God I feel lucky!
I fly a Bizjet all over Asia, in and out of Muslim and Communist Countries all the time and the only difference since 911 is that I get asked "Are you American?" all the time now. No I am not!
The only piece of insanity I've seen recently is the 'responsible' Govt body(Military) for the airfield I operate from wanted to build a fence around our airfield INSIDE the hangers etc, with NO GATES!! <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> <img src="eek.gif" border="0"> None of us mind a fence but surely the hangers and buildings can form part of the fence? Well they agreed to a compromise......they're going to put gates in the fence in front of hangers etc which we can call up to be opened....FOR FCKS SAKE!!!!
I believe sanity will prevail in the end?
This does not stop me being enfuriated by what is going on in the US!
IT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH to simply say "keep calm and let it run it's course".
If you do then the same mindless morons who come up with this **** will come up with more of the same in the future.
Isn't it about time the intelligent peoples of the (free) world started demanding some accountability from the elected officials?
When this sort of thing is happening to the one group of professionals who pose NO THREAT (if properly vetted by the airline) you HAVE to say "NO THIS IS REDICULOUS, WE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT!!!"
The prison system in any western country is unable to keep drugs and weapons out with strip searchers and body cavity checks!
You or I(aircrew) can go through a similar search and it will have NOT THE SLIGHTEST IMPACT ON SAFETY/SECURITY!!!!!!!!
Some wars just have to be fought and this is one! Your/our professional dignity, human rights and basic common sense demand it!!!
The people responsible for this sort of LUNACY CANNOT be allowed to retain positions of power in a free society. If they do then we might as well give up and let the west be taken over by the very people we are supposed to be trying to stop.
RANT OVER!!!(for now)
Chuck <img src="mad.gif" border="0">