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Jose wrote:
A man being harassed for riding a bicycle on a public road because
it is near an airport

Well, from the OP the road was =on= the airport.

Jose is correct - the road I was on was inside the fenced, gated area of
the airport. There are city streets on three sides of the airport that
are outside of the fence, but that wasn't where I was.

Matt Roberds


Agreed. But in our case we have minimum wage security personnel coming
=outside= airport security fences and harassing people parking on the
easement of a 4 lane highway, just because they want to safely park and
watch the jets land. It was a well used area pre 911, and you could often
see entire families there, admiring the big aircraft as they landed.

The only rational given to me by security personnel was that it would be a
good place for someone to park and shoot at an approaching aircraft. But
just 300 feet north is the border for a huge, heavily wooded, public park
with no security at all. I myself, have been harassed one evening when I
stopped to watch a few aircraft with a girlfriend.

My point is simply to support Denny's message. Whether it be the Patriot Act
or just post 911 nonsense, we are paying some very unreasonable prices for
our countries inability to effectively deal with the real situation.