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

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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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
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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

David H wrote in message ...
I just saw a "teaser" piece during the CBS Evening News promoting their
"investigation" on security at GA airports, to air tomorrow (Wed.
1/14). It looks like it's going to be just awful.


Snipped from the CBS website: There's an email address I plan on
sending an email to.

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(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:

AOPA has something up on this on the home page.

Just saw the teaser via the CBS website. I sent them a well-reasoned and
thoughtful e-mail, which of course means it will be promptly discarded.
Still it can't hurt.

I'm going to try and record it tonight on video tape.

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Cecil
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"
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"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote in message
om...
AOPA has something up on this on the home page.

Just saw the teaser via the CBS website. I sent them a well-reasoned and
thoughtful e-mail, which of course means it will be promptly discarded.
Still it can't hurt.


Actually it will hurt. CBS is a BUSINESS that is measured by the number or
people who watch their programming and the more feedback they get the better
(to them).

Mike
MU-2


I'm going to try and record it tonight on video tape.

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Good Flights!

Cecil
PP-ASEL

Check out my personal flying adventures complete with pictures and text
at:
www.bayareapilot.com

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"
- Cecil Day Lewis -
"

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...
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| "Cecil E. Chapman" wrote in message
| om...
| AOPA has something up on this on the home page.
|
| Just saw the teaser via the CBS website. I sent them a well-reasoned
and
| thoughtful e-mail, which of course means it will be promptly discarded.
| Still it can't hurt.
|
|
| Actually it will hurt. CBS is a BUSINESS that is measured by the number
or
| people who watch their programming and the more feedback they get the
better
| (to them).
|

Actually, the email signaled to CBS that their show will be watched by every
pilot in the country. No doubt there are CBS executives sitting around
saying, "That worked pretty well. Let's do it again."

C J Campbell wrote:

Actually, the email signaled to CBS that their show will be watched by
every pilot in the country. No doubt there are CBS executives sitting
around saying, "That worked pretty well. Let's do it again."

So here I am, ready to write something. I see your point, but what
alternative is there to complaining? I don't like the idea of ignoring it.

What do people suggest?

BTW, I was planning to ask when they'll be discussing the fact that trucks
can go anywhere without flight plans or talking to ground traffic control.
Considering how often trucks have been used in terrorist attacks, both
world-wide and in the US, this is terrifying.

I wasn't even going to mention that I'm a pilot (it's not really relevant to
my point).

- Andrew