New York, NY—With the capping
off of the symbolic tower that replaced the World Trade Center I thought I’d
show you the latest TSA folly. It’s in
the picture above.
No matter how you analyze the
September 11, 2001 terror attack on America it was the result of FAA’s fear of
armed pilots and off duty cops. Then
there was the cultural weakness of Americans in general.
First I blame the new
American Nanny Culture that seemed to dictate that American plane passengers must sit and wait for authorities to deal with crime instead of resorting to
self-help for survival. Many passengers
actually thought they were really doing something helpful by calling 911 from
their doomed aircraft.
Politicians honored the
“heroic” actions of the brave young men on Flight 93. Actually they too were brainwashed by the
Nanny Culture because their actions only came after the cockpit was breached.
They did nothing until after they took votes among themselves on whether to
resist the hijackers.
When I gathered the driver’s
license information on the 9/11 terrorists for the news media I found something
unsettling. They were all little
men! They’re average height and weight was
5’5” and 140 pounds! They were no bigger
than most American women!
History should have made it
clear to the passengers that no Muslim terrorist event ever ended peacefully. For those doomed passengers it was
either they fight for their life or die.
Sadly we know what their choice was.
Aside from forfeiting their
own lives by cowering in their seats they also sacrificed the lives of the
people inside the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The politicians and media
simply never once uttered a word about the pre-programed mental conditioning or
cowardice of those dead passengers.
Since 9/11 we’ve spent
hundreds of billions on Security Theater and the TSA. As of today the only efforts at terrorism
were not stopped by the TSA but by ordinary passengers.
Fast-forward to today and all
that’s happened is the airlines have had to fight monumental battles avoiding
bankruptcy, pilot shortages and TSA nonsense.
Our government created the
Federal Flight Deck Officer’s program to arm a few pilots that specifically volunteered
for the program. That plan consisted of
re-vetting the backgrounds and mental health of pilots deemed worthy of trust
to handle a firearm.
I guess a gun in the mind of
brain-dead bureaucrats is somehow more dangerous than a passenger and fuel loaded
commercial jet.
They trained the FFDO’s like
every other armed federal officer. However unlike cops or federal officers they
FFDOs are not trusted or permitted to carry firearms outside of the locked
cockpit of their airplane!
Initially the clowns over at
the TSA designed a holster with a padlock that rested directly and dangerously on
the trigger of the FFDO’s gun. At least
one accidental discharge in a cockpit aboard a US Airways jet resulted from
that faulty design.
Next that holster was retired
and FFDO’s were forced to carry the gun in a heavy locked vault style box that
was cumbersome and punishing. Needless
to say many FFDO’s quit the program.
The current joke is the
container pictured at the top of this story.
It has a padlock but this time it is away from the trigger. It makes the gun inaccessible and useless to
the FFDO until he’s locked in the cockpit.
However the new case is an
improvement from the boxes but the FFDO's must purchase them with their own funds if they wish to discard the heavy boxes.
The FFDO’s should be carrying
firearms like cops and other federal officers.
Their intensive training should benefit passengers from the moment they
enter airports until they leave them.
Every commercial pilot should
be trained and armed or be forced to retire if they refuse that duty.
I want to add the sad truth
that there were two off-duty trained and sworn cops on two of the four planes
involved in the 9/11 attack. They too
perished. No pilot was allowed to carry
a firearm back then.
Our politicians have created
a Constitutional mess by creating the lawless albatross called the TSA. It serves little purpose but to allow
otherwise unemployable people rob, molest and annoy passengers giving some of
them a false sense of security.
I will leave you with two
simple questions. Had those 9/11 pilots
and off duty cops been armed would 3,000 people still have perished? Would we have suffered billions in property
damage and business interruption? I
think the answer is obvious.
