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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Lost your home? Car? Everything? Thank a bicyclist and the
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:11:33 -0500
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On 1/21/2025 11:51 AM, Shadow wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:20:27 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:01:01 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:48:33 +0100, Rolf Mantel
>>> <news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> San Francisco or Oakland to LA is only an hour on commercial
>>>>> aircraft. The same to Las Vegas and only a half hour more to Arizona
>>>>> and only a half hour more than that to Denver. Trains simply do not
>>>>> work with the distances between major cities in the US. Too bad, I
>>>>> do like railroads.
>>>>
>>>> On the contrary, exactly those are the distances that work on high-speed
>>>> trains.  "One hour on commercial aricraft" means a total travelling time
>>>> of approx. three hours "city-center to city-center"; a "2:40 non-stop
>>>> travel time" by train as planned on completion of phase 1 would kill the
>>>> air market completely.
>>>
>>> 	I agree. You waste over an hour going to the airport and
>>> passing through the secret state police.
>>
>> Don't forget the "9/11"  catastrophe here in the U.S.The bad guys were
>> cleared ,by security, to be  passengers on the airplanes.
> 
> 	And some "survived" the crash, and were arrested in Europe a
> while later.

I don't recall any of the 9/11 hijackers surviving. Conspirators, 
yes...actual hijackers, no.

> 	PS I don't think "Homeland Security" even existed before
> Bush's coup. Were people searched  when boarding planes before that? I
> never was. Only after I landed, by customs. Even that was unusual.

I think carry on bags were x-rayed, Don't remember much besides that.

> 	[]'s
>>
>>> And when you reach your
>>> destination, it's usually at least 30 mins to the center of town. Two
>>> wasted hours.
>>> 	I presume train passengers would not be subject to "homeland
>>> insecurity" groping. Unless one of the CEO's from the "air market"
>>> paid someone to plant a bomb. The usual "take me to Cuba" excuse would
>>> not work.
>>> 	[]'s


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