Leon McAtee wrote:
I know the Franklin quote. He's wrong. Anyone who isn't willing

to
give up a little bit of their freedom to save the lives of their
children, neighbors and friends is a selfish *******.

I'd risk my personal safety to protect the lives of my neighbors, but
never my freedom. If that makes me a "selfish *******" than so be it.

Besides your logic here is severly flawed. In this case the little
freedom given up, and the burden placed on those giving instruction,
will not save one single life, unless you count the life of the paper
pushing bureocrat charged with auditing all of the flight instructors
records, that takes advantage of his tax payer paid health plan.
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Leon McAtee

Do not forget the addage that if you make enough laws, everyone becomes
a criminal. Then when you're in power, you get to lock up whoever you
so choose.

What worries me is that I have to present my birth certificate to a
flight instructor, who is required by law to keep a copy of it. I've
had a person steal my birth certificate, get a driver license with it,
and then get tickets that were charged to me. The guy paid the tickets
so that I never knew they existed...UNTIL..I lost MY drivers license,
and I was a truck driver at the time. The police just laughed when I
tried to explain that I had never driven a Ford Bronco.

Now the Federal government will have semi-professional flight
instructors keep a stash of the personal documents of a lot of highly
paid people (most people who can afford to fly have some means). I
trained at a little airport way out of town. The front door was never
locked (so people could use the phone for flight planning), and the door
to the CFI's office could be taken out with a good shoulder shove. This
bill is an advertisement for anyone wanting to play the identity theft game.

I'll give up freedoms for safety...WHEN THE LOSS OF FREEDOM PRODUCES
SOME SAFETY!! This bill makes no one any safer except those who would
like all the documents they wish to steal to be stored in a central,
unguarded place.

In this case, I would not object to registering with the FAA before
getting flight instruction. It would only have been a difference of
about 4mos for me, before I had to register with them anyway. The FAA
can then clear that through any other government agency. But CFI's do
not have the training or facilities to handle personal documents.

--
http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/
"This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make
mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their
decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."