Got my BFR ahead of the TSA rule

"Gig Giacona" wrote in message
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But, Gary, what they are requiring is that you prove US citizenship, or
the authorization from the US government if you are not a citizen, to
receive instruction from a person certificated by the that same US
Government to give said instruction. Plus, that particular instruction,
not on could be, but has been used in an attack on the citizens of the US.

1) The presence or absence of government certification of an instructor has
no bearing on how dangerous the imparted knowledge is. 2) Instruction in
driving a car, and in basic chemistry, has also been used in a large-scale
terrorist attack on US citizens. 3) If the goal is to prevent future
attacks, we must consider not just the forms of knowledge that have already
been used against us, but those that might be in the future. So the
rationale for criminalizing unauthorized learning about aviation can be
applied much more generally.

--Gary