I am truly amazed how easily you boys are willing to surrender your freedom in the name of "security." What possible "security" are we talking about. Can your toy do any damage to his plane? Can you even reach it? Are you in his flight path or even within miles of it? Can you carry anything as a payload worth the effort to be reasonably able to pose a threat? Is anything and every thing some nitwit in Washington dreams up now a threat to real aircraft? (I had a conversation with a buffoon from the FAA who "flew model planes as a child and understood just how dangerous they were." That was his rational for closing a field that had been used for years for model flying).
There comes a time when you have to pull your head out and just say "enough is enough," this is just too stupid to put up with anymore. There are millions of Moslems out there that hate and detest "infidels" and nobody will ever be 100% safe from them all. Yes, I know not all Moslems are terrorists but it seems a pretty good bet that nearly all the latest crop of terrorists have been Moslems. It's a pretty sure bet that we can't stop them all and that they have also been here all along so isn't it time to just face reality and concede a little danger is inevitable? We have to be smarter than them not dumber. Smart precautions not stupid ones need to be implemented. We have to trust each other a little more and be willing to accept responsibility and not just dumbly hand it over to unqualified people just because they are in positions of authority. Now that the secret service has decided to "ask nicely" for you to stop playing with your plastic toy plane instead of shooting you down it's all OK is it? For the record, there is no such thing as "asking nicely"! The implied power and oppression of the government is behind them. Refuse and they will carry it to whatever end they can justify. These tactics can be implemented only when out of the of public scrutiny. Most cannot stand the light of day. Publicize them and they melt away. Ridicule is a powerful tool when applied selectively, and I mean by name, down to the local level. Any reasonably intelligent person should be able to assess the threat level of a model plane as opposed to a missile and take the appropriate action. Each time they get away with it another precedent is set and more freedom is eroded away. On a certain level I could almost understand the hysteria when they closed the 30 mile circle around Salt Lake City airport during the Olympics. It being right after 911 and so nearly everyone went along with it but it set the precedent. Now, little by little, we are handing the security types our freedom. Is it because of some misguided sense of duty or is it just plan out and out fear. I'm sorry, but I cannot sit quietly by and watch it go down the toilet. I did not spend 24 years of my life protecting this country to see it handed away by liberal yuppies so afraid to loose their little area of interest that they are willing to give up mine for what they perceive as "security." You eat the elephant one little bite at a time and you surrender your freedoms the same way. It worked in Germany, Russia, China, Cuba, England, Australia and every other country that "needed" more security than freedom. Can't happen here? You had better take a look at what "homeland security" has already cost you. Motherland and Fatherland were already in use, it seems. Maybe we really are a "Nation of Cowards" as the book title suggests. Dennis Karoleski, NH, USA Sorry about the length but not the content. 8-(> RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
