My response to the writer and editors of the Globe:

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Enough is enough! Your hysteria regarding the "threat to security" of General
Aviation is a shameful and irresponsible attack on innocent, hard-working,
tax-paying productive American citizens who earn their livelihood by flying
these aircraft.

We are among the most law-abiding and careful citizens you will find, as our
lives (and our passenger's lives) depend wholly on what we do.

Your story is an insult to us. There has never been a single incident of
terrorism using small planes--and using all the creative power I can muster, I
could not envision a scenario where my little 4 place- single engine Cessna
could do any serious damage to anything.

Your "stadium scenario" is nonsense . . . it is far more likely that any of the
millions of panel trucks, rental trucks, or other vehicles can be used for
attacks.

A single motorcycle rider with a backpack full of a nerve agent of other poison
can ride through Times Square and do a lot more damage. Even a single subway
rider with a backpack full of viral agent could infect thousands and thousands
of people. Why aren't you writing stories about UNCHECKED backpacks and
motorcycles?

It's time to stop "piling on" aviators . . . we have been scapegoated long
enough for the attack on the WTC.

Your heartless scare-tactics are simply to inflame and create more irrational
fear, and to sell more papers.

Shame on you!


Lee Ross
www.Rosspilot.com
New York


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