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Subject: 
Sorting Air Safety (Re: Rooting out nests of snakes and destroying them)
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Date: 
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:15:35 GMT
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It appears to me that your post is nothing but a troll for a bunch of angry
replies... but I may be wrong.

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> To the people who think that the subject line isn't the right way to view
> what needs to be done now, I would invite you to suggest another course of
> action.
> 
> Ignoring the problem isn't going to work.
> Appeasement isn't going to work.
> Sanctions aren't going to work.
> Cruise missiles lobbed in from a safe distance aren't going to work.
> Turning the free world into a police state isn't going to work. (1)
> 
> So what *will* work? I think we all want to know. Don't just take pot shots
> at the big bad US-Israeli axis. It's old "news"(2). Let's hear concrete
> proposals.

I'm glad you have broken your own moratorium Larry, I have been waiting to
ask you if you still think removing federal involvement in air safety
regulation is a good thing? Do you think a deregulated air safety regime
would have prevented the hijacks on Tuesday – or even made them less likely?
I ask this within the context of my knowledge that the air industry
effectively watered down the proposals made during the Clinton administration.


> 
> 1 - I just got back from GRR where I returned my rental and picked up my
> car. Spooky. Dogs everywhere, concrete barriers, no cars within 300 feet
> unless escorted, rental lots relocated to far away, Way overreacting I
> think, but just a harbinger of more to come, I fear.
> 
> 2 - "news" in the sense that it is an incomplete and largely false picture.

Show what is false Larry. Show us.

Scott A

> 
> ++Lar



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  Re: Sorting Air Safety (Re: Rooting out nests of snakes and destroying them)
 
(...) What is being proposed is not Air safety but Defense against forign (or possibly domestic) attack. Defending the people is a primary function of any governnment even under the most libertarian models. Lester (Who almost always agrees with (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Rooting out nests of snakes and destroying them
 
To the people who think that the subject line isn't the right way to view what needs to be done now, I would invite you to suggest another course of action. Ignoring the problem isn't going to work. Appeasement isn't going to work. Sanctions aren't (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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