Don't Fly Over King Cheney's Bunker

The Cheney Administration is making sure NOBODY flies over that undisclosed location. From the AP:

The Federal Aviation Administration has imposed flight restrictions over Dick Cheney's new Maryland home, angering private pilots who say they can't fly overhead even when the vice president isn't around.

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association spokesman Chris Dancy said Tuesday the FAA only imposes restrictions at Cheney's Jackson Hole, Wyo., home when he's there. He questioned the need to have the restrictions in place at all times over a home in Maryland, which has much more air traffic.

So anyone coming within one nautical mile of Lord Cheney's residence (in St. Michaels, MD, about 30 miles from DC) risks being escorted away by fighter jets or shot down.

Hey, I know, can we actually inspect the cargo containers that go into every commercial aircraft in this country instead of placing fighter jets on personal standby protecting the Dark Sith Lord's undisclosed location at all times???

Heck, he apparently doesn't even live there:

The vice president's official residence is on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington, part of the region covered by airspace restrictions that were put in place after the Sept. 11 attacks.

That's a new one to me. The Creature of the Night lives in the Naval Observatory. It must be a condo in a military-industrial complex.

Here's my favorite part of the story:

FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said the St. Michaels' restriction is classified as temporary, though she acknowledged there is no date for it to be lifted.

Permanently temporary. Like our presence in Iraq.

When some uninformed private plane gets plastered all over CNN for two hours because he veered too close to an EMPTY HOUSE, can we then say this is completely ridiculous? Or can we do so now, and save some taxpayer money?