[Rick Masters]

After years of suffering disinformation and outright lies at the hands of paragliding enthusiasts who have hidden the truth from the public, Mythology of the Airframe has finally captured the two top spots in Google Search for "paragliding fatalities." In a responsible and honest world, the national paragliding organizations such as the USHPA or the BHPA would hold these spots - but they are nowhere to be seen. Big thanks to Joe Faust, Tommy Thompson and Rodger Hoyt for speaking the truth.

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Mythology of the Airframe - A Plague of Paragliders 2011 Fatalities
Aerodynamic Failure in Paragliding: The Terrible Truth.
http://www.cometclones.com/mythology2011.htm
[NOTE: Details of 78 paragliding deaths reported so far this year.]

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Mythology of the Airframe - A Plague of Paragliders 2010 Fatalities
Aerodynamic Failure in Paragliding: The Terrible Truth.
http://www.cometclones.com/mythology2010.htm
[NOTE: Details of the 95 paragliding deaths reported for 2010.]

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Paragliding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: ..... Low altitude wing failure can result in serious injury or death due to the ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragliding
[NOTE: For years, only information approved by PG pilots from Paragliding Forum has been allowed to stand in this Wikipedia promotional, enthusiast-run how-to on paragliding.]

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Paragliding Forum - View topic - Paragliding Accident/Fatality ...
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2659
18 posts - 10 authors - Last post: Nov 15, 2007
I need respective numbers of paragliding accidents and fatalities (in the last 10 years, if poss, otherwise whatever information available). ...
fatality in Serbia? - Oct 19, 2009
Is paragliding more dangerous ...? - May 15, 2009
Death by collision in India? - Dec 26, 2007
Howmany Lethal PG Accidents are ...? - May 18, 2005
More results from paraglidingforum.com »
[NOTE: Forum members who attempt to describe the excessive fatality and injury rate in paragliding are insulted and banned.]

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paragliding fatality - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzZ9zzuaS0
Oct 30, 2010 - 3 min - Uploaded by pgmanpg
AWESOME Powered Paragliding Death Defying Foot ...by imasuper030837468 views ·
More videos for paragliding fatalities »
[NOTE: YouTube is rich with videos making light of the dangers of paragliding - but I was banned from YouTube on complaints of PG pilots when I posted the high-resolution (but not graphic) video of Jody Lucas' last flight, made at the request of the 2002 U.S. Nationals judges in their attempt to determine what went wrong. The low-resolution video is playable only from Mythology of the Airframe.]

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Paragliding - How Safe Is It, And What Are The Stats?
ezinearticles.com ? Recreation and Sports ? Extreme
Aug 8, 2006 ? In a similar vein, I came across an insurance report that listed paragliding fatalities per participant to be less than motorcycle riding. Now that ...
[NOTE: This is the pathetic, informationless enthusiast site that held the top Google Search spot for years, built by an Australian coastal PG pilot who has never flown inland.]

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The Oz Report - Off Topic - 100 paraglider fatalities in 2009
ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20937
2 posts - 2 authors - Last post: Jul 29, 2010
I have today found a report of the 100th paraglider fatality worldwide in 2009. http://www.cometclones.com/mythology2009.htm. I will no doubt ...
[NOTE: The gutless moderator on this site relegated most discussion of paragliding fatalities to the "cess pool," where teams from Paragliding Forum were given free reign to attack, slander and lie about anyone providing information on the alarming numbers of paragliding fatalities and injuries that were being uncovered. Yet some of my posts remain, such as the quote above."]

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/gary-johnson-newt-gingrich-marijuana-hyprocrisy_n_1146739.html

Newt Gingrich A Hypocrite For Supporting Death Penalty For Marijuana Smugglers, Gary Johnson Says

WASHINGTON -- Longshot GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson attacked frontrunner Newt Gingrich for supporting the death penalty for marijuana smugglers even though he has admitted to smoking the drug himself during graduate school.

Gingrich "proposed the death penalty for marijuana -- for possession of marijuana above a certain quantity of marijuana -- and yet he is among 100 million Americans who smoke marijuana," Johnson told MSNBC’s Alex Witt over the weekend.

An outspoken critic of federal drug control policy, Johnson added he "would love to have a discussion with [Gingrich] on the fact that he smoked pot, and under the wrong set of circumstances, he proposed the death penalty for something, potentially, that he had committed?"

That's not quite right. Even under Gingrich's draconian proposal, nobody could be sentenced to death for smoking pot. But Johnson does effectively highlight one of the more outrageous pieces of drug policy to be introduced before Congress, and pushed by the GOP presidential front runner no less. In 1996 the former House Speaker sponsored the Drug Importer Death Penalty Act, under which importing more than two ounces of certain illegal substances -- including marijuana -- can be punishable by life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, has been open with the media about his own experiences smoking pot. After a paragliding accident in 2005, Johnson asserted "marijuana really helped [him] deal" with the pain, and in an interview with the New Republic he joked, "I never exhaled. His policy position on medical marijuana flows naturally from that experience.

But Gingrich, who smoked pot while in graduate school in the '60s, wants to have it both ways.

"That was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era," he told New York magazine in 1995 of his illegal drug use. And in 1982, he penned a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association calling for the legalization of medical cannabis. Federal law, he wrote, "continues to define marijuana as a drug 'with no accepted medical use,' and federal agencies continue to prohibit physician-patient access to marijuana. This outdated federal prohibition is corrupting the intent of the state laws and depriving thousands of glaucoma and cancer patients of the medical care promised them by their state legislatures."

While it's hard to pinpoint exactly when Gingrich went from calling for marijuana legalization to introducing legislation sentencing pot smugglers to death, his peculiar evolution certainly merits an explanation.

"See, when I smoked pot it was illegal," he reportedly told the Wall Street Journal's Hilary Stout in 1996, "but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn’t change, only the morality... That's why you get to go to jail and I don't."

[Bob Kuczewski]

Hi Warren,

I might be missing the connection between Paragliding Fatalities and your post. Could you help me make the connection?

Thanks.
Bob K.

[Free]

Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, has been open with the media about his own experiences smoking pot. After a paragliding accident in 2005, Johnson asserted "marijuana really helped [him] deal" with the pain, and in an interview with the New Republic he joked, "I never exhaled. His policy position on medical marijuana flows naturally from that experience.

[Bob Kuczewski]

OK. You got me.