Yet more airport insanity

[Pat K]

Read it and weep.

http://lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html

[Isophix]

Un-freaking-real...

Makes me want to take a toy pistol in my holster, when I fly up there to NH tomorrow.

[Bill St. Clair]

Note the date on that story: December of 2002. Still disgusting, but not new.

[KBCraig]

Residents of Martha's Vineyard are being trapped on the island so the Obamas can enjoy a vacation there. If they don't have a passport, they can't leave.

http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?22616

Of particular concern are the restrictions which will apply to aircraft flying to and from the Island.

These are likely to completely shut down operations at Katama Airfield, and also impose stringent conditions on non-commercial flights out of the main airport.

One pilot who regularly commutes from his Edgartown home, Bill Brine, said he spent 90 minutes this week filling out forms, and expected to spend hours more clearing security while leaving and returning to the Island.

"They asked for my social security number, my pilot's certificate number and my passport number," he said.

"So you need a passport to leave Martha's Vineyard. Just to be on the manifest for a private airplane leaving the Vineyard."

And the flight manifest had to record similar details for any passengers

"And if one doesn't have a passport number it shuts you out of the system."

He complained that the security and search procedures were the same as those required to fly in or out of the country.

"So they're actually bringing us to the level of a foreign country," he said.