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There you go again. Sightseers can purchase a ticket on an authorized tourist plane with known pilots and security. Another fallacious argument. I put forward restrictions on aircraft in the airspace...you twist to be a restriction on tourists seeing the Statue of Liberty. Twisty, but not logic.

H'm, first you put it completely off limits, with a Phalanx system guarding it, now you say it's OK to conduct tourist flights. Is the Phalanx supposed to shoot them out of the sky? How is the Phalanx operator supposed to know which are the bad guys and which are the good guys with 100% accuracy? And you have the audacity to say that my logic is twisted? LOL

This might make sense if the liberty we were talking about was you freedom to speak here or your freedom of religion or something actually critical. But the freedom we are talking about here is your ability to fly around the Statue of Liberty for fun. You are right now restricted from landing a helicopter for fun on the White House lawn. I do not consider that a huge imposition leading to the destruction of our glorious nation. You might characterize it that way, but it wouldn't be so.

So you are saying my freedom to travel freely is less important than my freedom to travel to church on Sunday? Or to travel to a protest rally? Yes sir, Comrade!

"How is the Phalanx operator supposed to know which are the bad guys and which are the good guys with 100% accuracy? "

Excellent point ... since the system would have to be on automatic, the tour plane operater would have to contact the statue defence to turn it off ... and then really, really hope that it gets done by that National Guardsman who was dragged in for a tour of sitting there.

Wouldn't it be exciting knowing that the guns were tracking you on your flight, ready to blast you should wind shear drop you a hundred feet or so ?

H'm, first you put it completely off limits, with a Phalanx system guarding it, now you say it's OK to conduct tourist flights. Is the Phalanx supposed to shoot them out of the sky? How is the Phalanx operator supposed to know which are the bad guys and which are the good guys with 100% accuracy? And you have the audacity to say that my logic is twisted? LOL

Did you know that Aircraft Carriers have Phalanx? Did you know that US aircraft actually land on those without getting shot down? Did you know that people who run air defense systems can tell the difference between authorized aircraft and non-authorized? Are you looking to use every fallacy in your arguments?

So you are saying my freedom to travel freely is less important than my freedom to travel to church on Sunday? Or to travel to a protest rally? Yes sir, Comrade!

Can you see your own fallacies? Did you know that you can't travel in a helicopter to the White House lawn right now? Your "freedom to travel" is being violated! I think you should insist on defending this very important right to land a helicopter on the White House lawn. Please try it today.