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I have come across an article written by Michael Moore (you saw him on
TV many times).  Here are some quotes:

(In the interests of space in this newsletter, Michael Moore's
comments about security are abbreviated)

Here's a short list of my experiences lately with airport security:

At the Newark Airport: the counter can't find my seat ... so I get on
without a ticket!

At Detroit Metro Airport: I pass my deli lunch to the guard so it
doesn't go through the x-ray machine or the metal detector.  He
believes my word that "It's just a sandwich." At LaGuardia in New
York: I send my bag on the flight ahead of me.  Nobody knows what's in
it.

Back at Detroit: I take my time getting off the commuter plane and
find I'm alone and free to. wander on the tarmac.  I or my companion
could have taken aboard knives, razors, or hammer and chisel. Noone
stopped us.

Of course, I have gotten away with all of this because the airlines my
safety SO important they pay rent-a-cops $5.75 an hour to make sure
the bad guys don't get on my plane. That is what my life is worth -
less than the cost of an oil change.

Too harsh, you say?  Well, chow on this: a first-year pilot on
American Eagle (the commuter arm of American Airlines) receives around
$15,000 year in annual pay.

That's right - $15,000 for the person who has your life in his hands.

Until recently, Confinental Express paid a little over $13,000 a year.
 There was one guy, an American Eagle pilot who had four kids so he
went down to the welfare office and applied for food stamps -he was
eligible!

Someone on welfare is flying my plane?  Is this for real?  Yes, it is.

So spare me the talk about all the precautions the airlines and the
FAA are taking.  They, like all businesses, are concerned about one
thing- the bottom line and the profit margin.  Four teams of 3-5
people were all able to penetrate airport security on the same morning
at 3 different airports and pull off this heinous act?  My only
response is-that's all?

Well, the pundits are in full diarrhea mode, gushing on about the
'terrodst threat' and today's scariest dude on planet earth- Osama bin
Laden.  Hey, who knows maybe he did it.  But, something just doesn't
add up.

Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a
desert has been training pilots to fly our most modem, sophisticated
jumbo jets with such pinpoint accuracy that they are able to hit these
three targets without anyone wondering so far off path?

Or am I being asked to believe there were four religious/ political
fanatics who JUST HAPPENED to be sullied airline pilots who JUST
HAPPENED to want to kill themselves today?  Maybe, you can find one
jumbo jet pilot willing to die for the cause - but FOUR?  Ok, maybe
you can - I don't know.

What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about this
bin Laden guy except this one fact - WE created the monster known as
Osama bin Laden!

Where did he go to terrorist school?  At the CIA!

Don't take my word for it - I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that laid
it all out. when the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA
trained him and his buddies in how to conduct acts of terrorism from
Soviet forces.  It worked! The Soviets turned and ran, Bin Laden was
grateful for that what we thaught him and thought it might be fun to
use those same techniques against us.

We abhor terrorism - unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing.

We paid, trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the
1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians.  That was OUR work.  You and
me.

Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers?

We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent
people, and we never let the human suffering THAT, causes to interrupt
our day one single bit.

We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world,
with our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in
Salvador) that I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised when those
orphans grow up and are a little whacked in the head from the horror
we have helped cause.

Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted by
a guy from the desert but rather by our own citizens: a couple of
ex-military guys who hated the federal government.

From the first minutes of today's events, I never heard that
possibility suggested.  Why is that?

Maybe it's because the A-rabs are much better foils.  A key ingredient
in getting Americans whipped into a frenzy against a new enemy is the
all-important race card.  It's much easier to get us to hate when the
object of our hatred doesn't look like us.

Congressmen and Senators spent the day calling for more money for the
military; one Senator  on CNN even said he didn't want to hear any
more talk about more money for education or health care -we should
have only one priority: our self-defense.

Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure
when the rest of the world isn't living in poverty so we can have nice
running shoes?

In just 8 months, Bush gets the whole world back to hating us again. 
He withdraws from the Kyoto agreement, walks us out of the Durban
conference on racism, insists on restarting the arms race - you name
it, and Baby Bush has blown it all.

The Senators and Congressmen tonight broke out in a spontaneous
version of "God Bless America." They're not a bad group of singers!

Yes, God, please do bless us.

Many families have been devastated tonight.  This just is not right. 
They did not deserve to die.  If someone did this to get back at Bush,
then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for
him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California -
these were places that voted AGAINST Bush! Why kill them?  Why kill
anyone?  Such insanity.

Lets mourn, let's grieve, and when it's appropriate let's examine our
contribution to the unsafe world we live in.

It doesn't have to be like this.

Yours, 
  Michael Moore
	
End of quote.

Moore expresses the same thoughts as I did in my postings.

Fabrikant

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