RE: Am I missing something here?
OH MY GOD!! THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO TAKE AWAY MY BASIC FREEDOMS, STUPID GOVERNMENT, i MAY WAKE UP TOMORROW AND BE ARRESTED FOR LEAVING MY HOUSE, PARANOIA, OUTRAGE, STUPID GOVERNMENT!!!
I mean, what does the government do for me besides provide a military, public education, a police force, firemen, roads, an infrastructure, civil rights, etc. etc. etc. I forgot that I need to mistrust the government for providing these luxuries and all I have to do is pay some taxes.
How dare they want to regulate things flying through the air, HOW DARE THEY!!! It's bad enough that I can't land a Cessna 172 in my back yard and that I have to have a license to fly it. Now they want to take away my right to fly my 46% Ultimate through my neighbor's picture window or fly my 200 mph F-16 over a schoolyard of children at recess. How dare they say I can't fly my pylon racing plane over a full scale airport and through the windshield of a Bonanza. I'm an average person with no common sense, after all, and I should be able to do whatever the hell I want to, when I want to.
That stupid Farmer Ted guy thinks that it's OK for the government to maybe limit certain kinds of RC flying to certain areas. He doesn't know anything, they're going to steal my cat next, I'm 165 years old and have seen it all before. Regulations only lead to more regulations which take my basic freedoms away. This is why cars a more polluting and more dangerous than they've ever been, and why everyone used to be able to vote and now only white males can, and I think it goes on and on, or do I have that backwards?
I say we take back the universe. I want to steal an F-22 and go supersonic over a residential area at 100 feet AGL, I want to drive an 8000 HP top fuel dragster down the freeway at 325 MPH, the government says I can't do these things, these are my rights! I should be able to mount a a rocket launcher to my house to thwart my enemies. Damn government!
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If you want to live your lives with this kind of fear and paranoia, be my guest. I refuse to.
If people were even slightly more intelligent than they are and had a LOT more common sense, we wouldn't need so many government regulations, but they aren't, they don't, and we do.
If you think I'm selfish for not thinking some minor regulations pertaining to certain types of RC planes isn't a bad idea, I think that you're selfish for thinking you should be able to do whatever the hell you want unchecked.
And, by the way, read the damn document...I believe that any type of RC plane would be allowed at an 'approved' RC airport under the eye of an organization like the AMA. Larger and faster planes would only be banned outside of these types of areas...and who actually flies their giant scale or jet planes outside of an AMA club as it is?
I'm done, go spread your sensationalized fear somewhere else.