Annals of the Security State, Glider Pilot Edition

Annals of the Security State, Glider Pilot Edition:

• The pilot was doing something entirely legal;
• He was doing it in an area that was in no way marked as being illegal;
• He was doing it in a tiny craft designed to lift very little more than its own and the pilot's weight;
• He was doing it roughly two miles from a small airport where light-plane traffic was routine.

Nonetheless he was arrested, handcuffed, held for 24 hours, and interrogated as a national-security suspect. For a while local "security" officials considered shooting the glider down. I could go on, but the AOPA story is full of piquant details.**