From: Horrocks, Aaron (ACHb@pge.com)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 11:43:29 PDT
Maybe the classified safety issue with the HMMWVs is not that the vehicle is unsafe to it's passengers, but unsafe to everything else on the road!
No airbags, no crumple zones, no soft plastic bumpers, and a turret to mount an M2, M60, or TOW.
Aaron Horrocks
1952 M38A1
-----Original Message-----
From: jimweb@endgame.demon.co.uk [mailto:jimweb@endgame.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:28 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] [MVlist] Re: GL Is a Joke
> Did I miss the constitutional change from democracy to dictatorship?
You overlook one small thing - America isn't a democracy its a republic.
In case you are confused the best definitions of the words are here -
please read before launching into me...
http://www.worldnewsstand.net/freedom/democracy.htm
http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Politics/Structure1.htm
One thing that has struck me about this Hummer/GL debate is that if
these vehicles are unsafe for the road [reason for not reselling them to
the public] why are they being issued to the US Army? Does the US Army
not operate some sort of health & safety standard?
It strikes me that you should not be complaining to your congressman but
to the Ralph Nader types - a ruthless investigation by them should see
either a rapid retraction of the 'safety' issue or the release of
thousands of hummers on the grounds that they are unsafe for use by the
US Army.
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