Deja vu

From: Megan <mbg_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Aug 28 13:16:36 1998

 
> Since we are off topic, read the Bill of Rights and the Constitution
> sometime if you want an idea of just how many of your rights (re:
> freedom) have been usurped in your 'best interest' by our omnipresent
> Federal Government. This spy satellite pales in comparison to the
> invasion of personal liberty that has been either legislated by
> Congress or in the case of our Constitutional Rights bent in
> interpretation by the Supreme Court under the guise of a 'living
> breathing Constitution.' Bullshit. The Constitution doesn't need
> interpretation, it is written very clearly and has been raped.

I may be naive, but I understand that the satellite was owned by
a connecticut company who was have it launched to replace the one
which went bad earlier this year, knocking out millions of pagers,
etc.
 
> several years. Its the payload of the first that exploded that's very
> curious to me: a high-tech spy satellite capable of listening on on
> thousands of phone calls and other communications, costing how many
> billions? You'd think they would be REALLY, REALLY careful with a toy
> like that.

So would I... and I would have suspect that such a satellite would have
been launched from vandenburg. This is part of the reason I do believe
it was a communicates satellite.

BTW - if not from vandenburg, then aboard a shuttle...
 
                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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