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Subject: 9-11-01 (email not broken)
This has not been broken since 9/11/01, please keep it going...
This has been kept alive and moving since 9/11.
In memory of all those who
perished this morning; the passengers and the pilots on the
United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders. Our prayers go out to
the friends and families of the deceased.
IF I KNEW
If I knew it would be the last time
That I'd see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time
I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would video tape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time,
I could spare an extra minute
to stop and say "I love you,"
instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.
If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
Well I'm sure you'll have so many more,
so I can let just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow
to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything just right.
There will always be another day
to say "I love you,"
And certainly there's another chance
to say our "Anything I can do?"
But just in case I might be wrong,
and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you
and I hope we never forget.
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,
young or old alike,
And today may be the last chance
you get to hold your loved one tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow,
why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes,
you'll surely regret the day,
That you didn't take that extra time
for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone,
what turned out to be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today,
and whisper in their ear,
Tell them how much you love them
and that you'll always hold them dear
Take time to say "I'm sorry,"
"Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay."
And if tomorrow never comes,
you'll have no regrets about today.
Please send this on. Thank you.
1:59:28 PM 
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Here I quote my source in black then interject my comments in green. but I having troubles with the editing window doing underlining etc. and not letting me kill it.
[ Mike Cohen's Radio Weblog] [dws.] QUOTE
Overview of Changes to Legal Rights By The Associated Press September 5, 2002, 11:44 AM EDT Some of the fundamental... [WIL WHEATON DOT NET: Where is my mind?]
- * FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigation.
- Al Comments:
- The reality is that there are people with viewpoints that are contrary to the mainstream, and you are likely to find them by spying on Extremist Belief systems like Militia Groups.
- Recent history has shown that Law Enforcement Agencies need education by National Council of Churches how to tell the difference between a legitimate interpretation of holy books, in which people with odd ball views can be debated by representatives of other churches, and a group that is truely a Cult.
- I sure hope the monitoring does a better job than the last time this was done, like when the FBI Director was convinced that it was communistic to have peaceful civil disobedience to promote equal rights for Black Americans.
- A distinction clearly needs to be made between those people who disagree with some policy, but will stay within the laws in how they go through the procedures of trying to change the policy, and those people who will behave like enemies of the state in trying to achieve their goals.
- * FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.
- * FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.
- Al Comments:
- The unfortunate fact is that we are at war, and loose lips sink ships.
- The government does not know which people under investigation may turn out to be innocent or our enemies, but they certainly don't want other people tipping off the enemy with any details of how close the investigation is to them.
- * RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
- Al Comment:
- I think this is a dangerous precedent.
- It means that some guilty people will not tell their lawyers what these officers of the court need to know.
- I think a better approach might have been to make some adjustments to lawyer confidentiality.
- If a lawyer is told by a client something about a crime that has not yet occurred, the lawyer needs some way to alert authorities without being guilty of violating lawyer rules.
- * FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.
- * RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
- Al Comment:
- I believe that during the American Civil War, President Abe Lincoln suspended the right of Habeous Corpus.
- Some things do operate differently when a nation is at war than when it is at peace. People suspected of being part of the enemy can get locked up until the war is over.
- There has to be some way to get closure when a war is over, so that it does not lay seeds for the next one, like the Versailles Treaty at end of WW I laid the seeds for Hitler to come to power and give us WW II.
- I believe that after the American Revolution, many of the people who had been pro-British Tory, were so badly mistreated by their victorious neighbors, that they left the USA to go live in Ontario Canada, poisoning US-Canada relations so much that it might have contributed to the war between USA and Canada in 1812.
- In this latest war it seems like the enemy vows to continue the battle irrespective of what happens with their leadership, so that any enemy soldiers released will continue fighting. Thus this war will also need some kind of re-education to eliminate that threat.
- The book, Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War April '65 by retired CIA and military intelligence Brigadier General Wiiliam Tidwell, shows that the Assassination of President Abe Lincoln was probably part of a larger plot by the Confederate Secret Service, and the individual groups of people involved in the plot might not have known that the Civil War was really over.
- It will be important to prove one way or another which of the locked up people believed to be enemies, are in fact enemies.
- Large numbers of known al Queda terrorists have been captured in other nations, then set free to perform other mischevous acts against us, because those nations judicial systems are not the same as in the USA.
- * RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.
- Al Comment:
- Worth looking at history of Japanese Americans locked up during WW II but not German and Italian Americans, then long afterwards some recognition that this had not been handled properly, and some laws passed to prevent similar mistakes in the future.
- This is why I joined the ACLU.
UNQUOTE [Mike Cohen's Radio Weblog] [dws.]
1:38:04 PM
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For some people, Sep 11 is a day of remembering fallen heros. For me, the whole year has been days like that, and struggling with answers to questions related to how this war began and how to win a political victory against the social forces that lead some people to hating us in the West. I hope that, in time, Sep 11 will become like Pearl Harbor day, and the media circus that makes it seem like to them Sep 11 is bin Laden day, will find some days like VE day (WW II Victory in Europe) to the real celebrations. Did WW II have great days of celebration before the war was over, when our ancestors lacked certainty that the war would be won by the Allies? Well there was the Doolittle Raid over Japan, raising of the US flag on some Pacific island, and Allies liberating Paris. We are going to need some milestones like that in the War on Terrorism.
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