AOPA vs CBP

[bahama flier]

Looks like AOPA has heard enough complaints from GA pilots to realize these stops and searches are becoming commonplace, and the complaints are real and searches were baseless.

The AOPA President has asked the FAA Commissioner to stop them ASAP.

We will see...

 

[Jim Logajan]

A link to the story is probably redundant or unwanted in these kinds of threads, but I always aspired to be a rabble-rouser:

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/...A-tells-CBP-Commissioner-to-end-GA-stops.aspx

 

[Jim Logajan]

The smell of freedom nauseates Homeland Security.

Not that sinister, IMHO, but the end result of pragmatics:

Freedom is one of just many obstructions to getting their job done with the least amount of effort. Freedom curtailed or denied is optimum. This rule is universally true for all human entities, public and private. Freedom of human actions other than one's own adds difficulties to everyone's life. Hence, freedom has billions of enemies and, on a rare day, billions of friends.