{"id":2528,"date":"2004-05-25T16:56:28","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T06:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/25\/alaskans-against-capps-ii\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:46:45","slug":"alaskans-against-capps-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/25\/alaskans-against-capps-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaskans against CAPPS II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10980,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/search?q=cache:ILYg-8_kFbUJ:www.anchorage.net\\\/library\\\/FactSheet03.pdf+alaska+private+airplanes+per+capita&amp;hl=en&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/search?q=cache:ILYg-8_kFbUJ:www.anchorage.net\\\/library\\\/FactSheet03.pdf%20alaska%20private%20airplanes%20per%20capita&amp;gws_rd=ssl&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10981,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.alaskafreedom.com\\\/akn\\\/home.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251212133529\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.alaskafreedom.com\\\/akn\\\/home.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 11:02:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 11:02:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10982,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/wcitymike\\\/111420.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/wcitymike\\\/111420.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/05\/graphics\/stopcappsii.gif\" height=\"112\" width=\"112\" alt=\"Stop CAPPS II button\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alaska can be a pretty interesting place to travel around in. Once you get out of the &#8220;big cities&#8221; (&#8220;big&#8221; being used in a fairly loose sense here) of Anchorage and Fairbanks, there are only a certain small number of places you can go by car. When you&#8217;re trying to get around a state as big as Alaska (more than twice the size of Texas) and most of the towns aren&#8217;t accessible by road, unless you&#8217;re planning on training for the Iditarod, your best bet is flying.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, aviation plays a <em>huge<\/em> part in Alaskan transportation, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=cache:ILYg-8_kFbUJ:www.anchorage.net\/library\/FactSheet03.pdf+alaska+private+airplanes+per+capita&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Anchorage Fact Sheet '03\">six times more pilots per capita and 14 times as many airplanes per capita as the rest of the U.S<\/a>. That&#8217;s a lot of airplanes, and a lot of flights.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s also a lot of Alaskans that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskafreedom.com\/akn\/home.html\" title=\"Alaska Freedom\">aren&#8217;t very happy about the proposed flight restrictions of CAPPS II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Washington DC bureaucrats think we need their permission before we can get on a plane.<\/p>\n<p>  We think they&#8217;re wrong. They don&#8217;t understand that up here in Alaska, we use airplanes the way you use taxis.<\/p>\n<p>  And that&#8217;s why we, a group of Alaskans, are turning to the US District Court for help.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/wcitymike\/111420.html\" title=\"Mike's Link Blog: Tue, May 25th, 2004, 12:29pm\">Mike<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Rasta Rave&#8221; by Aar from the album <em>Zoo Rave 1<\/em> (1992, 5:32).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC bureaucrats think we need their permission before we can get on a plane. We think they&#8217;re wrong. They don&#8217;t understand that up here in Alaska, we use airplanes the way you use taxis. And that&#8217;s why we, a group of Alaskans, are turning to the US District Court for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}