1) Checking and Monitoring style of passengers like in the old Soviet Union– creepy.

2)Cheaply maintained planes and no real choices of air carriers.

3) Outdated technology. I want antigravity not jets.

4)Airport security causing me airport insecurity. Nobody can wave goodbye to anyone anymore.

5)The cost of tickets.

6)Germs of fellow passengers.

7)Recycled air in plane.

8)Air Traffic Controllers working long shifts with little relief.. not enough employees to do the job right.

9)911 and the lack of Truth about why NORAD didn’t scramble jets. Bad pictures left in my mind.

10)Insurance scams and put options: I don’t want to be in a plane that somebody is going to make money off of it going down.

That is why I never want to fly again. Flying makes me nervous.

Tim H. – To see the land of Beethoven and Bach and to hear Waltraud Meier sing Isolde is a sufficient to board Chattel Airlines. No apologies necessary.

I hate it that I have to fly, given the current conditions.

But I’m willing to submit to it for a greater good.

As an aside, from a technological perspective the reaction has been toward improvements in and further reliance on video teleconferencing. I’m not sure whether that favors your vision of what agrarianism should look like.

Furthermore, you may find an additional reason not to fly with the implementation of backscatter X-ray technology in (I think) Pheonix (coming as soon as possible to all major airports, I’m guessing).
-Turretinfan

It occurs to me, that if Bush’s Hundred Years War is carried on by both Parties of Washington during my lifetime, that it is possible I may never see the Golden State again. That is a shame. A minor shame; but a shame.

Great! In fact I can even picture in my mind a cheesy government sponsored t.v. commercial, satiated with all the latest t.v. commercial magic, where a black or Latino woman in full uniform’s punch line is “That is how I want to remember my time at the airport—with pumpkin patch cautions and poinsettia martial order.” To spice it up a bit, in pure propaganda mode, have everyone at the airport look like they are just floating on cloud nine, as happy and serene as a child warmly snuggled against his mothers bosom. Present the T.S.A’s as a mix between Ronald McDonald and John Wayne, strong, assertive and just as happy and pleasant as can be, with a grin from ear to ear, putting their arm around your shoulder and helping you out as Ronald welcomes you to the golden arches paradise. Make sure that you have a T.S.A of every race, and a couple in wheel chairs, why not toss some in at the doors, greeting you like they do at Wal-Mart. And of course, one must not forget to make the commercial with deep blues and bright reds and well, white whites – make it appear as though going to the airport is deeply patriotic. As the commercial winds to a close, and you have the image of a child giving the thumbs up to the Chinese T.S.A person, with one leg, the narrator say’s, maybe even with an American flag waving in the background, “That is how I want to remember my time at the airport—with pumpkin patch cautions and poinsettia martial order.”

Monitoring, redirecting, or constraining transportation systems; and

Closing public and government facilities.

Since highways and are part of the transportation system and stores, offices and factories are public facilities, citizens may not be allowed to drive their cars or work in their cubicles during a red alert. And, if children are attending school at the time (whether government or private), parents may be prohibited from bringing them home. In other words, code red means martial law.

This all may seem unpleasant, but if you consider the alternative — terrorists robbing of us our freedoms — it is well worth it. I believe it was William Wallace who said (or was it Bill O’Reilly?), “Giving up a little freedom today is that best way to ensure greater freedom tomorrow.”