[Scan-DC] Scanner Ban At Airshows

[Steve Rigby]

Blue_Angels Fan wrote:

 > I have no problem with security if it would be consistent. I was
 > allowed to bring a scanner in to the Dover AFB airshow on
 > Saturday. However, a security guy met me at my car as I was
 > getting out on Sunday, and told me I would not be allowed to take
 >  that in. I informed him I had taken it in on Saturday, and his
 > response was shaking his head no. All I want is consistency.

   Personally, it would seem to me as though some ban on scanners on
the actual premises at air shows is very, very silly and
meaningless.  Apparently, if one were just outside the gates, there
could be no such ban.  What would be a security issue inside the
gates that would not apply if one were just outside the gates?

   Consistency in policy is one issue, to be sure, but so is general
reasonableness in setting policy as opposed to policies established
just because one is capable of doing so, even if no good reason
exists to do so.

   I'd be interested to hear an explanation as to why one would be
disallowed to bring a scanner to an air show.  If security is
the issue, i.e., some party could use information gained through
scanning to perpetrate some heinous act, then ban air shows
altogether if that is the concern.  Clearly, it would not require
the use of a scanner for a vistor at an air show to perpetrate such
an act.  If the paranoia level is this high, then our enemies are
winning the overall battle in their attempts to dismantle our hard
fought liberties by causing us to undo said freedoms or rights
through our own volition.

   Perhaps I'll re-watch "Enemy of the State" again!

   Steve