Well, there are times when the gov't hides behind "not in the public
interest" not for the benefit of the public, but their own benefit. They
don't want you to know they had all the info necessary to make a sound
decision to delay the mission. They want you to think it was out of their
hands, that the unusually cold weather was the bad guy. Most of us know
enough not to believe that, some of us don't.
Of course, the victims deserve better, they deserve not to have those to
blame for their deaths unpunished, or, at the least, unrecognized. We do no
one any good, especially the brave citizens who go on the Shuttle still
today, if we ignore the true facts. By accepting a sham of an investigation
and explanation we do more harm to their memories and cheapen their deaths
even more. I'm sorry, when they chose to go on their space journey they
opened themselves to pubicity and lost some privacy Their lives became
public, as should their deaths, unfortunately. To accept a lie as to how and
why they died does more harm than any request from a news agency. That's why
causes and blame of airline and train and bus crashes are public information,
so those who died don't die in vain, and the rest of us will be safer in our
journeys in the future. It's the same principle here, just injected with
hysteria, and if you believe they should be "left alone" then you are falling
right into the hands of the liars and the guilty. They NEED you to believe it
should be left alone in order to protect their own hides.
George S.
jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<< The Challenger crew deserved better, and,
thankfully, this time they got it. I just wish that more people would see
how self-serving the media is when pushing "the people's right to know".
That's BULLSHIT! There are some things the people have no right to know.
Those things include personal details of injuries and deaths.
>>
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