[Scan-DC] Scanner Ban At Airshows

[Willard Hardman]

I often agree with Mr. Rigby, but in this case do not.  Unfortunately I am
constrained from going into details.  I would suggest, however, that one
might go back, inter alia, and check how SEMTEX was used to bring down the
Pan Am flight at Lockerbie as well as several other such incidents in
France, Spain, and Ulster.  Granted in only one incident of which I am aware
was a scanner used, but the others employed similar electronic devices.

Regards
Bill Hardman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Rigby" <srigby@smart.net>
To: <scan-dc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Scanner Ban At Airshows


> 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
>
>
>
>
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