One can argue that since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, airline and airport security have been improved significantly. It is also clear that "Homeland" security funds are not being spent in the most logical way.
For example, the Ticonderoga, NY airport is getting fenced in to the tune of $800,000 funded by homeland security funds. One reason for the fencing is to keep local drag racers off the runway. But maybe they are worried that terrorists might take over the old fort in Ticonderoga and wage war on the local populace.
Really, it's no joke. When will the government address the security of chemical factories, nuclear power plants and shipping ports? How about spending the money where security is really needed?
People in the North Country constantly whine about high taxes. Where do they think the $800,000 is coming from. But tax money is good if it's being spent in your area. Otherwise, it's just pork.
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While I can in no way defend spending money on a fence around a small (municipal?) airport as opposed to more worthy sites, couldn't a plane potentially fly out of the Ticonderoga airport and then crash into something important ountside of the local area?
An airport fence makes more sense to me than some of the cockamamie things that are getting funding - aren't there carnivals, roadside attractions, etc. getting these funds as well? I really can't see how those would be used by terrorist (aside from maybe dissemenating the toxic food that gets served at those places).
You can't defend a placing a fence around a small municipal airport but it makes sense to you anyway?
So were you against it before you were for it?
I never said I was for it. I said I can understand it.
Easy to be smug in complete anonymity, isn't it?
A few years ago, right after 9/11, they put a fence around the Warren County airport and according to the Glens Falls Post Star, the fence was planned before the 9/11 attacks.
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