A week before the Atta Group carried out their provocation operation I attended a State Dinner in the Southern Cone. It was in Montevideo, and the President of the Republic and luminaries mingled with the visiting ICANN conference attendees. Then we all went off to watch a tango exhibition held just for us.
Yesterday the President of Chile declined to attempt to order the political and economic elites of the Southern Cone to pass through metal detectors in order to attend a State Dinner. It was a condition of the Bush Administration that all who draw nigh bare their necks.
Chile is a freer country than the United States. In Chile the political and economic elites will not bare their necks in order to dine with the President. In the United States the political and economic elites don't even question the demand -- even the Democrats running against the Bush Administration submitted without protest to "security wanding" inorder to travel by air, while campaigning for president of the land of the free, the home of the brave.
God I hope the traveling White House sycophants press corp drank the water.