<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><BR>----- Original Message -----  From: Richard Brekne</DIV> <DIV>  To: Pianotech  Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 2:32 = PM</DIV> <DIV> Subject: Re: Americus Vespucci [OT] [Amerigo} </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I must say I do find it odd that so often those individuals who = seem to so emphatically defend the moral integrity of Uncle Sam inc. are the same individuals who are out in the countryside on weekends keeping their = military skills honed just in case they need to rise up in armed rebellion = against this same U.S. ... just in case he gets aggressive towards the present day indigeonous.  Hard to sort it all out sometimes :) </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What can I say... its not a perfect world. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>RicB </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>    And your's is not a prefect vision of what = actually is going on in this Country, either, Richard. That vision of people = "keeping up their military skills"  is probably limited to one thousandth of = one percent of the population, strickly paranoid types, but boy!, doesn't = the media like to play them up, as if they were stereotypical of any broad section = of the population. But, I see that you've bought into it, because you saw a = program on TV.   I thought your analytical skills were better than = that.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Kevin.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>