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Article #2468Re: Off topic? Planes (My quiet street)
From: Carey Gregory
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:01
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:01
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Andrew Gideon <ag7337@gideon.org> wrote: >But the reality is the government is grandstanding while putting our >children at risk. You'll get no argument from me that most of the post-9/11 security measures are useless wastes of time and money. (But, really, there's no need to throw in the children thing for emotional effect. We're all at risk.) However, I do think flight restrictions over sensitive targets aren't unreasonable. It makes sense to defend against the threats you can within reasonable cost and disruption. Biological and nuke attacks are difficult, complex and expensive, so worrying about those from aircraft probably isn't worth the effort. Like you said, it would be easier and more effective to deliver it from land. But explosives are cheap and it does make sense to deliver them from the air since getting close to the White House (or wherever) with a box truck is likely to prove very difficult. It would be much easier to do it from the air (if airspace there was unrestricted). I've already provided the calculations showing you could put enough explosives in a Cessna to do serious damage, so it's not an unreasonable concern. Restricted airspaces have always existed in aviation. I fail to see why it's so unreasonable now.
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