[Scan-DC] Scanner Ban At Airshows

[Frank Carson]

> [Original Message]
> From: James Sheridan-Peters <scan@alienracing.net>
> To: <scan-dc@mailman.qth.net>; Willard Hardman <hardman1@ix.netcom.com>
 > Date: 5/28/02 11:54:40
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Scanner Ban At Airshows
>
> > I am not going to get into a contest over this - but please READ my
> messages
> > again.
> >
> > As for your tangential point, should we all therefore just throw up our
> > hands and surrender to what you seem to perceive to be the inevitable?
> 
> The simple question, to my mind, is this:  Does preventing people from
> bringing these devices into the show prevent the incident security is
> guarding against?   If the answer is yes, go to it with my blessing.  If
no,
> then the measures serve no purpose save to limit the actions of everyone.
> 
> If I can sit in my car on the road outside Andrews and use a scanner
somehow
> to trigger an incident at an airshow then how does preventing me from
> bringing inside the grounds mean anything?  Hell, a criminal doing such a

  The military police don't have the authority to ban such things off of
the base,
but they do on the base.  They can only do what they can.

--- Frank Carson
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