Ridge: U.S. safer, dissent good

[Khephra]

Ridge: U.S. safer, dissent good

Security chief greeted by protests in S.F.

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By Alison Soltau
Of The Examiner Staff
[email protected]
Published on Thursday, July 24, 2003

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Cities like San Francisco look set to get their own color-coded terror alert system as the Department of Homeland Security steps up a war on terror whose battle plans range from tighter port controls to face-scanning technology, Secretary Tom Ridge told a packed audience in The City.

But fighting an all-out war on terror and protecting American's civil liberties are not mutually exclusive, and dissent is downright democratic, Ridge told the Commonwealth Club of California on Wednesday, even as scores of protesters raised their placards outside the Mark Hopkins InterContinental Hotel.

Ridge said the federal government wants businesses as the new recruits in the war on terror and has sent out a missive to companies nationwide appealing for creative and high-tech ways to make America safer.

"We must make use of the 'astounding enterprises' and 'magnificent dash and daring' Mark Twain saw so clearly here in California," Ridge said.

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[sexybomber]

1. uhhh

"'We must make use of the 'astounding enterprises' and 'magnificent dash and daring' Mark Twain saw so clearly here in California,' Ridge said."

I thought Mark Twain was from Kentucky or something...

on edit: oops, misread the quote. perhaps he went to california at some point...

[pfitz59]

3. Samual Clemens was from Missouri.....

Mark Twain gained famed as a journalist in the gold fields of California and silver mines of Nevada. Ridge should quote from Twain's later works, such as "War Prayer" and "Letters From the Earth". Twain would be the first to condemn the entire Bush* administration.

[Aristus]

5. Samuel Clemens wore a mask of rough hewn Western simplicity to

cover for the fact that he was remarkably sophisticated and worldly in reality. Just read stories like "The Diary of Adam and Eve" or "The Death Disk" if you doubt that.

Funny, shrubbie is the exact opposite. He wears the mask of a clownish buffoon to hide the fact that he really is a clownish buffoon.

[twilight]

7. you got that right!!!!!

I've read a lot of Mark Twain and he would have abhored and condemned * and his entire admin. for their vile acts!

By the way, Mark Twain was a lover of cats and rented them when he went away on vacations.

I bet he'd just love A$$crank & Rummy! :puke:

:kick:

[MrBenchley]

2. Friend good...fire arghhhhh!

Why is Ridge still employed? And what has he done with the more than $50 billion he's shot to hell?

[short bus president]

4. What's this?

Perhaps those FEMA compounds that have been popping up in rural areas across the country aren't for us - they're housing the secret armies of Calaveras County jumping anti-terror frogs...

[laconicsax]

6. How are the freepers taking this...

"But fighting an all-out war on terror and protecting American's civil liberties are not mutually exclusive, and dissent is downright democratic"

This must be tough for them.