On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:27:34 -0700, David H
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Larry Dighera wrote:

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:31:02 -0700, "Peter Duniho"
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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AVflash Volume 9, Number 43a October 20, 2003
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LOY HINTS AT GA SECURITY CHANGES

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Obviously the hope is that the perma-TFRs will actually go away. But I'm
not holding my breath.

Everyone want's things to go back the way they were in kinder and
gentler times long ago; not likely, IMO. Osama's strike at the icons
of our "invincable" nation have forever done their damage in the eyes
of the people of the world.

Don't blame Osama for the TFRs and other post 9/11 airspace grabs by the
Feds. Osama may have been responsible for the attacks on 9/11, but Americans
were (and continue to be) resposnible for the airspace restrictions.

I blame Osama only for opening the eyes of the American people and the
world to the vulnerability to significant hostile attack of our
historically strategically isolated nation.

I see the (largely ineffective, inappropriately implemented) security
related Temporary Flight Restrictions as a poorly conceived,
unilateral reaction, by the elected and appointed representatives of
the people of this nation, to the collective realization of the
startling fact, that the USA is immanently vulnerable to vicious
attack from well financed and zealously determined fanatics. I do not
see those TFRs to be directly mandated by the American people.

Presumably, the purpose of the airspace security restrictions
implemented by the TSA, with the help of the US Congress, NSA, CIA,
DHS, DOD, DOT, FAA, NORAD, ..., are to provide a volume of airspace
that exclusively contains aircraft identified as friendly (from a
security standpoint) and to provide adequate time for the aerial
interception of any potentially hostilely piloted, unidentified
aircraft before they reach their targets. Because of the physical
limitations of time and space, the cost of operating aerial
interception patrols, and past inadequacy of planning for domestic
aerial threats, the ridiculous pseudo-security-TFRs were created as a
desperate response to the hysterical demand that those agencies "do
something." What the TSA et al fails to recognize is that the
airliners commandeered by the September 11, 2001 terrorists are no
different from those currently freely permitted to operate with
impunity within the security-TFRs! To date, the security-TFRs have
only succeeded in placing the nation's federally certificated airmen
in jeopardy of being shot down and losing their certification, not
deterring hostile attacks. The nation's noble airmen have become the
expendable "kick dog" of the ineffective, bungling, bureaucratic
agencies charged with this nation's security in their pathetic attempt
to be seen as fulfilling their stated purpose.

It's time the people of this nation cry, "The king has no clothes" at
the largely theatrical pseudo-security TFRs. The TFRs over stadiums
only prevent lawful aviation operators from overflights, not
terrorists. The obviously politically motivated TFR over Disneyland
is so ineffectual at deflecting aerial terrorist attacks as to be
patently absurd. The grief inflicted on this nation's airmen by the
frequent and routinely sudden (and inadequately publicized) appearance
of presidential and vice presidential TFRs in excess of 3,000 square
miles in area extending from the surface to a height of over 3 miles
is such an onerous fiat as to be characterized as despotism, given the
hastily enacted power authorizing the shooting down of all intruder
aircraft, and the revocation of airman certificates without due
process nor recourse. The TFRs implemented over nuclear waste
facilities only point the way to the nation's soft underbelly; they
are not temporary, and they only serve to disrupt the National
Airspace System, not thwart determined aerial terrorists.

It appears that the governmental agencies tasked with securing the
nation against hostile attacks is far better at their marketing effort
of projecting false perceptions than actually implementing solidly
conceived effective security measures. I submit, that the total
abolishment of all security related TFRs is eminently preferable to
the tyrrany of the embarrassing, unconstitutional sham currently being
falsely perpetrated upon the nation's airmen and public at large in
the name of security.


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Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts.
-- Larry Dighera,