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Dear Tom Taylor:
Well said, particularly about finding alternatives to
oil. Only 10% replacement would get petroleum back into perspective.
Unfortunately, our oil companies would feel threatened as well, so we need to
operate in spite of them.
Gasification of biomass provides the only viable replacement
for the benefits we now get from petroleum. I am planning a 21st century
"woodgas car" the equal of any current vehicle on the road. I'd appreciate
whatever help I can get.
> Whoever Susan is and the
parties who she wrote to, there are many opinions > which have been
written and many emotions which are flowing at this point > which will of
course change over time, If the US is totally paralyzed by this > event,
the terrorists will have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Do we >
want to give them this additional victory? Our best revenge is to strenghten
> our capital and economic power and live a better life. >
> If this is a religious war how do you win one? Name a victorious
religious > war in anywhere in history where any of the participants were
not totally > extinguished, i.e, genocidally removed. Most of the ancient
religious wars > are still going on, this is one of them, the Koran being
the instrument of > declaration of war. The economic wars can be won, but
not religious one. All > wars have religious components in order for the
leaders to motivate the pawns > of the population. > > In
order to win a religious war, use religion, find out the weaknesses of the
> religion and use it to counter the thought patterns. That is the most
> effective and least costly in human toll. It is also smarter. However,
in > practical aspects, infiltrating the religious groups with
missionaries is > difficult. As a side comment, I would like to see some
religious groups used > as missionaries, (chuckle). You cannot win a
religious argument, as it always > is based upon faith and faith has no
particular rational basis. These > statements seem contradictory, but
somewhere there may be a middle ground > which can be used. >
> If you wish to bomb whoever it is out of existence, whether it is Osama
Bin > Laden, Khadafi, or whoever, maybe all of them, you have to also
take into > consideration that these all have one similar religion,
Islam, and that you > take the risk of alienating or creating martyrs
which is like Medussa, you > cut off one head and two regrow. Islam is
one of the largest religions of the > world. If we were ever to go to war
with the entire group, it would be a real > nightmare. > >
Perhaps there is one exception to this rule. Khadafi was nearly bombed out of
> existence and he lost relations in the attack upon his empire.
Remember, > these countries are run by tyrants who have absolute power
and there are no > civil rights. Their survival and hatred of the US
arises from the fear of > their loss of power. The religious fervor is
merely a tool, but a powerful > tool of their control over the
population. Khadafi was bombed after it was > determined that he played a
major role in the Lockerbie 747 bombing. He > discontinued his direct
involvement in terrorism after this attack, or at > least we are told.
> > The Crusades were started when a king of a city under siege, I
believe it was > ancient Constantinople, and the King asked for help to
prevent the heathens > from winning. The pope issued an absolution to
anyone who lost their lives in > the conflict. Almost all of Europe sold
their goods, took to horseback and > wanted to enter heaven. A Million or
more were lost in these 14 crusades, the > last one was 300,000 children
lead by a 16 year old who were launched with > "God on their side", and
were never heard from again. > > Several other thoughts must be
brought to light. The gov't said that the > White House and Air Force 1
were targets, how did they know this and what > else did they know? A
personal contact was aware of three who he helped > sponsor to come to
the US from UAE and when he found out what they were > really here for,
he began calling the FBI months ago and they ignored his > warnings,
until tuesday afternoon. He spent until 3 am wednedsay am with the > FBI
and they have not been arrested as of yet. The 3 were in Florida and two
> went to pilots school, the other one is apparently a finance manager
for one > of the major terrorists groups. > > Terrorism is
a very valid weapon when you cannot afford cruise missles, > aircraft
carriers and so on. The US has policies and so on which cannot be >
argued with unless you are willing to go to these lengths. That is why they
> are used. > > The recommended actions to be taken in my
mind are a combination of the above > comments. I am sure that the
government will do part of all of these and we > may never know what they
really do. Many terrorist activities have probably > been interdicted and
we will never know about them which is unfortunate. > > There are
a lot more comments and recommendations which I have, but my > fingers
are tired of typing and there is work to do to remove our dependence > of
the political shackles of the dependency upon Mideast "heathen" controlled
> oil as I operate an alternative waste to energy company which converts
waste > to petroleum replacements such as diesel and gasoline and are now
making > ethanol from garbage at a fraction of the cost from conventional
processes. > If the United States were to say that in 5 years, we would
no longer buy oil > from the Mideast, this shit would disappear in a
heartbeat. We would scare > the hell out of the groups responsible, and
we have the technology to replace > all of the oil we import with wastes
and coal produced synthetic fuels which > may initally be higher in cost,
but competitive forces would reduce these > costs over time as we have
seen in all deregulated industries. > > It is not a technical
question or economic question as to if the US is > willing to take these
steps of independence, but purely a political one. Does > the US really
have the guts to do this? Perhaps your input to the political > realm
would help. > > Sincerely, > Leland T. Taylor >
President > Thermogenics Inc. > 7100-2nd St. NW,
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107 > phone 505-761-1454 fax
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