On Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 12:54 AM, Reese wrote: > ****************************************************** > The following message was posted to [a list] > ...
> I got to meet Nancy three years ago when she was in Seattle for the > national committee meeting of the activist organization known as "the > Greens/Green Party USA," which should not be confused with the > ...much GreenSpeak elided... > Nancy was not banned from flying. She was simply not allowed to fly > that day. Nancy said she did not put up resistance to having her > purse searched (a standard procedure long before 9/11) or personal > search. She just went crazy at the metal-detecting wand. I know Nancy > well enough to know why she would freak out at the use of such a > radioactive instrument around her body. She is a long-time anti-nuke > activist. Earth to Greens: metal-detector wands are _not_ a "radioactive instrument_. A 7th-grade understanding of physics is all that is needed to know this. No wonder the Greens have such a backasswards view of so many things. Heinlein's quote below is especially appropriate. --Tim May "Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." --Robert A. Heinlein
