captainron1(at)cox.net
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 Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:59 am Post subject: Politics and Kolbs |
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We live in hysterical times. Every-time some fanatic in the name of Islam wants to kill people with an airplane the Napolitano crowd and Neo Fascists go into overdrive. All we can wait for is some homicide bomber to blow themselves up, and then people will be banned from everything.
Unfortunately for the families involved in those accidents its well proven that small aircraft cause minimal damage and they are no threat to anything that may scare Corporate Land. We all know that unless the Corporations are threatened (which really means the super rich puppet masters) there will not be a push to do away with our freedoms. Soccer moms, effeminates, etc really don't have a very long attention span, after a short while they forget the initial excitement and stop pursuing the "well they got to do something". So I think for the time being we are all fairly safe from additional encroachment on our liberty to fly Kolbs and Beechcraft, and so on.
---- Dana Hague <d-m-hague(at)comcast.net> wrote:
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At 06:04 AM 1/6/2010, pj.ladd wrote:
| Quote: | Do you think that the natural `authority must be wrong` attitude is a bit
overdone in this case.
Given the present security mad atmosphere would you be happy that anyone
could just roll up and push their plane through a hole in the hedge and
fly away. No control by the airport authority.
If someone did that and turned out to be an `evildoer` (lovely phrase,
could only have been invented by an American) all hell would break loose
and we should have more rgulations imposed than you could shake a stick at.
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No, I don't think it's overdone.
First, the damage an "evildoer" could do with a small plane is very
limited, far less than what one could do with. say, a truck filled with
explosives.
Second, this only applies to airports receiving federal funding, so there
are plenty of other airports that may _not_ have this policy for the
evildoer to use for his nefarious purposes (another good word, picture
Doctor Evil stroking his cat and laughing hysterically while plotting world
domination in his Kolb).
Third, it doesn't even apply to aircraft on trailers coming through the
gate... it only applies to people who own property directly adjacent to the
airport (i.e. fly-in communities and businesses adjacent to the airport)...
a small enough group that the airport authority presumably can verify that
they're aren't "evildoers".
It's all about pointless expansion of government power, by bureaucrats who
don't have a clue, to please people who don't have a clue.
-Dana
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