Anniston Star
09-02-2003

By our readers

Incineration

According to certain officials, the incinerator is fool proof. If that is a fact why then were the gas masks, air filters, duct tape and plastic sheets given to the citizens in the specified danger zones? Time and time again we have been told that all is well, not to worry, there will be no accident(s) during the destruction of the stored weapons.

The gas mask is a one-time use item with no plans to re-issue in the event of a false alarm or a serious alarm; and the incinerator will not shut down while all citizens are issued another gas mask, which is not in stock nor funded.

Try sealing yourself and family off in a room with no air (summer or winter) for about an hour — not a very pleasant experience if you can stay in the room that long.

Many people have the ostrich syndrome when the conversation turns to the incinerator.

The president has yet to find in Iraq weapons of mass destruction, perhaps the reason is they are all here.

The governor's tax plan, if not passed will (according to him) have dire consequences and throw the state into fiscal chaos. That should be the least of our worries, for if the incinerator process fails our tax worries will be over.

I am not a proponent for the incinerator nor do I have an alternate plan for destroying the weapons. Further, I have no faith in the officials or the government who tout the infallibility of the incinerator, nor do I have any faith in the shelter-in-place with equipment useless as a three-legged horse in the Kentucky Derby.

T.J. Summers
Saks