word on the street

[Kevin Robert Dean]

I've been hearing this argument a lot from the people
I've spoken to 'on the streets' (ie, non-activists,
ordinary Janes and Johns) about what to do about
terrorism and it goes like this:

"The US needs to stay out of the Middle East and leave
them alone.  The US needs to take care of its people,
corporations don't care about the little guy..."

So far somewhat good, but it always ends with:

"And we have to put a stop to immigration."

What has everyone else been hearing?

While the above example is the majority opinion of
people I've spoken to, every once in a while I get the
standard "Bomb em all over there, it doesn't matter,
they don't like us anyway"  (this is a small minority
of my already small samplings)

The second most heard argument is (after I lay out my
own argument against bombings and bring up the idea of
treating this as a criminal matter rather than a
military matter) "Well yeah, I don't like violence
either, but we have to do something!"  Sometimes
followed by "And if we rely on international law, what
do we do if they refuse to hand them over?" 

I don't know how to answer the last question, I'll
humbly admit.  Helpers?

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Kevin Dean
Buffalo, NY
ICQ: 8616001
http://www.yaysoft.com

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