Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So, are you implying that the Right to Bear Arms should apply on airplanes??? Even taking the silly legalistic point of view, an airplane is private property, and as far as I know the owner of a private property has the right to restrict people from bringing in weapons onto that property, or any other items for that matter. This whole debate is plain silly. Yes, security precautions are inconvenient, but what is the alternative? I just flew from Zurich to Tel Aviv and back. I assure you that the checks at Tel Aviv airport in particular are most inconvenient, and it is certainly not pleasant having to show up 2 1/2 hour early for an 8 a.m. flight--but I also know that no El Al plane has been hijacked in the past 25 years, and I am grateful for the safety. And by the way, in most airports outside the U.S. the security checks are carried out by professional, properly trained law enforcement officers, not minimum-wage rent-a-cops. Nathan Jeffery Smith wrote: > Whenever someone invokes the old "we are at war" clause (which G.W. does > incessantly), it seems that the Bill of Rights goes on the back burner. > Before 9/11, the airlines had to revoke Freedom of Speech (yes, people > making offhand remarks got bounced from flights) and Right to Bear Arms, > and they have had to take the search and seizure thing one rung higher. > Apparently our founding fathers didn't think of terrorism when they penned > those rights (and this was only 3 years after America's first act of > terrorism...the Boston Tea Party!). - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html