From: Steve Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 15:01:55 PDT
Hello Ed,
> For the people that don't believe that the textile based surplus is to be
>de-milled, the lead story on the cover of ANSOM, that is a trade magazine,
>is SO LONG, SURPLUS. In the article it says the same thing David Wright of
>GL said on this list , the DOD will stop the sale of 8400-series goods to
>the surplus market.
Thanks for finally providing some evidence that this is in fact the case.
Like I said, I didn't doubt it. But without *any* evidence I certainly
would be a fool to believe it. I might be many things, but I don't count
being a fool as one of them :-)
> So if you think about how easy they got this on to go through, what will be
>next?
The question is... will this new policy last? Many things that the
government does which are ill advised do not get reversed. However,
sometimes once the general public figures out that they are affected some
back peddling will happen.
There is a LOT of that going on right now as Bush rams through a lot of
highly restrictive policies under the guise of a losely defined,
perpetual state of war. In some cases his policies are in violation of
the Constitution or at least go against ever fiber of what this country
is about. I cut the guy a lot of slack after 9/11, but there is an
agenda behind the continued actions that every citizen of this world
(especially Americans) should be very critical of. Funny enough, the
people on this list who would fire off angry emails every time "Klinton"
farted, as if he is the Anti-Christ, aren't so much as making a peep
about what is going on these days. I guess so long as nobody comes for
their gun or Deuce they don't mind the right to an attorney, habious
corpus, Due Process, or other things being brushed aside along with their
pensions, stock investments, and jobs.
Oh, and to Jack Lee... sorry about the confusion I might have caused.
Working 20 and sleeping 4 the past couple of days has not made me the
most alert guy around :-)
Steve
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