What Do They Know?
Wed March 19th, 2003 12:45 MSTIn response to the Orange terrorism threat level, the FAA has issued flight restrictions in four areas. Two are obvious: New York and the Washington D.C. Air Defense Identification Zone. The other two are Disneyland and Disneyworld.
Not San Francisco or Chicago or Los Angeles, but Disney theme parks only?
One wonders…
While I am surprised that neither LA nor Chicago have yet to get a no fly zone designation, I can’t think of what Islamic militants might find to be a larger symbol of American excess and commercialism than the self-proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth (well, maybe Vegas…).
And with a wife and daughter currently visiting one of those two designated locations, I’m not complaining that they’ve received them.
If I recall correctly, in the last few days, there was a news story somewhere saying that business was way down at Disney’s parks.
Sorry I can’t be more specific.
But it makes quite a bit of sense that Disney could seek some assistance in a bid to make people feel safer visiting their parks.
I’m scheduled to travel to a Disney convention center in Orlando this weekend for a conference that starts Monday.
I’ll tell ya, a specific FAA restriction does nothing to make me feel safer. Indeed, it has quite to opposite effect, causing me to even reconsider the trip.
Disney has been after flight restrictions over their property for a long time now. They don’t like the banner towers advertising for companies outside their control.
With flight restrictions over major league baseball, NFL football, NASCAR and NCAA Div 1 football, it seems that private companies now control the United States airspace.
I find it most interesting that San Francisco, CA was not listed. Can it be that possibly, just possibly, the “bad guys” do not consider this area to be a valuable target?
Rick
it seems that the media find kids more important than everyone else in this country.