Re: WIPP shipment through Albq. NM

["Gerry Blackwood" <gpblackwood@justice.com>]

After 25 years in Government service you think you walk

away with all your neurons firing? Believe me I have

seen what happens when the USG puts its NS stamp on

things ....... Poof no more issue, until its go boom.

Gerry



On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:55:22 -0800 (PST), John Jacobus

wrote:



> 

> Boy, and I thought I was cynical.

> 

> --- Gerry Blackwood <gpblackwood@justice.com> wrote:

> > "Does "democracy" mean we have to make public policy

> > decisions based on palpable falsehoods about

> > radioactivity?"

> > 

> > Public policy is based on public perceptions and who

> > can scream louder with the bigger wallet. Not on any

> > sound basis in fact or majority rule. I personally

> > believe that the WIPP issues are going no where, and

> > I

> > am really not up to speed on all the issues. But I

> > believe that the government is boxed in and the

> > options

> > are very few and far between at this point. So the

> > anti-crowd can crow all it wants. If the USG stamps

> > it

> > a national security issue we can all crow all we

> > want

> > then. Fighting the anti-crowd head on is in my

> > humble

> > opinion a waste of time and can cause high blood

> > pressure. You take these guys on using back door

> > politics, a check book and a real good lobbyists

> > with

> > sound facts. It does more damage and the risks of

> > mind

> > meltdown are lessened.  

> > 

> > Just my 2 cents.

> > 

> > Gerry Blackwood

> > 

> > 

> > 

> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:19:26 -0800 (PST), John

> > Jacobus

> > wrote:

> > 

> > > 

> > > So, what do you propose?  Not having public

> > meetings? 

> > > The requirement that attendants have a high school

> > > education?  The requirement that certain documents

> > be

> > > read prior to attending the meetings?

> > > 

> > > I do not think many of the readers on this list

> > are

> > > anti-nuclear, and abhore the bias they possess. 

> > > However, what is the alternative?

> > > 

> . . .

> 

> =====

> +++++++++++++++++++

> "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility

> against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

> Thomas Jefferson

> 

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com

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