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1st Amendment and TFRs

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are implemented for safety reasons, but in any industry, rules to some extent compromise freedoms. Restrictions have been imposed in terms of ones ability to board a plane, or even  to enter a stadium. Since the September 11, 2001 disaster, there have been a great many restrictions in cities around the nation and while people are searched when attending  rock concerts, for example, airports are perhaps the areas most scrutinized. After all, on September 11th, in an unprecedented move, all flight in the U.S. stopped for a time after  four planes were purposefully downed by terrorists. Airport security was in question. Obviously, there had been errors in judgment, or errors in the security system, at airports throughout the nation.  Four planes were hijacked within minutes of each other. Of course, the hijackers did not use guns nor were they averse to taking their own lives, a principle that seems  to throw out typical protocol on how hijackers are treated and will be treated in the future. Indeed, new rules at airports will not allow even plastic knives on board.  In the midst of the crisis, several people of Middle Eastern origin were erroneously detained and there was scant attention to racial profiling as the dog days of September  lingered. It was simply a non-issue. As weeks and years pass, airport security will once again be reevaluated. There is a price to pay for total security, and even then,  no one can be completely safe. There has been some talk of separating the cockpit from the rest of the plane, building impenetrable doors, arming pilots with guns, requiring armed  marshals on every flight and so forth. Despite all of these measures, airport security that involves searches and seizures must continue to find potential hijackers or bombers as well as