Why not have all airline passengers fly sedated and strapped
in a straight jacket?

Or arm all pilots and passengers, search for bombs and
profile passengers to fins and screen the known risks.

But actually looking for a Muslim terrorist is some how
religious intolerance. It seems that when there is a bank
robbery and the media reports a white man, with a beard,
5-10-6 feet wearing a T-shirt and ball cap, or a Hispanic
male as the suspect it's is OK, but when they don't report a
description, we "know" it was a black man.

Airplane hijacked by little white haired lady with knitting
needles, we know it was a woman. But if they say riots in
Paris, cars burned, police station burned by "youths" we
know it was Muslim youthful terrorist wannabes.



"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
| I remember you made a big deal out of going to Dulles,
for a special
| event where the way was paved for you. But that's not
the same as
| flying over the Nation's Capital. Washington DC is
=inside= the FRZ.
|
| Well, the way into the Washington ADIZ wasn't paved for
us -- we had to
| do everything by the book. It took ten minutes, tops, and
was no more
| difficult than filing any other kind of flight plan.
|
| Now, if you're talking about flying over the White House
or the
| National Mall, well, duh.
|
| 2. With only a few airworthy space shuttles left --
and a political
| climate that makes replacing them impossible -- I see
nothing wrong
| with restricting the airspace around Cape Canaveral.
|
| Why? Perhaps a little one mile ring to keep people who
can't maneuver
| an airplane with that degree of precision away, but if
you think this
| keeps intentional harm away from the complex, that is
laughable.
|
| You don't think it's appropriate to have a no-fly zone
around the
| Kennedy Space Center? Tell me, Jose, where DO you think a
no-fly zone
| is appropriate?
|
| 3. I'm sure I can buy wine anywhere.
|
| So what? The freedom to carry =my= wine in =my=
carry-on is not a silly
| freedom.
|
| Yes, it is. And it's just another impetus to spur the
growth of GA, in
| any case.
|
| Besides, many of the wines one can get in California are
not
| available anywhere else. There just isn't enough made.
I don't want
| the government telling me what wine I can drink, which
is what
| effectively happens.
|
| And if a terrorist smuggles four "bottles" of explosives
on the plane,
| killing everyone on board, well, that's just acceptable
collateral
| damage? After all, your merlot was an excellent year!
|
| Gimme a break.
|
| I guess you wouldn't understand though. You drink beer.

|
| Exactly. ;-)
|
| The wine rule came about because wine is a liquid, and
somebody tried to
| use liquid explosive. Ever played with powdered sugar
around a heat
| source?
|
| Not recently.
|
| 4. Letting people carry weapons on an airliner has
proven to be a "bad
| thing." I believe this restriction is in the "common
sense" category.
|
| People carrying weapons is not a Bad Thing. It is only
when Bad people
| carry weapons where Good people can't that it's a Bad
Thing. And a
| Swiss Army Knife is not a weapon, except in the sense
that anything can
| be used as one (including a pencil).
|
| The PA airliner didn't make it to the White House
because Good People
| fought the terrorists back. The solution is to keep
weapons away from
| Good People. Hmmm. Common sense?
|
| No, the solution is to make all airline passengers fly
naked. I'd fly
| on THAT airline.
|
| ;-)
|
| 1. The library rule will be overturned. Luckily, it's
so unworkable,
| in practice, that it is not used.
|
| Really? You must get more use out of your time machine
than you do out
| of the Pathfinder. I don't see any reason for the
government to
| overturn the library rule, and it's the government that
made it. All
| they have to do is keep quiet about it. As it is, most
people aren't
| aware of it, and many that are are of the opinion that
"if you aren't
| reading anything bad, you have nothing to worry about."
|
| How do you know that the library rule is not used? Part
of the rule is
| that the librarians are NOT ALLOWED TO SAY when it's
been used.
|
| Because the librarians around here protested it when it
first was
| announced, and declared that it would not be followed.
Remember, Iowa
| City has gone so far as to declare itself to be a "Nuclear
Weapons-Free
| Zone", and is the only city in America to elect a
card-carrying member
| of the communist party.
|
| No one rounded up the librarians when they said that, and
no one will.
| It's a dumb, unenforceable, unworkable law, that will fall
by the
| wayside like the 200,000 other stupid laws we've got on
the books that
| no one obeys.
|
| 2. I hadn't heard that US citizens could have their
homes searched
| without due process. Are you referring to wire
tapping overseas phone
| calls?
|
| Anybody can have their homes searched without due
process if the feds
| use the magic words "national security". I'm also
referring to aspects
| of "home" that are not geographical, such as the
contents of your hard
| drive (which may be seized and searched if you try to
bring a laptop on
| an airliner), the expanded wiretapping and internet
tapping
| surveillance, and other tramplings of what we once
considered private.
| These measures are being pushed through without much
resistance, in the
| name of National Security. Each one passed makes it
easier to pass the
| next one.
|
| 3. I hadn't head that US citizens could be held
without charges being
| brought.
|
| If the charges are based on National Security, the
government could deem
| them too secret to present to you. I have no first-hand
experience with
| this, but I am no longer convinced that we are not all
vulnerable to it.
|
| We're going to win the war on terrorism just like we won
the war on drugs.
|
| You may be right, but I haven't heard any alternative
responses that
| make any more sense.
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination"
|
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