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Sir;... What an entirely pleasant article... Call me strange, but I love the truth... I saw a commuter airplane crash at Metro Airport, in Detroit, sort of...The pilot was a hotdog, and he managed to flip the plane completely over, and run it into the concource....There I saw people die horrible deaths in flames, and there I saw the bravest man in the world, an airport employee standing at the edge of that burning wreckage trying to put out that conflagration with a fire extinguisher... I saw stewardesses standing by, faces bathed in tears at their friend's deaths inside that fire...Those people who escaped in the first moments were the only ones to escape at all... So; your example is perfectly appropriate... But think of the buildings we occupy...It is difficult enough for union people making it their life's work to demand quality construction, and to have the job security to be able to make a stand... Too many buildings are constructed by college kids on break, or rummys, or rats who run from one end of their existence to the other... All contruction workers should be like the elevator men around here, and be licenced... Sure; the union helps, but a licence on the line would make people give that little extra bit of care, and establish that the worker holding it has a minimum level of ability....Every time I hear of a building falling down on people, two thoughts enter my mind: engineering and execution....Government should regulate both... The object of government is for people to be free... When we set the object, apart from the constitution, that enterprise should be free we have allowed an end run around government... We might ask why so many organization are struggling for rights; why we have unions, associations, organizations, and support groups, -all with pacs, and all with lobbyists... Why would any of these groups be necessary if the government was living up to its clearly stated goals in the preamble of the constitution??? Should the Union not be our union??? In fact; to see capital free of all restraints, the people's freedom must be constantly under attack... We have gone to war over the threat of chemical weapons when our own chemical companies use us as so many guinnea pigs....We need government, but we do not need this government... It does not matter who the enemy is, or whether that enemy is domestic or foreign....If the government will not govern those who would feed on the body politic, it is the enemy too...We suffer too much infringement of personal rights...The people will not know freedom until it is made a priority of government...Government should not cut business loose; but harness it to the nation...Just as with government, the presumption of rights is misplaced...It is individuals who should have rights, and businesses, and institutions that must always be in defense of rights... They should only be able to profit so long as they can prove they are not acting as criminals, which is to say, against the national interest...And just as with government, they should not be able to hide behind our rights...If they are doing good, let them do good with open books.. Thanks...Sweeney