<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>see below for Rep.Pingree's position on this...</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#001cd5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">"Global Network" <<a href="mailto:globalnet@mindspring.com"><font color="#001ee6" style="color: #001ee6"><u>globalnet@mindspring.com</u></font></a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#001cd5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">July 14, 2009 2:55:21 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 28, 213); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="7" style="font: 36.0px Times"><b>Just say ‘no’ to drones</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" color="#001ee6" style="font: 18.0px Times; color: #001ee6"><a href="http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2009/07/14/opinion/letters/doc4a5cc5d1149b8887888917.txt"><u>http://www.timesrecord.com/articles/2009/07/14/opinion/letters/doc4a5cc5d1149b8887888917.txt</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">Tuesday, July 14, 2009</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">Times Record</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">Our organization has become quite concerned that the town of Brunswick might soon become a host test facility for the “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” (drones) that are today being used by the Pentagon in Afghanistan-Pakistan and that are killing many innocent civilians.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">These weapons, flown by pilots sitting in chairs at bases in Nevada and New Mexico, are called the Predator and the Reaper. They are outfitted with missiles and offer the United States a so-called "hands-off" way of killing people on the ground.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">We have learned that there are now plans under way to try to turn the Brunswick Naval Air Station into the Brunswick Unmanned Flight Center, where these dreadful killing drones would be flight tested. We’ve also learned that there was a possibility the drones from BNAS would be flying up and down the Maine coast peering at boats and people for "homeland security" reasons.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">Some time ago we saw a reference in The Times Record quoting John Richardson, commissioner of Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development, saying he wanted to bring these drones to BNAS. Lately, though, the story seems to have gone underground.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">We strongly oppose basing or flight testing these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at BNAS.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">We don’t want our community involved in the expanding war in Central Asia nor do we need these drones spying on the people of Maine.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">We believe there are many other fine ideas for usage of the closing naval air station and hope that our elected officials will ensure we don't turn our community into such a test center.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times">In peace,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Times; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times"><i>Maureen Block, Bob Dale, Christine DeTroy, Bruce Gagnon, Rosalie Tyler Paul, Selma Sternlieb, Mary Beth Sullivan, Karen Wainberg as members of PeaceWorks in Brunswick</i></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Times"> -------------------------------------------------</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Rep. Chellie Pingree has request $12,750,000 for the Brunswick Unmanned Flight Center. See below for more details:</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Unmanned Flight Center, Brunswick, Maine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#001ee6" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001ee6"><a href="http://pingree.house.gov/legis/appropriations-requests.shtml"><u><b>http://pingree.house.gov/legis/appropriations-requests.shtml</b></u><u><b></b></u></a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>As your Member of Congress, I am committed to doing everything I can to support the economic and community development important to the people of the First District—that means fighting for the federal investments in our community that can grow our economy and create jobs. </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Below you will find a list of all the appropriations requests that have been made of my office. Working with my staff and a team of members of the community, we measure each request against these basic core principles:</b></font></p> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Retention and creation of jobs in Maine</b></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Long-term economic development and stability</b></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Support of ongoing, valued, community based projects</b></font></li> </ul><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>$12,750,000</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Grifin, LLC <br> 10 Mast Ln, Brunswick ME 04011 No Fax</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Continuing operations at NAS Brunswick as an Unmanned Flight Center is a means to utilize this multi-billion dollar asset to its full potential. The transition will help close an eminent national security gap, revitalize the regional economy that is suffering from the BRAC closure of the base, provide job retention and creation and lead to the development of a technology center for the emerging $62 Billion unmanned flight industry. The Unmanned Flight Center meets specific DoD objectives for the integration of unmanned flight and associated sensor technology, DOT (FAA) objectives for airspace integration regarding unmanned flight, and DHS objectives regarding Border Patrol and Coast Guard operations.</b></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div></span></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></font></div>
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