Pete, while Clinton may be a "supreme opportunist politician" but, I cannot believe that he would ever physically perpetrate such an action against American citizens, as Milosevic has against citizens of Yugoslavia.

There are elements in the U.S. who would love to do this to anyone who is not white, male-dominated, i.e. a whole LOT of us. They have what they call the Northwest Imperative. Their white supremacy plan is to take over the northwestern states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming and have their own separate country sans gays, lesbians, feminists, mixed marriages and children, any ethnic minority, etc. etc.

I have been working with several human rights org. for the past several years and studied these groups a lot. I can tell you that they scare me a lot more than anything else going on right now. Yes, because they are in my face and backyard, but also because they use an insidious way of getting seemingly sane people to swallow their beliefs hook, line and sinker. Just like the religious right, they have inveigled themselves onto school boards, among clergy, banking positions, teaching and school principal positions, the list goes on.

Like zealots of old they preach their gospel of racial and other hatred to anyone with ears. In the not too distant past, they sent representatives, in Montana, to meetings a friend of mine was a guest speaker at. Their "goons" stood at the back of the room, hands across their chest, guns at their hips, doing their damnedest(sp?) to intimidate all in attendance.

Same friend attended an "expo" they put on in Denver, there they were with booths and info on how to get guns, ammo, store up food for "Armageddon", make your women obey and your children frearful, etc. It really was sickening.

The orgs. I've worked with recognise all of this is motivated by an extreme fear of anyone/thing that is different from them. To that end, they (the orgs.) seek to educate the general public about diversity and tolerance. They also realize that the white supremacists feel alienated and besieged, so they work on that angle, too.

Sorry, didn't mean to go so much, but had to say something about your comment re' Clinton, which got me to thinking about what I consider a real problem here in the States.

BTW, my youngest daughter, who is 21, has completed 2 yrs of criminal justice in college. From what she has learned there and from what she has felt ever since she was a little girl, she is convinced our country will see a violent revolution in her lifetime, and she's not thinking in her old age.

katl