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09/17/2001 Archived Entry: "17-September-2001 -- Rift Zones"

Rift Zones (Doc Searls) -- "One is over the matter of racial and religious profiling, both in our hearts and in security screenings at airports and elsewhere. The fact that apparently all the perpetrators of last week's atrocities were Arabic Muslims will be too hard for many of us to ignore. The other is over the matter of patriotism. Most of us support the President's committment to this new war, whatever it might turn out to be. A minority of us are opposed to it, or at least trying to talk across differences of opinion. In both cases, there is an Us vs. Them mentality at work. We should be careful about it. Especially once the war starts and the dead start coming home."

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