United Rail Passenger Alliance

Vol. 2, No. 15 – July 10, 2005

1. We collectively grieve with our British cousins over the senseless deaths, maiming, and wounding of hundreds of citizens of London who were innocently going about their daily routines on London’s renowned transit system this week. The cowardly acts of barbarian terrorists will not be forgotten or forgiven. These terrorist thugs have grossly miscalculated that they can intimidate the country of Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair. England stood alone and brave and survived the Nazi onslaught at the beginning of World War II. These misguided terrorists have chosen the wrong targets; none of the civilized world will rest until these terrorists are either dead or utterly neutralized. None of us will risk the future of our children and grandchildren to the capriciousness of fundamental radicals that do not value human life.
2. United States Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta has been getting very bad information from his staff. The secretary, who will go down in history as one of our country’s most important officials for the work he has done readying our country’s transportation network to guard against terrorism, has been spewing incorrect information about Amtrak, especially the national network. Read more…