Open letter to President Bush Re: I was a blind air traffic controller
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Open letter to President Bush Re: I was a blind air traffic controller
My name is James Bergquist, former FAA air traffic controller and head of our union, NATCA, in SAN. Please read my open letter to President Bush which I posted on the VJ592 memorial site at...
http://www.flight592.com/Flight592Di...0/00000373.htm
I am asking that you send the letter to him again at
[email protected]
Maybe we can clean up the system
James Bergquist
air safety activist
[email protected]
http://www.flight592.com/Flight592Di...0/00000373.htm
I am asking that you send the letter to him again at
[email protected]
Maybe we can clean up the system
James Bergquist
air safety activist
[email protected]
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Same inane ramblings to be found on Rumours & News forum
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=94431
The guy must still be on drugs!
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=94431
The guy must still be on drugs!
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This is the proper link
flight592.com/Flight592Discussion-Current/_disc10/00000373.htm
You'll have to cut and paste it into the address window (adding the www. at the front).
Mr Bergquist: Stop using drugs, and get help.
edited because I realised that the site automatically makes a hyperlink, but shortens it to make it incorrect...doh!!
flight592.com/Flight592Discussion-Current/_disc10/00000373.htm
You'll have to cut and paste it into the address window (adding the www. at the front).
Mr Bergquist: Stop using drugs, and get help.
edited because I realised that the site automatically makes a hyperlink, but shortens it to make it incorrect...doh!!
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No politician (or newspaper editor for that matter) has time to read such a rambling letter. You need to focus on one issue and be very clear about what you want the person you are writing to to do for you.
I'm not sure you even ask him to investigate? Perhaps it's in there somewhere but (like a politician) I didn't have time or inclination to read it all, just the first and last few paragraphs.
In the UK I found it best to write to my MP asking them to pose a specific question to the department concerned. They did so and I had my answer back via my MP in about two weeks.
The point being that _all_ my MP had to do was pass on my question. He didn't have to wade through pages of stuff he had no interest in and that wasn't going to get him any votes.
I'm not sure you even ask him to investigate? Perhaps it's in there somewhere but (like a politician) I didn't have time or inclination to read it all, just the first and last few paragraphs.
In the UK I found it best to write to my MP asking them to pose a specific question to the department concerned. They did so and I had my answer back via my MP in about two weeks.
The point being that _all_ my MP had to do was pass on my question. He didn't have to wade through pages of stuff he had no interest in and that wasn't going to get him any votes.
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Look at the address of the author:
James A. Bergquist Air Safety Activist [email protected]
Chicken Little?
PT
James A. Bergquist Air Safety Activist [email protected]
Chicken Little?
PT
I want a time machine so I can go back and fly a P47 in WWII with his old man.
Imagine sipping from a flask of brandy while you attack Nazi ammo trains in eastern France.
He is nuts.
Imagine sipping from a flask of brandy while you attack Nazi ammo trains in eastern France.
He is nuts.
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Whatever other deficiancies George Bush may have, he recognises a nutter when he sees one, and has had the common sense not to encourgae Chicken Little to use pens, pencils or other sharp objects..........
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James,
Hate to say it, but I'm inclined to agree with many of the views here. Over the last few years I've seen you write a fair number of epic 'open' letters to White House dignitaries and I've yet to see any results from your efforts.
The tragedy is, of course, that you might be right. And one day, after a ghastly accident, we might read through one of your letter-cum-novels and know that you saw it coming and were trying to warn us.
But your approach to the matter is all wrong and it just trashes your credibility as surely as if you'd postmarked your letter at the local asylum.
You also might want to rethink the "chicken little" email address. Chicken Little believed that the sky was collapsing after an acorn fell on his head, and went around spreading his over-reaction and paranoia to the rest of the farm.
Not the best way to be taken seriously, if you ask me.
Hate to say it, but I'm inclined to agree with many of the views here. Over the last few years I've seen you write a fair number of epic 'open' letters to White House dignitaries and I've yet to see any results from your efforts.
The tragedy is, of course, that you might be right. And one day, after a ghastly accident, we might read through one of your letter-cum-novels and know that you saw it coming and were trying to warn us.
But your approach to the matter is all wrong and it just trashes your credibility as surely as if you'd postmarked your letter at the local asylum.
You also might want to rethink the "chicken little" email address. Chicken Little believed that the sky was collapsing after an acorn fell on his head, and went around spreading his over-reaction and paranoia to the rest of the farm.
Not the best way to be taken seriously, if you ask me.
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Chicken Little,
No doubt some of your points are very valid, but OH MY GOD
PRESENTATION!!
Pick a theme and stick to it. Ranting and digression will get you absolutely nowhere
No doubt some of your points are very valid, but OH MY GOD
PRESENTATION!!Pick a theme and stick to it. Ranting and digression will get you absolutely nowhere