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Pilots threaten strike if kept disarmed
by Optimizzin Al-gorithm 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

[Reformatted for legibility. Please take the few moments required to ensure that materials posted are readable. KMSelf] http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=5752 News - October 5, 2001 Pilots threaten to stop service if kept unarmed By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI Union Leader Staff Commercial airline pilots will be asked to suspend air service if they cannot have trained, armed pilots in the cockpits, a New Hampshire pilot said. A resolution that will be circulated among the various councils of the 67,000-member Air Line Pilots Association this month asks federal regulations be changed to allow for the voluntary arming of flight crew members, Robert Giuda, a United Airlines captain of Warren said. "Had we had armed pilots on Sept. 11, we wouldn't have the horrific tragedy that we're dealing with at this point," Giuda said of the four hijacked jetliners. Pilots would first get training in firearms by the FBI and would use their weapons only to defend against an attempted breach of the cockpit, the resolution said. The resolution also calls for federal licensing of pilots to carry concealed weapons and for the government to indemnify air carriers and their employees against the legitimate use of a firearm. If those steps are not carried out, the resolution calls for a national suspension of air service, at such times and in such manner as is deemed appropriate by the leadership of the Air Line Pilots Association." "We're hearing members of Congress say they don't want a bunch of armed hooligans running around," said Giuda, a New Hampshire state representative. He said there was "no more professionalized, highly-scrutinized group of people in the world than airline pilots." The security of the flight deck cannot depend solely on armed sky marshals, he said. Sky marshals can be picked out of a crowd and, if overpowered, would provide a hijacker with a weapon, Giuda said. "It's time to throw the gauntlet to the mat. We are going to get politicized into unarmed cockpits and then we'll get shot with the guns the marshals used because they will be taken away from them," he added. Arming pilots introduces the element of "risk, fear and doubt" into the mind of a potential hijacker, he said.

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Pilots threaten strike if kept disarmed
by Optimizzin Al-gorithm 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=5752 News - October 5, 2001 Pilots threaten to stop service if kept unarmed By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI Union Leader Staff Commercial airline pilots will be asked to suspend air service if they cannot have trained, armed pilots in the cockpits, a New Hampshire pilot said. A resolution that will be circulated among the various councils of the 67,000-member Air Line Pilots Association this month asks federal regulations be changed to allow for the voluntary arming of flight crew members, Robert Giuda, a United Airlines captain of Warren said. Had we had armed pilots on Sept. 11, we wouldnt have the horrific tragedy that were dealing with at this point, Giuda said of the four hijacked jetliners. Pilots would first get training in firearms by the FBI and would use their weapons only to defend against an attempted breach of the cockpit, the resolution said. The resolution also calls for federal licensing of pilots to carry concealed weapons and for the government to indemnify air carriers and their employees against the legitimate use of a firearm. If those steps are not carried out, the resolution calls for a national suspension of air service, at such times and in such manner as is deemed appropriate by the leadership of the Air Line Pilots Association. Were hearing members of Congress say they dont want a bunch of armed hooligans running around, said Giuda, a New Hampshire state representative. He said there was no more professionalized, highly-scrutinized group of people in the world than airline pilots. The security of the flight deck cannot depend solely on armed sky marshals, he said. Sky marshals can be picked out of a crowd and, if overpowered, would provide a hijacker with a weapon, Giuda said. Its time to throw the gauntlet to the mat. We are going to get politicized into unarmed cockpits and then well get shot with the guns the marshals used because they will be taken away from them, he added. Arming pilots introduces the element of risk, fear and doubt into the mind of a potential hijacker, he said.

