🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 28 May 2005 13:55:07 -0500, Don Hammer <dlh@aol.com> wrote:

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>>If they are no threat, why are they being chased and forced to land?
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>There are many things in this life that the government does to placate
>all the ignorant voters out there.  The average voter doesn't know
>diddle about airplanes.
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>Joe six-pack is sure that a 1200 lb Cessna that can't lift two 200
>pound people can do more damage than the 80,000 pound trucks that go
>by their front door every day.
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>The terrorists will strike again and it probably won't be in
>airplanes.  I'm betting on a truck, cargo container, or bus.  The
>question then is, will we all climb into caves and severely restrict
>them? 
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>There were over 13,000 murders in the US last year that had nothing to
>do with terror. It must be safer to be in Baghdad than Washington DC
>as the murder rates are lower.   When will all the dumb-asses get
>paranoid over that?

We kill off over 40,000 a year on the highways. Now there is something
to be paranoid about!  It's so common a fatal wreck only makes the
local paper unless it's spectacular of some one well known.  In a car
you are at the mercy of the other drivers.  Night before last  we had
a guy lose control out on the expressway, cross the median and take a
pick up truck head on.    What was left didn't even look like cars or
trucks, or even like they ever had been.  Alcohol was not involved,
but they figure the guy who lost control may have been doing close to
a  hundred.  One idiot and one just minding his own business.  Both
gone.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
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