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"John T" wrote:

Terry Briggs wrote:

Excuse me for being pessimistic, but I think I saw a note on another
thread here that there are about 600,000 pilots in the USA.

Forgive my math, but isn't that less than 1% of the population?

600k / 290M = ~0.2%

If that is the case, and politicians are great at figuring out who
matters, why should anyone in Washington listen to us?

They may not, but that's not a reason to keep quiet.

Actually, politicians work on the assumption that most people are lazy,
and that one person speaking up represents the views of 100 or so others
who feel the same way but were just to complacent or busy to make their
views known. If even half of the 600,000 pilots in the country were to
weigh in against the NPRM it would be major news, and the politicians
would notice.

For myself, I am on the West coast and so not directly affected by the
ADIZ. But I am offended by it. The way this country is going we're
going to have to change the last line of the national anthem to read
"the land of the protected and the home of the fearful." Personally,
I'd rather be free than safe.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Ron Garret