"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:Odiye.121728$_o.119692@attbi_s71:

I was merely agreeing with your suggestion. :-)

Personally, I think it would be excellent to organize a mass protest
where 100s of planes all flew toward the ADIZ en masse. (Stopping short
of actually breaking the ADIZ, of course.) It could garner terrific
press coverage, and probably cause great confusion in ATC and the
Administration.

Who knows, it might even make the point that the ADIZ is pointless? It
might even result in the ADIZ shrinking, or being eliminated.

My experience with working with pilots, however, indicates that
organizing a protest of this kind would be very difficult. Getting
pilots in line is like herding cats -- it ain't gonna happen easily.

Unfortunately it would probably have the opposite effect. The government
would likely see it as an excuse to simply end GA across the board.

I could see the congressional hearings now,

"Obviously GA is a threat to the national security and should
be banned. Look at what hundreds of miscreant private pilots
did. They all worked together to attack the security of the
nations capitol. They are a threat on the same order as Al Queda."

Just as Al Queda and their kin fanaticals think so differently that
they embrace what we find appalling (eg suicide bombing), our
government thinks so differently from how a normal intelligent
educated rational human being does that they would react differently
than we would to the same situation. They've already proven that
with the existence of the ADIZ.

No, the problem is not so much organizing the protest, but rather
designing the protest to elicit the desired response.

Brian
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