"Having sat on Pacific Coast Highway below the takeoff path of LAX jumbo jets, I can attest to the fact that they are literally just a few hundred feet above. Any van with a moonroof could trivially be set up to allow a pop shot at one of these 747s or 767s, leaving every couple of minutes.)" Most people in this neck of the woods continue to believe that that flight that went down over Long Island a few years ago was actually shot down...many witnesses saw a rocket go up and hit the plane. The government, of course, denies it. God forbid the airlines collapse. Meanwhile, that flight that went down over the Rockaways on 10/11/01 was obviously sabotaged...nobody wanted to question the paper-thin myth of both engines and the tail all falling off simultaneously..."that was a mean headwind!" The chickens have been coming home to roost for a while now. -TD
From: Tim May <timcmay@got.net> To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:52:44 -0700
Reports today that commercial aviation is in dire danger of being grounded as freedom fighters deploy even a small fraction of the (estimated) 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles to down commercial airliners.
(Having sat on Pacific Coast Highway below the takeoff path of LAX jumbo jets, I can attest to the fact that they are literally just a few hundred feet above. Any van with a moonroof could trivially be set up to allow a pop shot at one of these 747s or 767s, leaving every couple of minutes.)
The U.S. and U.S.S.R. were handing these SFMs to any freedom fighter group that would temporarily swear allegiance to the CIA or KGB.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
I stopped flying in 2000.
--Tim May "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams
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