The Department of Homeland Security has once again enacted a masterpiece in the theater of the absurd. I quote:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/2009/Q1/mail562.html
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The last time Charlie Dent rode a canal boat at Hugh Moore Park, he didn’t once think anti-terror ID for the mule drivers wearing 19th century garb would make him safer. “Absolutely not,” the Lehigh Valley’s U.S. Congressman said Thursday, a day after he argued on Capitol Hill that mule drivers at Hugh Moore Historical Park shouldn’t be subjected to a new anti-terror rule. “We’re supposed to be operating on a risk basis as far as homeland security,” Dent said. “I don’t think mule drivers in colonial garb rise to the level.”
http://blog.lehighvalleylive.com/easton ... hmoore.JPG
You see, Jerry, the old Lehigh Canal is considered a navigable waterway, so the mule drivers who work the tourist barge must be licensed by the US Coast Guard. And a federal anti-terror law requires transportation workers to submit to criminal background checks.
As a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent put it: "(The mules) go 2 miles per hour. There would be plenty of time to evacuate if you saw them coming.")
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LOL :lol:
“You ought to be glad you don’t get all the government you pay for.”
Will Rogers
If only...
Once again, the Law of Unintended Consequences runs roughshod over common sense.
I feel so much safer now!!
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/2009/Q1/mail562.html
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The last time Charlie Dent rode a canal boat at Hugh Moore Park, he didn’t once think anti-terror ID for the mule drivers wearing 19th century garb would make him safer. “Absolutely not,” the Lehigh Valley’s U.S. Congressman said Thursday, a day after he argued on Capitol Hill that mule drivers at Hugh Moore Historical Park shouldn’t be subjected to a new anti-terror rule. “We’re supposed to be operating on a risk basis as far as homeland security,” Dent said. “I don’t think mule drivers in colonial garb rise to the level.”
http://blog.lehighvalleylive.com/easton ... hmoore.JPG
You see, Jerry, the old Lehigh Canal is considered a navigable waterway, so the mule drivers who work the tourist barge must be licensed by the US Coast Guard. And a federal anti-terror law requires transportation workers to submit to criminal background checks.
As a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent put it: "(The mules) go 2 miles per hour. There would be plenty of time to evacuate if you saw them coming.")
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LOL :lol:
“You ought to be glad you don’t get all the government you pay for.”
Will Rogers
If only...
Once again, the Law of Unintended Consequences runs roughshod over common sense.
I feel so much safer now!!