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OT/Winter doldrums/politics
Derek Copeland wrote:
Well, I am a glider pilot, rather than a professional politician. Unfortunately, as we are finding out the hard way in Europe as the EC 'harmonises' it's flying regulations, politics are important to us. Politicians and civil servants always want to play it safe, so airspace is becoming more and more reserved for commercial and military aviation and we are lucky to get any remaining scraps. The idea of airmindedness and flying for pleasure never seems to figure in politicians minds, until there is a war and they need pilots! Also wars require them to raise extra revenue, i.e. taxes, so we have less disposable income to spend on flying, assuming that we are allowed to aviate at all. Then there is the risk that we will be send into battle and killed, or have to kill many innocent civilians on the other side. I would only be prepared to go along with this if our country was actually directly under attack, rather than some trumped up charge of WMDs in a remote land, when the real objective was to nick all their oil! No, say it ain't so! ;-) Oh, and by the way Paul. If Hitler's Germany was perceived to be such a threat to the World in 1938, why didn't the US get directly involved until 1942? It's called The Atlantic. Once all those sinking ships started poisoning our fish supplies, we got ****ed. Shawn |
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