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by bestdailynews＠list.outcomemail.com 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

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BEING WATCHED: A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance
by Steve Schear 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

BEING WATCHED A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance By JEFFREY ROSEN October 7, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/magazine/07SURVEILLANCE.html <snip> I had gone to Britain to answer a question that seems far more pertinent today than it did early last month: why would a free and flourishing Western democracy wire itself up with so many closed-circuit television cameras that it resembles the set of ''The Real World'' or ''The Truman Show''? The answer, I discovered, was fear of terrorism. In 1993 and 1994, two terrorist bombs planted by the I.R.A. exploded in London's financial district, a historic and densely packed square mile known as the City of London. In response to widespread public anxiety about terrorism, the government decided to install a ''ring of steel'' -- a network of closed-circuit television cameras mounted on the eight official entry gates that control access to the City. Anxiety about terrorism didn't go away, and the cameras in Britain continued to multiply. In 1994, a 2-year-old boy named Jamie Bulger was kidnapped and murdered by two 10-year-old schoolboys, and surveillance cameras captured a grainy shot of the killers leading their victim out of a shopping center. Bulger's assailants couldn't, in fact, be identified on camera -- they were caught because they talked to their friends -- but the video footage, replayed over and over again on television, shook the country to its core. Riding a wave of enthusiasm for closed-circuit television, or CCTV, created by the attacks, John Major's Conservative government decided to devote more than three-quarters of its crime-prevention budget to encourage local authorities to install CCTV. The promise of cameras as a magic bullet against crime and terrorism inspired one of Major's most successful campaign slogans: ''If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.'' <snip> The ideal of America has from the beginning been an insistence that your opportunities shouldn't be limited by your background or your database; that no doors should be permanently closed to anyone who has the wrong smart card. If the 21st century proves to be a time when this ideal is abandoned -- a time of surveillance cameras and creepy biometric face scanning in Times Square -- then Osama bin Laden will have inflicted an even more terrible blow than we now imagine.

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by Sally Daugherty 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

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Re: ZKS Shutdown
by drt＠un.bewaff.net 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

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11 YO Suspended for Alleged WTC Smiling
by Eric Cordian 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

Better not express a dissenting point of view when the government school orders you to sit in your cubicle and write the state-mandated "Peace Poem." http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/DD965CD05B568F238625… ----- A Jefferson County fifth-grader served a three-day suspension this week for drawing the World Trade Center attack on notebook paper and grinning while showing it off. Paul Volz, 11, last week drew the skyscrapers side by side with smoke and fire pouring from the left tower. He said he taped the drawing to the outside of his study cubicle at the North Jefferson Intermediate School. In a discipline notice sent to Paul's parents, school Principal Jeff Boyer indicated the boy had made "disruptive physical conduct or speech" and "communication of a threatening nature." ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Re: WTC Collapse Alternative
by Anonymous User 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

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Enhance Employee Competency, Productivity and Morale
by Frontline Learning 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

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BBC: US launches 'anti-terror' satellite
by xganon 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

US launches 'anti-terror' satellite http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1582000/1582673.stmT… United States has launched a satellite which intelligence analystssay will probably be used to gather information in the global campaignagainst terrorism.The Titan IV rocket was launched from Vandenberg airforce base inCalifornia on behalf of the US National Reconnaissance Office, asecretive agency specialising in providing information for the CIA andthe National Security Agency.The rocket is believed to have been carrying a top secret KH-11 spysatellite - that could monitor Afghanistan ahead of an expected militarystrike.The US Air Force refused to comment on the payload, but the NRO buildsand operates America's spy satellites and specialises in gatheringpictures and electronic data, such as telephone conversations on theground.Pin-point accuracyExperts from Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine said thesatellite was likely to be equipped with a digital camera able to pickout objects as small as 10 cm (4 inches) across on the ground.Orbiting hundreds of miles above the earth the 15 tonne KH-11 is capableof tracking small groups of people walking on the ground as well asvehicle and weapons movements.It can monitor conversations and even spot campfires at night usinginfrared technology.Identifying the enemyAccording to Aviation Magazine such information could be used to monitorthe movements of Taleban groups and refugees to help allied forcesseparate potentially hostile groups from "non-combatants".The United States is believed to have spy satellites over Afghanistanalready as US forces continue to build up nearby ahead of expectedmilitary strikes.Before 1996 the NRO did not publicly disclose the launches of itssatellites.

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