More evidence of weak security at GA airports

by "cjcampbell" Nov 2, 2005 at 10:49 PM


Skylune wrote:
by "Steve Foley" Nov 1, 2005 at 01:15 PM


Skylune would simply close the airports and crush all the planes.

"cjcampbell" wrote in message
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If you're so smart, how would you have prevented this crime?


For starters, I would hire baton-wielding security guards from the
local
mall to check IDs and beat the hell out of trespassers or thieves. Such
a
guard could have asked the pilot/thief for a registration to prove
ownership of the plane he was tearing down (or proof that he was
performing authorized repairs).

Since most airplanes are owned by corporations then the guard is going
to have some difficulty with that.

"Hey! Who are you?"

"John Smith"

"Let's see the registration of that plane. Says it is owned by Sky
Loons." (Beats John Smith, the CEO and sole owner of Sky Loons, Inc.,
half to death.)

Smith sues the security guard, the airport, the FAA, and everybody else
he can think of. The guard goes to prison for assault with a deadly
weapon. Alternatively, Smith shoots the guard and is found to have
acted in self defense.


(I would of course demand that the FAA fund these security agents from
general taxpayer funds because of the vital economic benefits of GA to
the
entire nation.)

Then, I would empower the security guards to take all reasonable
measures
to enforce noise abatement procedures, in close contact with tower
personnel of course, so that only pilots that have unmistakenly been
identified as violators would be beaten.

If there is a tower. You going to have the guard carry a decibel meter?
Laser rangefinder? (Guard is arrested as terrorist for shining laser on
airplane.) "Unmistakenly," eh? So you are going to institute cruel and
unusual punishment, completely unconstitutional, and you are going to
have one guy, a mall guard, be cop, judge, jury and executioner, with
no due process or appeal.

Since when does noise abatement improve airport security?

Sky Loon, sounds like you would be much happier in some totalitarian
state rather than in the United States of America. In the USA, people
have rights. They are presumed innocent until proven guilty. They
cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process.
They may not be beaten or tortured in any way. People are allowed to
travel freely despite the fact that some others might be annoyed by it.
People who buy homes next to airports are presumed to be smart enough
to know that airports are noisy. Freeways are even noisier. Are you
next going to buy a home next to the freeway, impose noise restrictions
on it, and beat all the truck drivers with batons?

Now then, let us see if you can come up with something to improve
security that would actually work without locking everybody up in
detention centers.



It was just a joke...