Originally Posted by
gofast
Well, to begin with...US airspace is sovereign and one of the few legitimate functions of government is to protect it's citizens, including controlling what goes on in it's airspace. Efforts to secure the flight deck of passenger aircraft transiting US airspace is not colonialism run a muck, it is the keystone to insuring that hijackers don't get access to the flight deck.
That is known as a false dichotomy.
Originally Posted by
gofast
With all the inane government policies we have to put up with, how can you possibly have a problem with such a rational restriction?
Because government has a predilection to expand unless that expansion is resisted.