Got a response from Robert F. Selig:

Thanks for taking the time to express your concerns. I agree that "this isn't my America" either. But, without going into the details (I simply can't), security at airports continues to intensify and the knowledge about the level of surveillance being conducted by those who threaten our country, that has been made public over the past few months, has required a significant level of increased vigilance. It is my hope that while we restrict someone's freedom to take a picture of an airplane, we are also limiting the capability to plan the destruction of our airport.

In the end, we are all simply responding to a situation that we didn't create.
Accordingly we need to remember that our friends in the Middle East are the enemy not the Airport Police who are risking their lives every day to ensure our freedom of travel for us and our children.

Bob Selig

Robert F. Selig, AAE
Executive Director
Capital Region Airport Authority
4100 Capital City Blvd.
Lansing, MIM- 48906
Phone:M- 517-886-3711
Fax:M- M- M- M- M- 517-321-6197
Email:M- [email protected]


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I'm favorably impressed to receive a real reply within a short period of time. Of course he's spouting the same nonsense that we hear from the other freedom-haters in our country: that keeping people from looking at things which are plainly in public view is somehow an anti-terrorism activity. And he doesn't address the main question I asked him, which is: Why did the airport police LIE to Robert Ball and invent a non-existent federal regulation, and does Robert Selig condone that kind of lie?