I think flight 93, the one that went down in a field in Pennsylvania, was a
lesson to the terrorists and should be a lesson to folks who love freedom
more than thoughtless knee jerk reactive regulation.

The lesson is this, give free individuals information and they will, for the
most part, do the right thing, up to and including sacrificing their lives
to protect others. The government didn't save us from any of the four
attempted attacks on 9-11. Our fellow citizens did save us from one of
them.

Commercial airliners won't be used again as missiles because we the
passengers won't allow it, not because the authorities make us undress and
unpack before we are allowed into the terminal.

All of the new procedures at airports are simply demonstrations of the axiom
that generals always plan for the last war. The next big terrorist attack
will be carried out with a truck bomb, or a computer, or a cargo jet, or a
shipping container, or a livestock disease, or a rail car, or a human
disease, or lone gunmen, or, or, or..... The commercial airline was taken
off the table as a weapon of terror by the men and women of flight 93.
Thank God for their heroism.

Oh, about the airspace violation--have the TSA & FAA call a press briefing
where the miscreant apologizes to the citizens of New York and to all of the
responsible private aviators around the world for damaging their reputation.
After his apology, he would surrender his certificate to the FAA.

Brent

"BAToulson" wrote in message
...
In article , Gerhard Wesp
writes:


I'm don't want to praise airspace violations, but the people who ``put
the nails in our coffin'' are those who invent new restrictions without
any sense. E.g., the Restr. areas around German nuclear power plants.
Or the new vigourous controls for GA passengers (also Germany). Or
the abolishment of cockpit visits.

And where the hell have been during the last two years, head in the sand??

Barney

UK And a frequent airline traveller who applauds the determination of
governments and others to prevent a repeat of 9.11. Unfortunately, you
will
never know how many such actions are prevented, only those that succeed.