[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

"We don't worry about that terrorism thing too much anymore- we regard it as an East Coast thing" (!)

You see, they know that no terrorists will attack the Bay area with Congresscritter Barbara Lee holding the fort. Courtesy among thieves, don't you know! (or so they think!!)

[vikingcelt]

The people who live in the Bay Area and regard terroism as an "East Coast thing" are completely out of their minds. I had a mini nervous breakdown when we returned here last October after some weeks away (Ireland where I saw more American flags flying than the Bay Area and Rhode Island where everyone was flying the flag.) I came back here to culture shock. I truely thought that people's mindset would have changed after 9/11...even here (Oakland...6 miles from Berkeley) I was naive enough to think people would have changed. One of my first conversations upon returning here was with a neighbor who was obviously against our retaliation in Afghanistan. She said something about "big corporations" and that she felt the way she did because she had lived in other countries. She and her partner wanted to sit down over a cup of coffee and discuss "things"....I said there was nothing to discuss. They seemed shocked that I said that. We get truely frustrated here. The fact that Barbara Lee is ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO BE our Congress person just makes it that much worse.