Are boats really that different from cars? I don’t remember Mohammed Atta and crew having any trouble with drivers’ licenses, so I don’t think boat licenses are going to be any more help. Boats are already registered through the DMV.
There’s no question that I can drive right up to the Sears Tower or any other major building with my car. I could even get pretty close to a nuclear power plant or other major facility.
I’m going to take a wild guess and say transponders for every boat is unlikely to be a popular proposal and almost certainly wouldn’t get through the boating lobby. And in this case, quite frankly, I’d be on their side.
All a lawbreaker has to do is cut a set of wires or remove a battery, or toss the thing overboard, and there’s nothing that can be done to stop him.
Why not just keep doing what we have been doing, successfully? We have a pretty good record now of detecting and turning in people who are members of these conspiracies. If a boat is involved, it’s no different from a car or plane.
The resources that would go to any boat licensing or transponder programme are going to be a lot better spent looking directly for the real criminals instead of inconveniencing millions for such a dubious payoff.
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Your overall point is very solid, but a passerby can't get very close to a nuclear power plant at all. There are multiple perimeters getting anywhere within 1/4 mile of an building used for operations (reactor building, turbine room, cooling towers) is not really possible for a passerby at any plants that I have seen.
There is absolutely no way to protect yourself from the Islamic monsters except to catch them “personally” before they can get that far. You can build a wall around the whole of the USA. What’s the sense if they’re already here???