Hanna, kidkboom thank you for understanding.

Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
I thought Kazakhstan was friendly with the USA? Aren't there lots of American companies in Kazakhstan, you are selling oil and gas to Western companies etc.... ? USA usually put those countries on their "terror lists" that won't do business with it in the way that the USA wants... Maybe Kazakhstan has done something that upset the USA lately? Can you think of anything?
We really sell oil and gas to Western companies. Maybe you are right and USA wants to do business that way they want.

Quote Originally Posted by kidkboom View Post
As far as the list: It's kind of a necessary evil. Of course things could be run differently.. Government is similar to money - things could be run differently, money could be spent differently... but it's always the same TYPE of person who controls both. And they tend to fall into the behavior patterns of whoever came before them.

Our legal policy is meant to be "Innocent until proven guilty." So.. If our local police sheriff singled out 300 names in the state, of people who he thought should be on his 'watch list' and then followed them around all day, we'd be highly offended. It would be a breach of privacy rights.

But the other side of the coin is: That does happen, anyway, despite its illegality. It happens in my hometown all the time - illegal wiretapping, surveillance, search and seizure.. I'm thinking the same thing goes on in the govenment - bending the rules and breaking the morals. They SHOULDN'T be making such lists. But they do anyway.

If it helps, American people don't like this one bit, I think. That's what it seems like to me.

Kazhaks are some of the nicest people I have ever met.
Thank you for your opinions.