirty work. I know people who SCARE me.

Part of the reason they scare me is their unshakable beliefs. An unwillingness to accept the possibility of being incorrect.
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