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["bmcgovern" <bmcgovern@xxxxxxx>]

Sam:
        I don't think a collapse of the CBBT would "bottle up the entire 
Atlantic Fleet," since the tunnels are below the two 2000-foot wide 
channels--and those channels have a minimum of 40 feet of water.
   There are much easier targets--I'm afraid to say--everywhere.
Bill .

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Collins" <samailc@xxxxxxx>
To: "Virginia Birding" <VA-BIRD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:04 PM
Subject: [va-bird] Fw: More birding terrorists


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sam Collins" <samailc@xxxxxxx>
> To: <gene@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [va-bird] More birding terrorists
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>> Perhaps it is time, however, to put aside our special interest for the
>> sake of security. It is easy to criticize those in authority and 
>> difficult
>> to imagine their difficult task. We all would be the first to criticize
>> them if the CBBT or other military target (yes military target - a
>> collapse of the CBBT would bottle up the entire Atlantic Fleet in port)
>> were to be bombed. They are responsible for our safety and I welcome them
>> checking out everyone who is looking at bridges and tunnels with
>> binoculars and cameras. Please wake up and learn to live in a more
>> dangerous world since 9/11. Or perhaps you haven't read of the recent
>> threats from Osama and his directive to strike at America's homeland. 
>> I've
>> birded for thirty years with many hours spent on the CBBT. I don't like
>> being prohibited from it but accept the fact that freedom has a price. I
>> also would like to applaud the police and caretakers of the CBBT and 
>> other
>> thoroughfares for their courtesy to us in the past. We have complicated
>> their task and they have been in large part supportive. I respect the
>> decision and pray that someday conditions will change enough to allow us
>> to have access.
>>
>> Sam Collins
>> Former President
>> Virginia Beach Audubon Society
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Eugene Burreson" <gene@xxxxxxxx>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:06 PM
>> Subject: [va-bird] More birding terrorists
>>
>>
>>> Recently, as part of the Backyard Bird Count, Dave Gillett, Heidi
>>> Geist and I birded the campus of the Virginia Institute of Marine
>>> Science, where we work or are students.  The folks at the Coleman
>>> Bridge toll booth called the county sheriff on us because we were
>>> "acting suspicious and had binoculars."  After we convinced the
>>> sheriff we were harmless, we walked down under the Coleman Bridge to
>>> look for water birds.  On the way back up the hill to VIMS, a state
>>> policeman pulled up and asked us if we had been under the bridge with
>>> binoculars and cameras.  Someone had called the state police and also
>>> reported us as suspicious.  We had just convinced him that we were
>>> harmless birders when a second state trooper pulled up.  We've become
>>> a paranoid society!
>>> -- 
>>> Eugene M. Burreson
>>> Professor
>>> Department of Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health
>>> Virginia Institute of Marine Science
>>> College of William and Mary
>>> PO. Box 1346 (for mail)
>>> Rte. 1208, Greate Road (For UPS, FedEx)
>>> Gloucester Point, VA 23062 USA
>>> Phone: 804-684-7015
>>> Fax: 804-684-7796
>>> Email: gene@xxxxxxxx
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