Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their own gooses
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
On Thursday 07 August 2003 20:52, Tim May wrote:
Any van with a moonroof could trivially be set up to allow a pop shot
Backblast. A suicide shooter could do it, but it would be non-trivial to pop out, shoot, survive it, and keep your van's paint good enough to avoid notice. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 07:15 PM, Steve Furlong wrote:
On Thursday 07 August 2003 20:52, Tim May wrote:
Any van with a moonroof could trivially be set up to allow a pop shot
Backblast. A suicide shooter could do it, but it would be non-trivial to pop out, shoot, survive it, and keep your van's paint good enough to avoid notice.
Whatever. A trivial concern, evidence shows. Hell, they blow themselves up just to kill a Jew or three. --Tim May
Steve Furlong <sfurlong@acmenet.net> wrote:
Backblast. A suicide shooter could do it, but it would be non-trivial to pop out, shoot, survive it, and keep your van's paint good enough to avoid notice.
This is why "soft launch" systems were created. http://web.jfet.org/video/JavelLiveFireVsT72.avi Javelin is also surface-to-air capable. See http://www.geocities.com/morteza69ca/canadarmy/javelin.html -- Riad Wahby rsw@jfet.org MIT VI-2 M.Eng
At 10:15 PM 08/07/2003 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
On Thursday 07 August 2003 20:52, Tim May wrote:
Any van with a moonroof could trivially be set up to allow a pop shot
Backblast. A suicide shooter could do it, but it would be non-trivial to pop out, shoot, survive it, and keep your van's paint good enough to avoid notice.
You just need an ugly enough van that a bit of extra paint damage on the roof doesn't show. It's much easier than trying to keep good paint from becoming bad looking. Or open and shoot out the back door.
No, no, no. This is all planned. After all, how can you have a war on terrorism in order to clamp down on freedoms, if there is no terror? How can you incite patriotism and support of the government? How else can you bring about the police state? And while you're at it, you can make most people far more maleable if it happens during an economically shaky time. And having a war that costs nearly a trillion dollars plus another billion every two weeks or so might just do the trick. Of course the above is all hypothetical, nothing like this could happen in real life. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Tim May wrote:
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.
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