"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Gig Giacona" wrote in message
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But, Gary, what they are requiring is that you prove US citizenship, or
the authorization from the US government if you are not a citizen, to
receive instruction from a person certificated by the that same US
Government to give said instruction. Plus, that particular instruction,
not on could be, but has been used in an attack on the citizens of the
US.

1) The presence or absence of government certification of an instructor
has no bearing on how dangerous the imparted knowledge is. 2) Instruction
in driving a car, and in basic chemistry, has also been used in a
large-scale terrorist attack on US citizens. 3) If the goal is to prevent
future attacks, we must consider not just the forms of knowledge that
have already been used against us, but those that might be in the future.
So the rationale for criminalizing unauthorized learning about aviation
can be applied much more generally.

--Gary

It does have a bearing on the governments ability to regulate though. If you
have knowledge of chemistry nobody is trying to stop you from teaching it to
anyone you choose. If you happen to be a public school chemistry teacher
they most certainly do control whom you teach it to while on duty at the
public school.

I know how to fly and have been certificated to do so in both Fixed Wings
since 1980 and Helicopters since 1996. I am not however a CFI. Could I teach
you how to fly? Probably. Could I sign you off for a check ride? No. There
is nothing in that rule that stops me from teaching you what I know. It does
stop a CFI from using a privilege he has been granted by the US government
to certain people that government has decided it doesn't want to have that
information.

Basically what they have done is restrict a privilege they provided in the
first place.