Security for Sailplane Pilots??

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:49:28 -0800 (PST), Jim Kellett
wrote:

This journal influences
thinkers and policymakers, so it shouldn't be ignored. See
http://tinyurl.com/359fgyu for the full article. The author has a
legitimate concern, and generally argues for a more rational approach
to airline passenger security, BUT the likely message people will take
away from the store is "we need to restrict all aircraft operations",
including LSAs, gliders, hang gliders, you name it.


Write this guy a public letter and demand the same kind of security
checks that this guy is talking about for any truck driver before he
enters his truck.

Mention that any halfways decent-sized truck can carry twenty tons of
explosies.
Mention Oklahoma. Should be easy to get at least one Oklahoma survivor
(or someone who lost a beloved) who supports your point of view.


Then, demand these security checks for *any* car.
Very easy to add some statistics about terrorists killing thousands of
people each year using car bombs.
Very had to find *any* case for a light aircraft that has been used as
a weapon, because there has not been such a case yet.

Then ask this guy why alcohol and smoking are still allowed in God's
own country - how many tens of thousands of people are being killed
each year? Enough to characterize this stuff as weapons of mass
destruction?


Then, go to court.
Demand that the same security nonsense that is applied in aviation
should be applied to *anything* that might pose a risk.


Beat them with their own weapons.


Andreas