Pilot runs out of fuel waiting for security clearance

A suicide bomber in Jerusalem, with 30 pounds of explosives strapped to
his belt, can murder and injure dozens of innocent people in restaurants,
night clubs, markets, and bus stations. You don't believe that 500 pounds
of explosives in a suicide-bomber's Cessna is a potential security
threat?

Perhaps you don't believe that someone could fly a jet airliner into a
skyscraper and take it down completely, either.

Most people didn't, until it happened - twice. Now, most people are on a
high-security kick. You can say what you want about ignorance and
foolishness, but I think you should wake up and face reality a minute.

Absurd or not, those TFRs are probably saving you from much more serious
hassles and inconveniences.


"Peter Duniho" wrote in
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"Judah" wrote in message
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The merit is CRYSTAL clear to me.

You have a funny definition of "crystal".

If the general public is not lead to believe that they are secure,
they will demand REAL security measures to protect them from GA
pilots.

You are seriously confused. It isn't the nature of the security
measures that makes them absurd. It's the question of whether they are
necessary. GA is simply not a threat that warrants the kind of measures
being implemented. MORE security measures would be more absurd, and in
any case, the worry that those extra security measures might be
implemented in no way makes the existing ones any less absurd.

I repeat: placating an ignorant populus does not qualify as a "merit".
It is a foolish reason to implement security measures, and anyone who
thinks there's merit in security measures implemented solely to placate
an ignorant populus is a fool.

Pete