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Plane spotters allege harassment at Connecticut airport
The plane spotters went to the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut to complain after repeatedly being thrown off Bradley International Airport property and told by police their activities are illegal. (www.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Smoki, thanks for the reply. Anymore the USA is just a country of sheep. I cant' figure out what mystical power Obama has over his voters but we have seen in just a few years what he is doing to our country. I am 67 and not in the best of health but I fight this nonsense any way I can. I wont be around for a lot of years but it tears me apart to see what my kids and grandkids have to look forward to and live thru.
WE aren't a country of sheep. Our politicians, on the other hand, are cowards and generally asshats. Voting in different politicians won't change that fact. Taking power away from them is the only solution. We have long asked for more and more from our government, and this mess is what we have gotten. Time to ask for less and less from the asshats.
This should come as no surprise. We live in a country now where the Constitution is ignored and dismissed, where law enforcement officials at all levels make up laws on the spot to suit their personal preferences, where false reports and misdeeds by the ruling elites are the norm, where Americans are arrested and detained on trumped up charges that have no basis in law, etc. We have a U.S. President who has made it quite clear that he has no intention of conforming to the Constitution by going around Congress whenever they don't do his bidding, that he has a pen and phone to make law whenever and wherever the mood strikes him while members of his political party in Congress encourage and applaud him for it. In sum we no longer live in a democratic republic under the rule of law. Instead we live in a dictatorship, an observation which many scoff at but only because it has gradually sneaked up on them without realizing it or they are simply in denial for the sake of political correctness.
Police are (or should be) trained to recognize people that don't belong near these airports. I understand people are nervous about these things but me and my friends know this airport very well and I would not hesitate to call in anything I did not think belong there.
We in the railfan community have been experiencing similar harassment when photographing trains from public areas, such as Chicago Metra stations and public roadways bordering railroad yards. It is interesting to note that in every case that has actually gone to court, the railfans have won.
Airbus tweeted the following about 2 hours ago:
"Have you #planespotted the #Beluga? Tag your tweets #BelugaBD and we'll share our favourites!"
The manufacturers appreciate the attention, while America turns hostile to planespotting.