Am I to assume you perform open-heart surgery on yourself instead of
consulting a specialist?

The primary job of the Secret Service is to protect the President and other
officials. And they are pretty well world-renowned for their expertise.
Quite reasonably, the President generally defers to their judgment.

But since 9/11, far too many of us have lined up like sheep behind various
security "experts", forgetting that security experts don't make any money
unless they continually come up with new threats, along with the associated
responses.

But, just like walking safely down the street at midnight, preventing
terrorism first requires an application of common sense. And frequently,
that's all that needs to be applied.

We all like to talk about ADIZ's and TFR's, but they are only the tip of a
very large iceberg. What we need is for all of us to contact our elected
leaders and demand a rational re-evaluation of the security measures now in
place with the primary purpose of eliminating as many of them as possible.
When people have to wait 6 hours in an airport security line in order to
make a 30 minute flight because a rat ran through the terminal, something is
very wrong.

It's time to make some realistic threat assessments and put some realistic
security measures and equipment in place!

And don't even get me started on guns in the cockpit...


"Jay Masino" wrote in message
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John T wrote:
bother to vote). Contrary to what some will have you believe, though,
the
occupant of the White House has no input into this process. It's the
security bureaucracy that makes this call - and they don't report to the
electorate. See the closing of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC
for a
previous example under a different political party. The security folks
take
their job - protecting the *office*, not the person - very seriously.
Unfortunately, we're suffering the side-effects of their vigor.

I think the President *could* do something. He could go to the head of
the Secret Service and say "lift the ADIZ and reduce the number of TFRs or
you're fired". If that he resists, he fires him, and goes to the next in
the command chain. At some point, the Secret Service "management" would
do it. But that would assume the President had balls.

--- Jay



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