Uh-oh: CBS News to air anti-GA hit piece on Wed. 1/14

This is all I could find on the CBS website:

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NEW YORK



(CBS) And here's an early look at what we're working on for tomorrow's
broadcast:

There are thousands of general aviation airstrips around the country with
little or no security. How can that be after 9-11? We'll have the story on
Wednesday's CBS Evening News.

If you would like more information on any of these stories or the broadcast,
please click on the following address and e-mail us:

This next link will take you to their video preview page where if you scroll
down to last link called-
Evening News: Next
It will bring up the ad for the GA piece.
What a farce!
I guess next they'll do a piece on how I can take my boat
anywhere I please without reporting to the Government.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_vi...s500251.shtml#

We need someone, perhaps AOPA, to publically voice their concern on how easy it
would be to take a van, paint it up to look like a CBS News Van, pack it with
explosives, and drive it to city hall, mall etc.
Does security ever stop the press & do vehicle checks?? Doubt it

John

Takeing off on your thoughts I sent the following to CBS.

General Aviation Security Story
I just don't get it.

The media's inaccurate reporting and constant craving for hype and
sensational stories strikes again, this time the media's paranoid and
delusional spotlight has focused on the supposed lack of security and the
invisible threat that general aviation has on the American public. While
security levels vary at airports used primarily for general aviation, so do
the security levels at harbors, train stations, freight yards, beaches,
stadiums, and your neighborhood mall, or god forbid your neighborhood
school. Just because a group of terrorists chose commercial airliners as
their weapons of choice, it does not mean that the next logical step is for
them to continue to exploit aviation as a means of terror. What if they
would have used a semi-tanker full of fuel? Would that mean that every
freight yard in the country must implement new security measures? What if
they would have used a ship or a boat and destroyed a harbor? Harbors
haven't been put in your spot light. What if they would have chosen to
de-rail several of the nations passenger and freight trains? Should we now
put fences along all railroad tracks across the entire nation? Do you
honestly think that public parking garages or stadium parking lots monitor
the contents of every vehicle as well as do identity checks on their
drivers??? Why not? What if they would have rented a white truck and
parked it outside a mall, school, packed stadium, in a basement parking
garage, or even a federal building then blew it up? Hey! didn't that happen
the first time the WTC was bombed and then it happened in Oklahoma city?
Hmm... people still rent white trucks!!! And weren't they initially looking
for a white van in the sniper case?? Clearly white vehicles should be
banned, they are always being used by terrorists. Aren't your news vans
white? Now I have proof that news crews drive around in terrorist vehicles!
I'm just useing your own logic. Have you people forgotten what country we
live in and what rights and privileges the law abiding public is supposed to
have?

I'd really like to know just what type of security you think should be in
place at general aviation airports. First you must convince me that you
believe a threat actually exists, what that threat is, and what historic
events lead you to believe that the threat will occur again. Simply saying
something is possible and somebody "might" be able to do this or that isn't
enough. It equates to saying "because guns exist, we're all in danger of
being shot" or "because cars exist and they've been known to crash, every
passenger is at risk of crashing and being killed". Raising fear in the
public's eyes is not doing justice to their intelligence nor providing a
public service.

Jim Burns III

Jim ) wrote:

Takeing off on your thoughts I sent the following to CBS.
snip

Hopefully you sprinkled a few more paragraph breaks in your CBS letter.
Makes it a bit easier to read.

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Peter












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You'll never get CBS to air a report like that on TV.

You might have a shot of getting the Newspapers to, tho.


(ISLIP) wrote in
:

We need someone, perhaps AOPA, to publically voice their concern on how
easy it would be to take a van, paint it up to look like a CBS News
Van, pack it with explosives, and drive it to city hall, mall etc.
Does security ever stop the press & do vehicle checks?? Doubt it

John