The head of the Senate homeland security committee, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), said on Thursday that he plans to investigate how a Florida man was able to fly a gyrocopter through restricted airspace and land on the U.S. Capitol lawn.
Johnson released a statement saying that the Wednesday incident demonstrated that “the risk to America and Americans is ever present” and that he planned to demand answers from agencies in charge of security.
“I am deeply concerned that someone has the ability to fly for over an hour through the most restricted airspace in our country, past the White House, and land on the lawn of the Capitol,” Johnson said. “Mr. Hughes has been arrested and charged under the Transportation Act. I am investigating this incident and I am requesting a full accounting by all federal organizations entrusted with securing the United States from this and similar events. While Mr. Hughes’ guilt or innocence must still be determined by the courts, the apparent details serve as a reminder that the risk to America and Americans is ever present.”
The gyrocopter was flown by 61-year-old Doug Hughes, a mailman from Ruskin, Fla., who was attempting to hand-deliver letters asking members of Congress to act on campaign finance reform.
Let me see…he was flying a gyrocopter…which means he was flying well below the radar…which means that unless people looked up at the noise, which probably got drowned out thanks to DC traffic, they didn’t see him until he landed.
$10 says the results of his investigation will conclude that IT IS ALL OBAMA’S FAULT!!!
Interesting. Does this mean that Doug Hughes now qualifies as one of Ron Johnson’s patented “Victims of Government”?
At least this is more productive than trying to sue the government for daring to offer health insurance benefits to Ron Johnson’s government employees. Wisconsin is in such great hands!
(Help us Tammy Baldwin, you’re our only hope.)
What he calls a “risk to America” is the prospect of genuine campaign finance reform.
From untrammeled proliferation of hand guns and semiautomatic rifles and self serving politicians like you who couldn’t find their ass with a flashlight in each hand. Gyrocopters…not so much.