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Subject: Pigs will be pigs...
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Date: 31 Jan 89 18:57:00 GMT
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Space Calendar, Jan 30 - Feb 5, 1989, pg 2

	MEDIA SPONSORED REMOTE SENSING,
	Washington, DC: Faces opposition from
	DoD. A satellite which could provide im-
	mediate photos of military activities to the
	media "poses a greater threat to national
	security" than current foreign-owned tech-
	nology, the AAAS was told recently.


Editorial comment:

The above is to be expected. The military does not foster a mentality
that is compatible with a truely free society. The more power that
mentality is given over society, the farther said society will be driven
from being a liberal, laissez-faire democracy.

It is high time the Europeans got together and put up such a satellite.
I would love to see a US firm do it and make a business out of it.  But
the DoD does not care about America being the forerunner in opening new
technology markets, so I would rather see this important contribution
to world peace and stability done by statists than to see it not done
at all.

Someone has to put a check to the power hungry SOB's in ALL of the
military establishment's of the world. The US is not unique in this
respect, because the mentality comes with the territority.

So what if some US soldiers get wasted because they are on TV? The same
will happen to the guys on the other side of whatever worthless
imaginary line they are battling over. Maybe it will make ALL of them
think twice about whether what they are doing is worth dying for. If
they stayed home and concentrated on defending US territorial waters
and borders they wouldn't be on TV in the first place. Because NOBODY
is going to attack us if we mind our own business. PERIOD.

I know there are lots of Europeans out there on Space Digest, and some
of you may be involved in your nation's space efforts, or even better,
involved in a real company. Use whatever influence you have to get a
high resolution (maybe 1M) satellite with real time imaging capability
and with a high slant range. 

Screw the warrior class. It's about time we outgrew their paleolithic
mindset. While we still have time.

					Free Minds, Free Markets
					and an intact planet to be a
					capitalist on,
						Dale Amon


PS: And while you are at it, why not push for kicking ALL of our troops
off of European soil and waters and airspace? The $50,000,000,000 or
so saved per year would wipe out the US national debt, stabilize the
dollar and make Europe less of a trip wire to WWIII.