Legal, Political and Ethical Dimensions
Week 2 Assignment
Submission Details: http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&d=TSA-2008-0021-1155
Proposal: (copy and paste links in url) http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-23685.pdf
Part One: State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). How will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? Provide the URL to the website where the regulation change proposal is located. (Check your URL to be sure it takes the reader to the actual regulation).
Part Two: Describe the proposal/change
When searching for recent regulation changes, A regulation that caught my eye, due to a recent travel experience was one proposed by TSA (DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Transportation Security Administration) As we all are aware of because of the continuous media coverage, transportation has become a very easy target for certain terrorist groups to perform their horrific acts. No matter what one might say, I do agree that waiting 4 hours at an airport trying to get on the flight (which I have) is better than suffering due to some security breech, but I do not believe that the size of the aircraft increases risk of treat. In brief, the TSA is proposing that Larger Private and business owned Aircrafts go through higher levels of security, and same scrutiny as commercial aircrafts, as they may pose threat due to personal private travel. As expected by the many comments, the people that mainly oppose to this proposal are the pilots of the aircraft, as they feel they would never allow danger to their country by flying/transporting unsolicited passengers, ...