You should have been a war leader, John! Your speech is reminiscent of Patton's or Churchill's 60 years ago!
We need a war leader to kick-start the US into metrication. It's one thing to start using a system that is obviously far superior to the existing one, and it's quite another for what's supposed to be the world's greatest nation to be dragging it's feet, and now having the distinction of being the LAST country in the world to switch to it. Regards Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:23820] Re: CNN article 2002-12-07 I wonder how many people would read far enough down the page to see this. Most Americans already are either anti-metric or maybe afraid of metric, and any article that has even a hint of negativity will re-enforce their hate or fear. Americans will look for any reason or justification not to metricate. And articles like this where the positive points are little blurbs here and there do not help our cause. What we really need are more articles like the one that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Americans need to be told that FFU is killing them and their children. It needs to be driven deep that FFU is costing American jobs. That in the future only the metric numerate will get the good paying jobs and the metric innumerate will get the low-pay, toilet scrubbing jobs. It has to be drummed into their heads day and night. Only a few Americans can see the forest between the trees. They know that as the world becomes more global, it will be a world measured in SI and those that don't know SI will pay a big price to be different. Yet, they insist on resistance. And they will continue to resist until they are defeated. The EU is the hope of our victory and our enemies defeat and destruction. EU resistance to the status quo or an equal partnership between SI and FFU is the only hope to destroy FFU. Let these 10 years be FFU's "Battle of the Bulge", but let 2010 be FFU's Waterloo. We can not be deceived by subtle attacks on FFU that appear in articles like these. We must fight the supporters of FFU until FFU is wiped out. And the sooner the better. John
