[Swiftwater Gazette] 2nd amendment rights next??

Wed Mar 18 12:41:18 EDT 2009

Rik,

Where are all the adults in the Congress?  Maybe if enough pressure is
put on the Blue Dogs in the House and the moderate Dems in the Senate
this train wreck can be avoided - then there's 2010 if that's not too
late.

Pick any article at random about The One in any MSM media outlet and
read the comments.  The new "Red Guard" is out in force way beyond
their actual numbers.  Hell, we even had an admitted Obama troll on
the R-22 list for goodness sake.  Go to any college campus and offer
an alternative viewpoint via your exercise of "free speech". There's a
lot of Kool-Aid drinkers and Acorn is getting billions more in
funding.  We're in deep shit. The 'Civilian Defense Corps' hasn't even
cranked-up yet.

Fan and I drove straight home from Orlando yesterday (12 hours) and
entertained ourselves by comparing the "progress" of Obamaland and the
Cultural Revolution.  Our conclusion was that this new breed of
zealots is giving communism a bad name.  The proper term for where
we're heading is Totalitarianism. We also revisited the Hong Kong
option, which is a real alternative for us because of our employer.
Just when I think we're overreacting, I read the next day's news and
realize just how screwed we as a nation really are.

I'm off to the hangar to tinker with my airplane while it is still
legal.  My friends on the Bo list in the Los Angeles area are shutdown
today. Never in my 35 years of flying have I witnessed such
heavy-handed control of airspace except for the five days of lock-down
immediately after 9/11.  Now I know what it was like for the Chinese
when the Great Helmsman's train passed through town.

Brad

2009/3/18 Eric Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com>:
> Brad,
>
> "buy your ammo, buy it NOW!"
>
> Yep, been workin' on that. I imagine, someday "they'll" come lookin' for it.
> When they do, I expect they better bring some help. My mood is getting
> uglier by the day.
>
> Honestly, will there be enough left of this country after four years of
> Obama's "leadership" to salvage??? The amount of damage he has been able to
> accomplish in only 2 months is mind boggling. What will it look like after
> four years??
>
> Rik
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Rik,
>>
>> Believe it or not (of course you can believe it) I'm not allowed by
>> law to comment on the subject (that's left over from the Bush years).
>> I am allowed to comment on other gun issues, however. Aren't you
>> worried about the Secret Service packing heat?  What if they
>> accidentally discharged a weapon and hurt an innocent bystander? And
>> what about the military?  Isn't it a bit discomforting to know that
>> all those soldiers are carrying weapons?  Wouldn't it be much safer to
>> arm them with flowers and copies of "The Audacity of Hope"?
>>
>> "Pigs ass"?  Better not buy that pigs ass from a farmer's market, that
>> too will soon be regulated by the stormtroopers from the new Food
>> Safety Administration. And BTW, how is the farmer supposed to kill the
>> pig anyway, wait for its natural death?
>>
>> Hello Stalin, hello Mao, buy your ammo, buy it NOW!
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> 2009/3/18 Eric Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com>:
>> > Brad,
>> >
>> > Read this, this morning. Seems like that could affect you.
>> >
>> > Oh but he's not gonna' take away our guns..... yeah, in a pigs ass ....
>> >
>> > Transparency in gov't??? Is that what you call this??
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/17/guns-on-a-plane-obama-secretly-ends-program-that-l/
>> >
>> > EDITORIAL: Guns on a plane
>> >
>> > Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns
>> >
>> > Tuesday, March 17, 2009
>> >
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>> >
>> > After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed
>> > to
>> > carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would
>> > unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of
>> > aircraft and rammed them into buildings.
>> >
>> > Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program,
>> > risking
>> > public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.
>> >
>> > The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from
>> > the
>> > pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage
>> > in
>> > field inspections of pilots.
>> >
>> > This looks like completely unnecessary harassment of the pilots. The
>> > 12,000
>> > Federal Flight Deck Officers, the pilots who have been approved to carry
>> > guns, are reported to have the best behavior of any federal law
>> > enforcement
>> > agency. There are no cases where any of them has improperly brandished
>> > or
>> > used a gun. There are just a few cases where officers have improperly
>> > used
>> > their IDs.
>> >
>> > Fewer than one percent of the officers have any administrative actions
>> > brought against them and, we are told, virtually all of those cases “are
>> > trumped up.”
>> >
>> > Take a case against one flight officer who had visited the Virginia
>> > Department of Motor Vehicles within the last few weeks. While there, the
>> > pilot noticed that federal law enforcement officers can, with the
>> > approval
>> > of a superior, obtain a license plate that cannot be traced, a key
>> > safety
>> > feature for law enforcement personnel. So the pilot asked if, as a
>> > member of
>> > the federal program, he was eligible. The DMV staffer checked and said
>> > “no.”
>> > The next day administrative actions were brought against the pilot for
>> > “misrepresenting himself.” These are the kinds of cases that President
>> > Obama
>> > wants to investigate.
>> >
>> > Since Mr. Obama's election, pilots have told us that the approval
>> > process
>> > for letting pilots carry guns on planes slowed significantly. Last week
>> > the
>> > problem went from bad to worse. Federal Flight Deck Officers - the
>> > pilots
>> > who have been approved to carry guns - indicate that the approval
>> > process
>> > has stalled out.
>> >
>> > Pilots cannot openly speak about the changing policies for fear of
>> > retaliation from the Transportation Security Administration. Pilots who
>> > act
>> > in any way that causes a “loss of confidence” in the armed pilot program
>> > risk criminal prosecution as well as their removal from the program.
>> > Despite
>> > these threats, pilots in the Federal Flight Deck Officers program have
>> > raised real concerns in multiple interviews.
>> >
>> > Arming pilots after Sept. 11 was nothing new. Until the early 1960s,
>> > American commercial passenger pilots on any flight carrying U.S. mail
>> > were
>> > required to carry handguns. Indeed, U.S. pilots were still allowed to
>> > carry
>> > guns until as recently as 1987. There are no records that any of these
>> > pilots (either military or commercial) ever causing any significant
>> > problems.
>> >
>> > Screening of airplane passengers is hardly perfect. While armed marshals
>> > are
>> > helpful, the program covers less than 3 percent of the flights out of
>> > Washington D.C.'s three airports and even fewer across the country. Sky
>> > marshals are costly and quit more often than other law-enforcement
>> > officers.
>> >
>> > Armed pilots are a cost-effective backup layer of security. Terrorists
>> > can
>> > only enter the cockpit through one narrow entrance, and armed pilots
>> > have
>> > some time to prepare themselves as hijackers penetrate the strengthened
>> > cockpit doors. With pilots, we have people who are willing to take on
>> > the
>> > burden of protecting the planes for free. About 70 percent of the pilots
>> > at
>> > major American carriers have military backgrounds.
>> >
>> > Frankly, as a matter of pure politics, we cannot understand what the
>> > administration is thinking. Nearly 40 House Democrats are in districts
>> > were
>> > the NRA is more popular than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We can't find
>> > any
>> > independent poll in which the public is demanding that pilots disarm.
>> > Why
>> > does this move make sense?
>> >
>> > Only anti-gun extremists and terrorist recruits are worried about armed
>> > pilots. So why is the Obama administration catering to this tiny lobby
>> > at
>> > the expense of public safety?
>> >
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