On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:53:00 GMT "Dudley Henriques" wrote:


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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:32:04 GMT "Dudley Henriques"
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:32:17 GMT "Dudley Henriques"
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Flight Sim enquiry raises terror alert
By Andrew Orlowski in Las Vegas
Posted: 08/01/2004 at 22:39 GMT
A mother's enquiry about buying Microsoft Flight Simulator for her
ten-year-old son prompted a night-time visit to her home from a
state
trooper.

Julie Olearcek, a USAF Reserve pilot made the enquiry at a Staples
store in Massachusetts, home to an earlier bout of hysteria,
during
the Salem witch trials.

So alarmed was the Staples clerk at the prospect of the ten year
old
learning to fly, that he informed the police, the Greenfield
Recorder
reports. The authorities moved into action, leaving nothing to
chance.
A few days later, Olearcek was alarmed to discover a state trooper
flashing a torch into to her home through a sliding glass door at
8:30
pm on a rainy night.

Olearcek is a regular Staples customer and schools her son at
home.
The Staples manager simply explained that staff were obeying
advice.
Shortly before Christmas, the FBI issued a terror alert to beware
of
drivers with maps, or reference books.

At one time it was rare to find US citizens, in the safest and
most
prosperous country in the world, jumping at their own shadows. Now
we
only note how high.

It could also be noted that incidents like this are isolated rather
than
the
general norm. This specific incident was overplayed because the
person

It could be noted but it isn't true. There are plenty of knee-jerks
like
this
going on everyday. Do you think every one makes the news?


involved on the receiving end was a pilot. People are not jumping at
their

This makes no sense. In what way was it overplayed? The person
involved
was 10 years old. It was overplayed because our rights to freedom are
being trampled.


own shadows in America. If anything, there's a huge problem with
people


People are shooting at their own shadows. 10,000 gun related per
year.
(or more??)

generally beginning to take on a "relaxed" attitude about the
country
being
hit again.
These incidents are going to happen, and they're going to happen
again,
so
you better get used to it. When you have retail store managers with
good


It's surprising to think that anyone could buy into the drivel you
seem
to have bought into. Wait until you're hauled off and detained with
no
reason given.


intentions but absolutely no training in security matters at all
calling
meetings and "briefing" young impressionable sales clerks on the
importance
of reporting "anything suspicious" because they have received a
flyer
from
"headquarters" or seen something on the nightly news, this kind of
thing
is
going to happen.
The bottom line is that we're caught between what we should be doing
to
be
secure, and what we're actually doing to be secure. It's a mess out
there.
There's some security, but not nearly enough has been done. We're
caught
between our freedom and how much of that freedom we're willing to
give
up
for security. It's a HUGE problem that's filled with pot holes. We
have


There are not enough freedoms to give up to get the safety you seem to
think
we can get.


every faction with an agenda to grind flailing away at every attempt
to
make
the nation more secure. In fact, I think it's safe to say, from what
I've
seen so far at least, that we're as afraid and suspicious of our own
government as we are of the terrorist situation, perhaps with
reason,
perhaps not...who the hell knows?


Well our own government has lied to us so many times recently you
don't
know what to believe do you? They've done all kinds of horrible
things to
our
own people. LSD testing on unknowing, unwitting military test
subjects.
Chemical spraying on "special" ops teams in Hawaii. Lying about WMDs.
Just
today there's a report that Bush was planning the Iraq invasion
pre-9/11.


So if you're not afraid and suspicious of our own government then you
must
be very naive or conveniently ignorant. As far as I can tell the only
people that like Bush and Co. are the very rich. Anyone else is naive
or
a fool if they think this admin. is doing them any good. If you're
under
$500,000/yr you are taking it you-know-where. Have a close look at
AMT if
you are in disbelief. If you like your money you can't like Bush and
Co.


The bottom line is that along with these security warnings going up
and
down, and the agendas floating around trying to tear the country
apart
with
conspiracy theories, you're going to have little old ladies hassled
at
the


What conspiracy theories?


airport for their nail clippers; old men of 96 taken aside and made
to
strip
down to their shorts; clerks at Staples showing the boss that they
are
"contributing" to the overall "concerns" of their employers; and
young

blah blah blah


middle eastern looking men passed by security because no one wants
to
look
like their profiling.


What? Do you have some instances of this happening? I don't believe
you.


Hell, all you have to do is take a good look at the posts that might
follow
mine here to see how absolutely divided we all are on this issue
:-)))

Divided is not the issue it's about getting facts as opposed to
concocting
incorrect conclusions.

R. Hubbell

LOL!
Hell Hubbell, this post is so filled with personal agenda and conspiricy
theory that it's literally impossible to deal with it even if I wanted
to,
which I don't :-)

It is? Prove that point.


You win, The world sucks; the government exists only to hurt us, and
they're
coming to get all of us in the middle of the night, and the President is
a
............... what's the use....? :-))


Your reality has been skewed somehow. Care to say how? Or are you unsure?


Take care,
DH



Okay so you don't really have any counterpoint so you would rather steer
the
discussion to a close. That's fine with me too. Maybe you just weren't
expecting a reply that questioned your position.

I hope you have a lot of money because Bush and Co. are good to those that
do. And the ones that don't have a lot are good for those that do have a
lot of money. Rich people love middle-class republican voters. You help
them hold on to their money.


R. Hubbell

As I said, you are right about everything; I have no issue; the world is the
way you see it; Bush is bad; yes I'm rich: and I just remembered why I don't
like to post here and usually don't.

Well if you want to post gibberish and not get any response just create a
special subject, like Subject: GIBBERISH -- the real subject

Maybe you don't like to post here because you can't engage in a point-counterpoint
style of discussion? Or because you're afraid of encountering a viewpoint
different from yours or both? Fair enough.


Hey, you can always use your killfile mechanism to sanitize your world like so
many others here do.


R. Hubbell

See ya!
DH