Will the new government have any effect on GA?

The news media is talking about the Iraq Study Group and
saying that part of the "new plan for Iraq" is to get Iran
and Syria to "help." What nonsense. Iran has won, why
would they change now?

Terrorism has won, the world will become very dangerous and
soon we will have a real world war being fought with nuclear
weapons and chemicals.

For those who do not know the history, the USA won the Viet
Nam war and had a peace treaty signed in Paris. But the
Congress was supposed to support the South. But the first
time a vote came up for money to supply food, medicines and
ammunition to the South, Congressional Democrats refused to
support the treaty obligation.
A few weeks later the North rolled their tanks into Saigon
[ Ho Chi Min City].

The American people have elected a Congress that promised to
do the same thing again. Adolph Hitler is laughing, Osama
is smiling and the western world is asleep.



"LWG" wrote in message
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|I think the connection is demonstrated in the liberal
belief that any
| problem can be cured with 1) more federal (they really
mean my and your)
| dollars, and 2) with more legislation. So we have 20,000
plus gun laws.
| Still have a problem? Just pass some more. Lather, rinse
repeat. Have
| problems with terrorists hijacking airliners? Have every
GA pilot file a
| flight plan in the ADIZ. Still worried? Ban GA flights
over Chicago.
|
| Most of this is feel good nonsense for soccer moms who
don't have the
| inclination or ability to use reason. Washington DC's gun
laws forbid
| anyone not named Carl Rowan from personal possession of a
handgun, but you'd
| better watch where you walk after dark. "Shall issue"
jurisdictions have
| shown a decrease in gun violence because while criminals
aren't particularly
| moral creatures, they aren't stupid. If I am going to prey
upon others, do I
| want to choose one who I know will be unarmed, or one who
might be able to
| fight back?
|
| The ADIZ stuff has been beaten to death here and
elsewhere. It's now mostly
| just a trap for the unwary and unlucky. I believe it adds
nothing to the
| safety of GA pilots or our earthbound bretheren. But it
sure makes you pay
| attention to the health and well-being of your
transponder.
|
| As for the election, I think this is the beginning of the
end of America's
| leadership role in world affairs. In the next two years,
Syria and
| Hizballah will invade Israel and overthrow the government
in Lebanon, Iran
| will move to control Iraq, Turkey will also move into
northern Iraq. The
| current Iraqi leadership will move its assets to
Switzerland and abdicate.
| China will invade and take over Taiwan. The United States
and Britain will
| suffer more terrorist attacks domestically and against our
interests abroad.
| North Korea and Pakistan will provide the means. "We"
will stand by
| watching and complaining, but our rhetoric will be
unmatched in the history
| of the world.
|
|
| I never understood the connection between aviation and
guns. A good way
| to assess this is to find out how many AOPA members are
also NRA
| members, or vice versa. I would guess that there is very
little overlap.
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