Though you highlight the apparent irresponsiveness of federal legislators it is important to recognize that other levels of government react differently. At NJ's Tour of Solar Homes yesterday (13 Oct 2001) I learned that NJ's legislators receive copies of newspaper editorials commenting on public policy and apparenelty have formulae for translating this and other public experssions into interest (i.e. a latter indicates 100 other people are probably interested, a phone call indicates 10, etc.)
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It occurred to me in a discussion (and I apologize if this has been mentioned) that this act could likely be conceived an act of information warfare. The only things that can be widely considered weapons in this case (if the present stories bear any truth) are the knives or hand held weapons used to forcibly hijack the aircraft. Everything else was a matter of knowing and timing what would otherwise be daily actions into a sequence of horrible events. Though I offer no solutions, I say this primarily in response to the piecemeal and technological solutions offered as a means of preventing this from happening again, since I hope the preventative measures can be implemented through an evaluation of the national conscience with respect to our foreign policy and practice. Those within American leadership seem in this case much more willing to accept the loss of hundreds or thousands of innocent civilians in the course of retalition than they are willing to accept the comparitively few judicial mistakes resulting in the death penalty. I simply don't think we are equipped to handle terrorism in any manner that can be considered just at this point. I think that we, if we consider ourselves leaders in this world, should demonstrate as much through a lack of military response.
Please write your congresspersons, please give blood and please continue to post about what can be done for those suffering.
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Though you highlight the apparent irresponsiveness of federal legislators it is important to recognize that other levels of government react differently. At NJ's Tour of Solar Homes yesterday (13 Oct 2001) I learned that NJ's legislators receive copies of newspaper editorials commenting on public policy and apparenelty have formulae for translating this and other public experssions into interest (i.e. a latter indicates 100 other people are probably interested, a phone call indicates 10, etc.)
It occurred to me in a discussion (and I apologize if this has been mentioned) that this act could likely be conceived an act of information warfare. The only things that can be widely considered weapons in this case (if the present stories bear any truth) are the knives or hand held weapons used to forcibly hijack the aircraft. Everything else was a matter of knowing and timing what would otherwise be daily actions into a sequence of horrible events. Though I offer no solutions, I say this primarily in response to the piecemeal and technological solutions offered as a means of preventing this from happening again, since I hope the preventative measures can be implemented through an evaluation of the national conscience with respect to our foreign policy and practice. Those within American leadership seem in this case much more willing to accept the loss of hundreds or thousands of innocent civilians in the course of retalition than they are willing to accept the comparitively few judicial mistakes resulting in the death penalty. I simply don't think we are equipped to handle terrorism in any manner that can be considered just at this point. I think that we, if we consider ourselves leaders in this world, should demonstrate as much through a lack of military response.
Please write your congresspersons, please give blood and please continue to post about what can be done for those suffering.