Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:56:13 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Walter Williams- We Should Rebel Against the FAA
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<http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20010926.shtml>

Walter Williams
September 26, 2001

Airport safety regulations

Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta, Czar Norman, has 
ordered new, ill-thought out, oppressive airline regulations in the 
wake of recent terrorist attacks. Among them: a ban on knives -- 
plastic or steel -- anywhere in the airport and on airplanes, even in 
kitchens, no curbside check-in, restricted carry-on luggage, no 
visitors beyond security checkpoints and who knows what else.

[...]

The new air safety regulations are consistent with today's anti-crime 
strategies: If people commit crimes with guns, call for gun control; 
if people commit crimes with knives, call for knife control. Current 
law prohibits pilots from having guns to protect their crew and 
passengers. That law should be changed.

Instead of meekly going along with the FAA's new, costly, oppressive 
and stupid safety regulations, Americans should rebel against them. 
Are we so timid and feminized that we'll accept anything politicians 
do in the name of safety?

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