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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cody andre who wrote (66963)	6/22/2000 7:29:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 67261

Last month President Clinton made a decision about the global positioning satellite system that leaves Americans more vulnerable to terrorist attack. Now that Clinton has opened the high-fidelity channel to civilian use, your missile will be able to reliably hit a tennis court. Football field, tennis court?what?s the difference? If you?re talking about nuclear-tipped missiles launched by those mysterious ?rogue states,? none at all. But what if you?re talking about non-nuclear missiles launched by terrorists? Then the difference is between hitting a suburban block and hitting a suburban home. Thanks to Clinton?s decision, terrorists can use GPS, combined with conventional explosives or chemical weapons, to strike particular people?Cabinet members, industrialists, entertainers who champion the wrong political cause, and so on. Remote-control assassination is now feasible. And these terrorists won?t have to be very high-tech, because cruise-missile technology isn?t necessary. Already, hobbyists have used a GPS device to guide a commercially available, model-type airplane?weighing 29 pounds, with a 9-foot wingspan?across the Atlantic Ocean.