[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, June 11, 2001

Quote of the Day by concerned about politics

[Concerned]

I have flown into and out of Meacham and the Arabic accent is THICK! I have had to have them repeat and repeat and repeat what they are saying to understand them. They DON'T know how to speak ENGLISH well enough to be SAFE.

If foreigners---particularly Middle Easterners, in light of 9/11---cannot FLUENTLY speak English, they need to be DENIED the ability to fly airplanes of ANY kind in the U.S.!

They are an ACTUAL, IMMEDIATE DANGER to other pilots flying in the region, not to mention the potential as kamakaze (sp?) "9/11 want-to-be" pilots. Let them learn how to fly in their OWN country and quit allowing them to learn here!

[Concerned]

I have flown into and out of Meacham and the Arabic accent is THICK! I have had to have them repeat and repeat and repeat what they are saying to understand them. They DON'T know how to speak ENGLISH well enough to be SAFE.

If foreigners---particularly Middle Easterners, in light of 9/11---cannot FLUENTLY speak English, they need to be DENIED the ability to fly airplanes of ANY kind in the U.S.!

They are an ACTUAL, IMMEDIATE DANGER to other pilots flying in the region, not to mention the potential as kamakaze (sp?) "9/11 want-to-be" pilots. Let them learn how to fly in their OWN country and quit allowing them to learn here!

[GretchenEE]

Almost every time I click on the QotD link, it isn't written by the person whose name is listed in the link, even though the dates match. Whazzup?

[VOA]

bump...looking for more comments from DFW-area freepers before I e-mail this thread
to some DFW-area relatives and friends!

[VOA]

"There are probably more than a hundred times as many Middle Eastern students
in flight schools here as there are potential flying jobs back in their home
nations," the pilot said.

If this is actually true, makes you wonder if there are any statiticians/demographers/actuarians
working at the FBI/CIA checking to see if something they see in the field just is
too incredible to be a random occurence.

In an era of wonderful computer power and statistics software programs available to
pre-collegiate kids...was the FBI/CIA/NSA even doing an analysis like this?

[DoctorMichael]

Disturbing, disturbing, disturbing.

[VOA]

bump for exposure and comment

[Cvengr]

"The government's Pantex nuclear-bomb facility in Amarillo, Texas, and President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, are not long flights from Fort Worth. "

Of course, Mena, Arkansas is even closer and better ranged by a Cessna 172.