Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: extravagant highway systems
Message-ID: <3144@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 23 Dec 88 14:32:42 GMT
References: <204@imspw6.UUCP> <5141@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <1021@clsib21.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <5141@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout) writes:
> all other things being equal, our extravangant highway system would permit a
> mechanized invader to cover massive amounts of territory with little effort

So, we shouldn't have roads because it would help our enemies invade us, eh?

This sounds like a variant of the sort of "the automobile is a tool for the
bougeois lackeys of the imperialist warmongers" stuff I used to read in the 
Boston Globe and hear from Boston city planners.  I note your Newtonville,
MA address.  I assume you have "bought in" to make such a remarkable statement.
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