But restrictions on so-called general aviation aircraft over New York from Sept. 11-13 were still being considered. Small private plane owners and pilots were lobbying against the proposal, said Warren Morningstar, spokesman for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
The three-day flight ban over New York would prohibit news helicopters, corporate jets and small planes carrying packages and hospital patients from flying from 17 airports, he said.[emphasis mine]
– AP story concerning proposed 9/11 restrictions that our administration admits were recommended despite no evidence of additional terrorist threats in NY
This article also notes that our brain-cell challenged friends in the White House were previously proposing a 3 day ban on all traffic from foreign airlines in and around NYC. This, of course, despite the fact that it was U.S.-owned airlines that were involved in the original attack.
Each day I think that our current administration can’t possibly do anything stupider. But then they once again provide sad fodder for late night television comics and seriously pissed local and international officials.
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
-Douglas Adams
“Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.”
– Abba Eban
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
-Albert Einstein
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
– Galileo Galilei
What wonderfully on-target quotes, Harald. Thanks!