More Anti GA hysteria

Courtesy of the Boston Globe:

http://snipurl.com/8oly

The key to the story is in this last line:

"Funding for the study came from many sources, including the private
transportation industry, which has worked with the center on other
research."

This has nothing, nothing, to do with terrorism and security.

--

Roger Long



"Jeremy Lew" wrote in message
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Courtesy of the Boston Globe:

http://snipurl.com/8oly

"Roger Long" wrote in message
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The key to the story is in this last line:

"Funding for the study came from many sources, including the private
transportation industry, which has worked with the center on other
research."

This has nothing, nothing, to do with terrorism and security.



Sounds just like the "independent" study Microsoft funded which found Linux
to be 10 times as expensive as Windows.

"'The no-fly zones over these stadiums are loosely enforced," said
Anderson."

Oooo-kay, that's a good indication of this so-called "Center's"
credibility.

In article ,
"Jeremy Lew" wrote:

Courtesy of the Boston Globe:

http://snipurl.com/8oly



The *******s are still beating the drum! It is obvious to me that
someone in TSA has a hardon for GA and doesn't care what it costs or
what other impacts it has on us. It s probably the same person or group
that came up with TFRs and the DC ADIZ.

Orval Fairbairn wrote:

The *******s are still beating the drum! It is obvious to me that
someone in TSA has a hardon for GA and doesn't care what it costs or
what other impacts it has on us.

Maybe so, but it's not obvious from this. What we seem to have here is a staff writer
for a local paper who writes an inflammatory article quoting a couple of bozos from a
DC organization that nobody's heard of and which is apparently not connected with the
government. The only statements from government people are individuals who simply
state that GA security hasn't changed much; none of the government workers even imply
that GA security needs to change.

Seems to me that the person with "a hardon for GA" is named Karen Schaler and works
for the Globe.

George Patterson
If you want to know God's opinion of money, just look at the people
he gives it to.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Orval Fairbairn wrote:

The *******s are still beating the drum! It is obvious to me that
someone in TSA has a hardon for GA and doesn't care what it costs or
what other impacts it has on us.

Maybe so, but it's not obvious from this. What we seem to have here is a
staff writer
for a local paper who writes an inflammatory article

SNIP!

Seems to me that the person with "a hardon for GA" is named Karen Schaler
and works
for the Globe.

Nope, Schaler works for Channel 5, KPHO, in Phoenix, AZ. She
freelances stuff like this around the country. (Behind her Globe byline it
says coorespondent, not staff writer.) You can send her an email at:

kschaler @kpho.com

In addition to Ms Schaler, I'm going to Cc my message to:

baron @globe.com, the editor, and
hdonovan @globe.com , the executive editor, and
rgilman @globe.com , the publisher.

(Don't forget to remove the spaces in front of @ )

I love it! I can't find a plane that will carry my 240lb frame and my 4
family members without being over gross. They're worried that someone will
be able to pack enough into a Skyhawk to do damage from the middle of a
football stadium!??!?!?!?!

I'm *MUCH* more concerned about the gasoline trucks running up and down the
road than I am ANY airplane. Why can't these people think outside of what
has already happened? Lets see, they got us last time with an airplane, so
they're always gonna use airplanes! right?! Morons.

jf




"Jeremy Lew" wrote in message
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Yeh, and at the sports stadium you could also contaminate the hot dogs and
soda machines with botulism and ensure mass destruction that way too. What a
load of S**t.

My response to the writer and editors of the Globe:

**************************************
Enough is enough! Your hysteria regarding the "threat to security" of General
Aviation is a shameful and irresponsible attack on innocent, hard-working,
tax-paying productive American citizens who earn their livelihood by flying
these aircraft.

We are among the most law-abiding and careful citizens you will find, as our
lives (and our passenger's lives) depend wholly on what we do.

Your story is an insult to us. There has never been a single incident of
terrorism using small planes--and using all the creative power I can muster, I
could not envision a scenario where my little 4 place- single engine Cessna
could do any serious damage to anything.

Your "stadium scenario" is nonsense . . . it is far more likely that any of the
millions of panel trucks, rental trucks, or other vehicles can be used for
attacks.

A single motorcycle rider with a backpack full of a nerve agent of other poison
can ride through Times Square and do a lot more damage. Even a single subway
rider with a backpack full of viral agent could infect thousands and thousands
of people. Why aren't you writing stories about UNCHECKED backpacks and
motorcycles?

It's time to stop "piling on" aviators . . . we have been scapegoated long
enough for the attack on the WTC.

Your heartless scare-tactics are simply to inflame and create more irrational
fear, and to sell more papers.

Shame on you!


Lee Ross
www.Rosspilot.com
New York


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