Originally Posted by
Cholula
. And as far as I know, no US citizen has been involved in terrorist activities involving air travel.
Andrew Joseph Stack III
suicide pilot who crashed his plane into an office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Feb. 18, 2010
Charles Bishop
flew a single-engine plane into the 42-story Bank of America Plaza building in downtown Tampa on January 5, 2002
Frank Eugene Corder
crashed a stolen Cessna 150 onto the South Lawn of the White House early on September 12, 1994, apparently trying to hit the building
Originally Posted by
star_world
US citizens are arguably a higher risk because they are already afforded far more protections by the government when it comes to surveillance, monitoring, searches, etc. compared with non-US nationals so less is known about what they are doing.
Despite growing public opinion in the US legally admitted foreign nationals are afforded the same legal protections as any American citizen. ( at least in theory)
If you would like to argue against this consider the implications if American citizens were not affored the same protecitons as the citizens of a country that they were visiting.