Do we, as a group, just suck?

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:06:31 GMT, "Hilton"
wrote in . net::

I can understand pilots clipping the edge of a 'hot' area, or flying through
an area that just became 'hot', and things like that. But buzzing the Santa
Cruz beach (the wheel reportedly nearly hit a young boy), having to evacuted
the DC buildings several times, flying near Pad 39B on launch day... I just
don't get it.

It's an error to equate those two incidents. Buzzing is a prohibited
activity willfully and intentionally committed by the irresponsible
among our ranks. Airmen who commit such wanton acts should be
permanently bared from obtaining an airmans certificate.

The evacuations of bureaucrats and politicians is an unreasonable
response to a nonexistent threat foisted on them by incompetent
security bureaucrats who should be made to bear the consequences of
their inept policies; airmen are the victims of these uselessly
oppressive policies, not the perpetrators.

[...]

It just frustrates me that most of us try hard to do the right thing (e.g.
noise abatement), then others make the news.


If the profit motive underling yellow journalism* were somehow
removed, it would be reasonable to expect balanced news coverage. But
in a capitalistic society money wins over idealism.


* http://www.humboldt.edu/~jcb10/yellow.html