Jay Beckman wrote:

C'mon Tom,

Did you have to stand in line for 12 hours today to get bread and a couple
of tins of month old sardines? Did you have to walk to work because there
was no gas to be had for your car? Are you wearing multiple layers of
clothing right now because you have no heat? Are you sharing your bed with
6 other people?

Notice anyone at work stopping and taking notes while you talked to a
co-worker? Any strange clicks or beeps when you used your phone? Did you
feel as if you were being followed as you came home? Did you notice that
the left turn lane had cops standing there so that only large black limos
could use those lanes?

Are there armed men kicking in your door right now? Are they confiscating
everything you own and getting ready to give you a 9mm labotomy or worse?

Are they hearding your family into a truck and taking them away so that
you'll never see them again? This is, of course, after they make a couple
of other stops to collect your parents, your brothers and sisters and that
maiden aunt you love so much.

You used 6 words...I used 4 paragraphs but hyperbole is hyperbole.

We ain't the Soviet Union ... not by a damn sight.

Jay Beckman
Chandler, AZ



You mean the old Soviet Union, right?