Re: I don't know who's leaking this stuff...

Berny wrote:
> "JustPlainBill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> 
> Gee, that is exactly what the average German was saying after 1929., Then
> the average German except for Jews, then except for socialists, then
> Gypsies, then....
> ..
> And then people just put their heads down knowing that, there was nothing
> they could do without fatal consequences, but that one day, this too would
> pass, which it did, after much suffering and death, in 1945
> 
> 
> And no, I am not making this up, I know about this from the personal
> experiences of family.
> 

Now before I reply proper, I don't mean to make it sound like I am 
brushing off what happened to the Jewish people.  Don't want you to 
think I am dismissing it.  Far from it.

But that was history, we sorted it. Cost a huge bunch of lives, but it 
was sorted.  The UK was the first to stand up to them and then 
'gradually' the rest of the world joined in.  But you would like to 
think that if some Country/Government started to think above its 
station, that the rest of the world would try to sort it out. (Can't 
quiet see the US Government liking being told it was being too big 
brother, but heck, thats what the rest of the world is for - we're not 
just a big oil storage depot).

I would like to think we've gone forwards, but in recent months, I have 
seen many references to the current US Government being more and more 
like the old Nazi Party back from the 40's.

So perhaps I should say that I would trust the UK Government to look 
after the data than I would the US Government.  (Thats only because I 
don't think you can fit much data on a 200Gig HDD and that is probably 
the limit of our IT systems in our security agencies, though we have 
just got our very own brand spanking new version of the FBI.  We will be 
your newest state sometime soon, then I will worry).