As I understand it the dock workers work for the port management company. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:41 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Bush's First Veto? > > Nope. Wrong on two counts. Running the cranes and driving the trucks > will actually take place by the dockworkers, who I believe are union > at all six ports. Also, the port management, their records and > documentation, and their personel suggest which containers to > physically open, decide which workers handle which containers, decide > where containers and stored and when they are loaded onto trucks and > trains. If the port management in any way aren't cooperating fully, > then the TSA and their computerizes records searches are not going to > correctly weight safety criteria. > > The smuggling that currently takes place in those same shipyards (all > of which happen to be the tops in the nation in illegal drug and > people smuggling) show that it is already possible to move stuff in > with the cooperation of the port management and employees. The > difference is, for the most part, the same people that currently > support illegal smuggling would probably not be willing to smuggle in > wmd. > > On 2/23/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are talking about running the cranes, driving the trucks. Not picking > > which container to search and which ones not to. > >
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