Maybe I'm Amazed....NOT
As I sit here watching these bomb techs live on CNN "disrupting" a suspicious package in proximity to the Capitol, I have to wonder what the HELL these people are thinking? A Cessna 150 flies close to the Capitol and the Secret Service yells "run for your lives" and evacuates every living creature. This, an aircraft that MAY POSSIBLY MAYBE but not LIKELY have some kind of explosive device or other naughty stuff.
Here, they have a clear and present suspicious package. The device is sitting there in a car. And they evacuate NOBODY. What's wrong with this picture?
Here's what's wrong. It is FAR more likely for a ground based vehicle to be carrying damaging devices to the Capitol or the White House. Yet this laxidazical attitude towards that possibility is epitomized by this known package, yet nobody really seems to care very much. Everyone is speaking in calm tones, nobody is freaked out. The other cases with supposed bombs, and Mr. Farmer Tractor Boy were similarly played out. This, despite the fact that it is far easier to cause lots of difficulty with a car or truck than with an aircraft.
Pilots in the DC area, on the other hand, are treated as potential terrorists from the time they punch their code into the airport gate. Our every move is tracked by governmental employees of one type or another from the point our airplanes begin taxiing across the airport.
Flee before my Piper Arrow III. Flee like a baby cheetah at dinner time. Flee like Ron Brown from responsibility. Flee!
But don't worry about Chevy Impala rental cars with suspicous packages in them.... They're not a "real" problem.