On Jan 11, 10:58*am, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:49:28 -0800 (PST), Jim Kellett

wrote:
This journal influences
thinkers and policymakers, so it shouldn't be ignored. See
http://tinyurl.com/359fgyufor the full article. *The author has a
legitimate concern, and generally argues for a more rational approach
to airline passenger security, BUT the likely message people will take
away from the store is "we need to restrict all aircraft operations",
including LSAs, gliders, hang gliders, you name it.

Write this guy a public letter and demand the same kind of security
checks that this guy is talking about for any truck driver before he
enters his truck.

Mention that any halfways decent-sized truck can carry twenty tons of
explosies.
Mention Oklahoma. Should be easy to get at least one Oklahoma survivor
(or someone who lost a beloved) who supports your point of view.

Then, demand these security checks for *any* car.
Very easy to add some statistics about terrorists killing thousands of
people each year using car bombs.
Very had to find *any* case for a light aircraft that has been used as
a weapon, because there has not been such a case yet.

Then ask this guy why alcohol and smoking are still allowed in God's
own country - how many tens of thousands of people are being killed
each year? Enough to characterize this stuff as weapons of mass
destruction?

Then, go to court.
Demand that the same security nonsense that is applied in aviation
should be applied to *anything* that might pose a risk.

Beat them with their own weapons.

Andreas

Light planes actually have been used as suicide weapons, but match
sticks and arson cause more destruction and loss of life than light
planes with suicidal pilots.

What's really weird about this article is that Mr. Goldberg was
actually pretty good on Colbert (I saw it on youtube) -- he's the guy
that coined the term "security theater" to describe the complete
nonsense that now goes on daily at US airline terminals. Reading this
article makes me think he's more interested in simply stirring the pot
than bringing actual sense back to the fore.

It'd be really heartening to see some less paranoid people in
government office....

-Evan Ludeman / T8