Re: Basso: 'I have had no contact from any judge, investigator, the UCI'
- From: "Tom Kunich" <tkunich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 03:35:20 GMT
"Bill C" <tritonrider@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That's the rational that created Guantanamo and the US internment camps
65 years ago.
When motorcycle helmet laws came up I was working in a motorcycle shop and
was the safety director for the American Federation of Motorcyclists. I knew
something about helmets and had spoken with Dr. Shively, essentially the
inventor of the modern helmet and the director of the Snell Memorial
Foundation at the time.
We wrote a petition against mandatory helmet laws and gathered signatures
from some 8,000 motorcyclists and took it to a meeting of the Transportation
Committee in Sacramento. Totally disconnected from us several thousands
other motorcyclists from all over the state converged on this meeting all
with the same idea in mind. In all we various groups presented petitions
with some 20,000+ signatures on them against mandatory helmet laws.
They had to reschedule the meeting and held it in the largest committee
meeting room they had in Sacramento and still there was standing room only.
Of this group there were 2 - TWO - people that testified in favor of
mandatory helmet laws - one was a lady whose son had ridden into a building
at high speed on his motorcycle and she somehow believed that if he were
wearing a helmet he would be alive and well. The other was a representative
for the California Highway Patrol. Several of use raised our hands to
question this officer, they chose someone else and he asked exactly the same
question I was going to ask - If the CHP was for safety helmets why were all
of their motorcycle officers equiped with CORK helmets that couldn't pass
the Snell standard? The officer changed the subject without answering and
the committee chair dismissed him in a hurry.
Dr. Shively also was called to the stand and suggested that we should have a
mandatory helmet law. On questioning HE ADMITTED that it would make no
statistically relevent contribution to the fatality rolls.
We had a half dozen scientists and motorcycle company safety experts come to
the stand and explain how motorcycle helmets don't change the fatality or
serious injury index by any measureable amount. That helmets simply aren't
enough of a change to make them worthwhile.
The proposition was tabled and the meeting let out. Thousands of
motorcyclists in suits and ties, industry leaders, motorcycle shop owners,
editors of magazines and about a dozen greasy looking "outlaw" types (who in
reality were as outlaw as the Fonze) were walking out.
A TV crew and a reporter were shoving and pushing all of these neatly
dressed people out of the way to get to these couple of greasers. They
"interview" the stupidest looking one of that group and that night it was
all over TV with the story that "A group of Hell's Angels invaded a meeting
of the Transportation Committee today to demand that helmets not be
considered!" Essentially that same story was on all of the channels and on
the front page of every major newspaper in California.
The Transportation Committee held a secret meeting a couple of months later
and recommended a mandatory helmet law which passed almost unopposed.
Almost overnight the motorcycle business was destroyed. When was the last
time you saw a Honda 90 or a Yamaha 80? When was the last time you met the
nicest people on a Honda? 80% of the motorcycle shops in the state went out
of business.
The PERCENTAGE OF DEAD MOTORCYCLISTS to riders DIDN'T CHANGE.
Everyone in this state was manipulated by a lying media intent on running
the country the way they saw fit.
Now you're being led around by the nose yourself and you don't even know it.
I suspect you know absolutely nothing about Guantanamo and even less about
the Japanese internment camps.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260514/sr=8-2/qid=1151809420/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-5934667-8149617?ie=UTF8
What is amazing is that Franklin Roosevelt was the archetypal Liberal and
yet he is presented as being evil beyond evil by people who haven't a single
idea what he did and why.
It isn't enough that you feel disgust for the rush to judgement with no
information LET ALONE PROOF of anything - you have to do exactly the same
thing yourself.
Tell us Bill - how many tens of thousands of people in the State Department,
in the CIA or the NSA worked on gathering information for decades. How many
tens of thousands of reports, thousands of sumations and how many hundreds
of experts worked on this subject for countless administrations?
But BILL C. has watched Frontline and knows ALL there is to know about it.
.
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