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The government doesn't have to ask me to report anything truly suspicious. I'd do it in a second, all I need to know is where to call. Americans have done this during every war we've ever fought, including the Revolutionary War.

I remember just after Sept 11, several months after: I had finally found a copy for sale of a book on the Arabs by David Pryce-Jones (now re-issued), found it at a bookstore in India, of all places! And the price was very low, and the shipping cost very low.

When the postman brought the package to my door, he looked at me very, very closely. It flustered me for a moment. Usually the postmen prop my packages behind the screen door and just leave them. This man wanted a look at me. Finally I realized what was going on, and told him that it was a book and how I came to be ordering it from a shop in India. He was obviously then perfectly satisfied and left.

I was not offended. In fact, it was a reassuring experience. I don't think alert citizens in any job is a bad idea.

I agree, in fact I tried to do this when I grew suspicious of one of my students at my inner city high school...but my job was threatened by my principal!

But, I have a buddy I shoot with thats an FBI Agent and turned the kid over to him who began an investigation and turned up...well...I can't talk about it, it seems to be ongoing and the INS is now involved.

See, the liberals control the schools and the inner city is just packed with disaffected students who might be linked to terror cells via the internet. Disaffected liberal TEACHERS and ADMINISTRATORS turn a blind eye to the threat in their midst! In this case, the student was a pakastani national here on a student visa who was bragging to everybody that he and his daddy were going to train in Yemen with Al Quaida (sp?) and join the terrorists. He is no longer in school...and I don't know what happened. But the FBI did come to the school and interview staff. When THAT happened, all threats against my job just went away.

In fact, I passed my official observation with a "DOIN' GREAT! SEEEEE YA!" kind of pop in and pop out of my classroom. Very unusual. I mean I always pass...was a social studies teacher of the year a while back, but THIS....was weird!

There has been a focus on the college levels for these people on student visas but I think a far more dangerous threat exists in our high schools. Anybody with any contacts at all in law enforcement or a governors office ought to be urging local officials keep an eye on this segment! The kid who flew his airplane (cessna) into the tampa office building was in high school. In the inner city I hear it all the time they feel they have "nothing to live for..." etc so they are perfect dupes to use in a suicide bomb attack. Very easily manipulated because they are so uninformed and brainwashed by the liberals.....