Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

My congressman, my two senators and my personal friends who are congressional staffers ALL tell me they are being heavily lobbied by Boeing to support Boeing manufacturing jobs and ease up on both foreign ownership rules and cabotage. Sheik [whats his name] is quoted as saying Boeing can take their airplanes back if they don't get their access to the US markets. That shows me Boeing's complicity in political influence peddling and aircraft orders contingent upon changing US laws. This is as close as we'll probably ever get because parties don't normally write influence peddling contingencies into contracts. Those kind of understandings are verbal. The Sheik just verbally reminded Boeing of it just the other day.

People like you would probably not believe it with a videotape of the conversation, so stop the charade that evidence doesn't meet your standard. Your bread is being buttered somehow by this stuff staying concealed. My bread is buttered by shining light on this and hoping US law remains the same. We'll see who wins.

Carl