"Dave" wrote in message
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On 22 Feb 2006 09:25:48 -0800, "Joe" said:

I'm even OK with a chain of King Tut, or Abaulla Bob's gas (petrol)
stations. But somethings stinks with this port deal.

I'm not sure how I come down on the substance of this one, but one thing's
clear--all the screaming and yelling reflects pure Xenophobia rather than
a
reasoned analysis. And now no matter how it's resolved, it will come back
to
bite us.

What Joe has described clearly is not Xenophobia, but rather a well
reasoned, fair and logical response to the situation.

Xenophobia denotes a phobic attitude toward strangers or of the unknown and
comes from the Greek words ????? (xenos), meaning "foreigner," "stranger,"
and ????? (phobos), meaning "fear." The term is typically used to describe
fear or dislike of foreigners or in general of people different from one's
self.

Joe has no problem with Middle Easterners running business in the US, he
just objects to foriegn interests, namely Middle Eastern, running our
ports. Ports are a point of entry into the US. Ports are a bottle neck to US
foriegn trade. Just as the US didn't want Communists running our security
clearance systems, why would a reasonable person want a Middle Eastern
company involved with our ports? It is the stated aim of Muslims to kill
infidels (not much different from Communist Doctrine). People from these
countries come here and attack the US, killing citizens. Americans are
killed in these countries. US ships have been attacked in ports in those
countries. Shipping is the easiest method of delivering large weapons to the
US. They don't even have to get into port to do significant damage. The
Middle Eastern countries lack security measures, technology and US
jurisdiction to gaurantee a level of security comfortable to reasonable
people. Yes, yes there are many nice and peaceful Muslims but those are not
the ones of concern. Why make it any easier for people who want to harm
America when there are better alternatives?

Why is Bush "cracking down" on American citizens but yet opening the door
for foriegners to get into this country so easily? The Southern Border is
wide open and now the ports to be run by Middle Easterners? Yet an old lady
can't carry a nose hair clipper onto a plane?

Something really stinks about this port deal. American citizens are being
sold out.





One of Lenno's lines last night made me laugh at the foolishness and just
plain ignorance of his Hollywood script writers. Something about turning
over operation of our ports to a country that's all desert. What planet do
these people live on? Do they think oil gets carried from the Mideast to
the
US via a transatlantic pipeline? Duh...