not a good idea at all.
stay safe
Joe
This is for real, I looked this up realier and its right there.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/wmur/20050224/lo_wtae/2600436
“Homeland Security, Protecting America from Terrorists, by Killing us all.”
I still think that they are retarded morons for proposing this idea. Like I said earlier,this country is too paranoid.
I did not take time to verify WTAE’s sources but assumed that it would be reliable as it is the Pittsburgh ABC affiliate. An email to the author, Paul Van Osdol, in care of Team 4 Investigates should provide additional information. WTAE’s website is ThePittsburghChannel.com
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Here are a few links for evaluating this topic:
http://www.ble.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=11646
Here is what the BMWE thinks about the removal of placards. I only quoted a portion of it, which I think contains the meat, as follows:
Freddie N. Simpson
Perry K. Geller, Sr.
President
Secretary-Treasurer
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
20300 Civic Center Drive, Suite 320
Southfield, MI. 48076
September 29, 2004
Docket Management System
U.S. Department of Transportation
400 Seventh Street, SW
Nassif Building, Room PL-401
Washington, D.C . 20590
Re: Docket No. RSPA-2004-18730
Dear Sir or Madam:
The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes (BMWE), a rail labor
organization representing 50,000 railroad workers who build, maintain, inspect,
and repair railroad track and related structures throughout North America, is
pleased to provide these comments to the above referenced docket. BMWE has chosen to comment only on certain limited aspects of the “Notice and Request for Comments,” however, such should not be construed as BMWE acquiescence to any other proposals or alternatives outlined in the Notice and Request for Comments…
…Placarding
BMWE does not support the removal of placards and markings as a security
measure. Simply removing placards and markings from TIH tank cars will in
itself be an identifier for those with malicious intent. These shipments will
simply be identified by the omission of placards and markings. In addition, it
will not be difficult for a person with malicious intent to figure out that
pressurized, non-placarded tank cars parked at a water treatment facility are
likely to contain chlorine. Therefore, BMWE does not view the removal of
placards as a viable security measure. Rather, we view the proposal for
removing placards and markings as a detriment to safety. As stated in the
Federal Register, August 16, 2004:
Pl
Mike,
Its not fishy, its old news…Follow-up by Trains on this issue would be timely.
Jim - Lawton, NV MP 236
Regargless of who what where the source is the fact that the Dept of Homeland Insecurity whats to remove placards is the stupidist idea I have ever heard come out of Washington. Little known fact that polystryene is also a placarded matrial it is on a 9 ORM placard. Those placards are there for public saftey if they succed in getting them removed the next time there is a wreck involing hazmat and people die. The lawyers should be allowed to sue the federal goverment and Geo W for allowing such a stupid idea pass.[soapbox][2c]
Does all this Homeland Security (real cute phrase) stuff sound vaguely like an incident in the 1940’s when a lone Japanese submarine fired a couple of misplaced shells somewhere in a potato field in California and the entire nation went on alert thinking Japan was about to invade and completely overwhelm the United States, just think about it, was the fact , along with any other factual information that they were 8000miles away not brought to into play?
The new motto at Homeland Security: “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!”
Maybe someone should park an unplacarded tank car on the White House lawn. That would get their attention. DUH!!![swg]
Stencil it with “Liquified Brain Power-intelligence hazard”