So I was browsing my AvFlash newsletter earlier and noticed this snippet:

Later today, President Bush will head for Camp David, and the standard Prohibited Area there will be expanded to a 10-nm radius for tonight and tomorrow. Don't even think about messing with this one: AOPA says federal security officials told them this is a "highly sensitive" visit, and enforcement actions will be "severe in the extreme" -- meaning that military patrol aircraft are authorized to shoot down violators. Most operations are banned within a 5-nm radius, with restrictions on flights up to 10nm out. All aircraft departing from private airports/air fields within that outer ring must be on a heading away from the center of the prohibited airspace, the NOTAM says

These TFRs (Temporary Flight Restrictions) are popping up all over the place and sometimes with very little warning ever since 9/11. Eventually someone is going to get their wires crossed and end up in the wrong place at the wrong time and some innocent people will die. And not the big airplanes that are actually a threat but the little ones that are of no threat what-so-ever. The big guys stay pretty well informed and have redundant systems and such but a little guy up enjoying the scenery with his family and pick the wrong day to have electrical trouble, get lost and wander into one of these zones and poof.

For some reason, the little general aviation (GA) airplanes have born the brunt of suspicion since 9/11 even though the evidence suggests that GA is an insignificant threat. Remember the little airplane that crashed into the White House? Or the teenager who flew into the building in Florida? The building in Florida was damaged, but not the White House. How many people died in those "attacks"? Two. The pilots of each airplane. Don't be fooled by the hyperbole on television about those "dangerous" little airplanes. And finally, consider the photo below. Honestly, how dangerous can something that can actually get hung up in power lines be? I say we surround the president with power lines. Problem solved.