Going Postal?

He's lucky as shit. Dumb move.

surprised more people aren't going postal.

Like to have that little copter, cool as hell!

if everybody was flying around in them.

from the same kind of people that we allow to have driver's licenses

in the likes of The Jetsons or other future predictions of travel. I am most happy that we don't have flying cars

The Reichwing is rejoicing at every failed or successful act of stochastic terrorism, because it bolsters their followers into believing they will get away with an overthrow of the federal government. These things for the most part, are totally the result of media propaganda at many levels. Our first amendment has been twisted into something it was never meant for.

'No sane person would do what I'm doing' ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3040509/Panic-Washington-D-C-helicopter-lands-Capitol-lawn.html#ixzz3XTCgpp9Q


Um ... OK, Doug ...

he says he told them, but I'm pretty sure they would have stopped him long before he took off.

Mr. Hughes doesn't sound nearly this heroic, though. Just 'libertarian' stupid.

He was a 19 year old German kid from Hamburg when piloted a single engine plane from Finland nonstop to Moscow and landed right next to Red Square. A lot of Soviet military lost their jobs over that. The Germans thought it was funny. Gorbachev did not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust

...who keeps delivering my neighbor's mail to my house.

He committed an act of civil disobedience and did not hide that he was planning to do it, even from authorities. It's not an act I would have tried. However, I'm finding rich that here on DU where we have called for civil disobedience over the past 15 years over various serious issues, we are mocking someone who committed one to call attention to the very real cancer eating away our elections and government. He took a risk and undoubtedly will suffer punishment for it. Not a keyboard warrior to be sure.

He does have convictions and he told others in advance. I wouldn't do it but he does earn some respect.

that I smile a little every time I see the video. But it was dangerous.

There to run him over or shoot him?? Lucky guy.

And they held their fire on the chance that he wasn't.

...as if the copter landed just outside of firing range. This sounds like authorities covering their asses and looking to thwart future incursions, more than this pilot was seconds away from being shot out of the sky. I imagine restraint was the order of the day, given that they say they knew who and what was actually occurring.

Tough talk after the facts!