- You're sitting in seat 22A of a Boeing 737 traveling
530 mph at 30,000 feet. The flight attendants complete their beverage
service and the in-flight movie begins. At that moment, six terrorists
leave their seats in unison....
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- God forbid this happens to you or your loved ones. But
if it does, would you want the flight crew to have firearms to stop the
terrorists or wait for an F-16 carrying six AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air
missiles to be ordered to shoot that commercial airliner out of the sky?
Forget about an air marshal being on board -- latest reports show that
only around 5% of the 28,000 daily commercial flights in the U.S. have
an air marshal.
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- Since 9/11, politicians and government bureaucrats say
they are doing everything they can to keep terrorists off airliners. But
what happens today if terrorists get on board a commercial flight? Chances
are extremely high there won't be an air marshal on board. Hope the
cockpit
door holds? At best the new cockpit door will provide only an obstacle
to terrorists because "Boeing has stated that constructing an
impenetrable
cockpit door is not possible." (Airline Pilots Security
Alliance)
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- You might know Congress has already passed legislation
authorizing armed pilots. Unfortunately for the flying public, the
Transportation
Safety Administration (TSA) has deliberately dragged its feet on
implementing
the program. On April 1, 2004, Congressman Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina)
stated, "Two years ago, Congress sent a clear message by a vote of
310-113 to arm America's pilots. Since that time, less than 1% of the
40,000 pilots that signed up to participate have been trained. That is
absolutely unacceptable...."
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- Congress already voted to arm commercial pilots to
provide
a last line of defense against onboard terrorists. But the Transportation
Safety Administration would rather use an F-16 armed with Sidewinder
missiles
to shoot down a hijacked airliner!
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- Congressmen Joe Wilson, Virgil Goode and Ron Paul want
commercial airline pilots to be armed as quickly as possible and want the
Transportation Safety Administration to stop dragging its feet. Therefore
tonight, they will submit an amendment to "H.R. 10 - The 9/11
Recommendations
Implementation Act" to the House Rules Committee.
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- Here's our immediate problem: The House Rules Committee
will only allow a small number of amendments to H.R. 10 and we want the
Wilson-Goode-Paul amendment to be one of them. We must get the Rules
Committee
to accept the Wilson-Goode-Paul amendment in order for the amendment to
be scheduled for a vote by the entire House. The committee will make its
decision within the 24 to 48 hours so we have little time.
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- Please call, fax or email House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
to urge him to have the House Rules Committee accept the Wilson-Goode-Paul
amendment. We must get the Rules Committee to accept the amendment in
order for it to be voted on by the full House. The House will debate and
vote on approved amendments as well as the entire H.R. 10 by this Friday
or Saturday.
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- Please contact Majority Leader Delay today. Urge him
to support the Wilson-Goode-Paul amendment to H.R. 10 and see that the
Rules Committee accepts it, because you support arming commercial pilots
instead of waiting for an F-16.
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- Majority Leader Tom DeLay
- Tel: 202-225-4000
- Fax: 202-225-5117
- E-mail form:
- http://www.majorityleader.gov/CONTACT.ASP?a=form
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- Kent Snyder
- The Liberty Committee
- http://www.thelibertycommittee.org
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