| How safe are our West Coast Ports? Many say | | | | a short range missile is launched from a cargo ship as |
| security is a lot tighter after 9-11 and that it is safe | | | | it enters local ocean areas? Port Safety is an issue; |
| and under control? Yet how can we be sure what is | | | | Well we sold the port next to Long Beach to the |
| in those containers? What if a container is set off in | | | | Koreans and now we are selling land to the Chinese |
| the port itself before inspection? If it is on the West | | | | in Portland, I question that. see these are free trade |
| Coast the on-shore breeze will carry the radiated | | | | areas and have much different rules. Until we are |
| particulate matter into the city. Let us look at Long | | | | sure of who is our friend we should at least have |
| Beech for instance, there are 460 square miles of | | | | reciprocal type allowances for such purchases. They |
| concrete as you go inland and civilization abounds in | | | | want a port in our country, we need on in theirs, |
| every direction. Sixteen point five million people are | | | | that we own. |
| there and at risk. Another terrible scenario is; what if | | | | |