Regarding security, I think you ask the $99 question: "What reasonable
standard exists to protect the public without infringing too much on
the right of the law-abiding?" Trade-offs suck, but when we have
psychotic terrorists killing our citizens, using our "freedoms" to their
twisted advantage, I think everyone would agree that their needs to be
some restrictions on personal liberty.

It's "there needs to be". Spelling aside, I do =not= agree with this at
all. It is the price of freedom. Freedom disappears long before
security appears.

My criticisms of GA are limited mostly to complete lack of community
control over any aspect of airport operations at many facilities.

If every town set its own flight rules, flying would become so
impractical as to disappear. Noise rules =are= a kind of flight rules.

Jose
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