I don’t why I listened to your show about the continuing F-35 debacle, I suppose even from evil bias one can learn something.
How did you manage to get through without mentioning or allowing to surface the leaked evaluation of the RAND corporation following war game simulations where the F-35 was outclassed by the Sukhoi Su-35 as well as a version of the Chinese Chengdu fighter series? It is what had triggered the international F-35 discontent, eventually spilling into Canada.
This capability study of the F-35 Lightning 2 aircraft was summarized by former US Air force officer and Rand researcher John Stillion with the following assessment: ”cant turn, can’t climb, can’t run”. The Australian government, the US Navy and others paid attention, but certainly not the Harper government.
At the time my blog entry F-35 Double Insult was syndicated by several print and internet media.
It wouldn’t be me to bring it forward since I was blacklisted from your show on Remembrance Day 2007 because I mentioned the Canadian MacPap veterans from the Spanish Civil War. And the trinket you promised me for supposedly just not making it to one of the following shows after two hours stand by on the phone never arrived, showing disdain to liberty and honour, not very good, Rex.
Given the unfairness and disrespect you consistently show to oil and gas fracking critics and democratic tradition in general, I say:
You are a hopeless reactionary, but still, frack your drinking water
Peter Becker, Whitehorse
