Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: Clyde, Look who wants to take your Gun away

[Red5hilser (Red5hilser]

Hey cLyDe: Not to worry, my friend. The person behind this must be Ted  
Williams, (er) ... or maybe even Ty Cobb!
 
Still yer pal, Shitbox Bubba
 
 
In a message dated 3/19/2009 8:19:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Forza355 [at] verizon.net writes:

Obama  Wants to Disarm U.S. Pilots
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:19 PM

By:  David A. Patten 




The Obama  administration is taking steps quietly to shut down the program 
that qualifies  commercial airline pilots to carry firearms in jetliner 
cockpits 
in order to  ward off another 9/11-type attack. 

The administration recently  diverted $2 million from a program to train and 
certify pilots to carry  firearms safely while on duty. Instead, it is using 
the money to hire  additional field inspectors to help discipline pilots who 
step out of line,  according to a report in Tuesday's Washington Times. 

A Times editorial  condemned the Obama administration's action, calling it 
"completely  unnecessary harassment of the pilots." 

Since Obama took office, the  approval process for certifying pilots to carry 
firearms has ground to a halt,  the newspaper reports. Pilots are afraid to 
speak out about the  behind-the-scenes maneuverings, for fear of retaliation, 
according to the  newspaper. No cases have been reported in which pilots have 
brandished a  weapon inappropriately or otherwise abused their eligibility to 
carry  firearms. 

About 12,000 pilots have been authorized to carry handguns  while flying 
aircraft as part of the Federal Flight Deck Officers Program.  Congress 
authorized 
the program in a 310-to-113 vote following the 9/11  attacks to help prevent 
terrorists from turning jetliners into flying bombs  that could be used to 
attack key sites like the White House, the Pentagon, or  Capitol Hill. 

Paul Valone, a Second Amendment advocate who directs  Grass Roots North 
Carolina (GRNC.org), is calling for citizens to contract  their congressional 
representatives to protest the administration's anti-gun  priorities. 

Pilots are already required to pay for their own room and  board during 
training, and use paid leave for the time they're off the job.  Every six 
months, 
the program requires them to be requalified for firearm use.  

Valone writes on Examiner.com: "While bureaucrats . . . may have  attempted 
to hamstring the program with burdensome requirements, training  instructors 
and the Federal Air Marshals who now oversee the program routinely  thank the 
FFDOs for their professionalism and dedication in protecting the  nation's air 
commerce against terrorism." 

Valone says the Obama  administration is "dismantling yet another layer of 
defense against terrorism  and defying the will of the American people." 

Since coming to power,  the Obama administration has undertaken a series of 
moves that signal a major  de-emphasis of programs enacted to keep America's 
homeland safe from terrorist  attack: 


a.. Obama's choice for U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder,  labeled enhanced 
interrogation techniques as outright "torture" during his  Senate confirmation 
hearings. 


a.. Obama banned waterboarding and  ordered CIA interrogators to abide by 
U.S. Army Field Manual regulations.  


a.. He selected Clinton-era political operative Leon Panetta to  serve as his 
CIA director. Panetta's qualifications to run the agency have  been 
questioned widely. 


a.. Obama announced that he would shut  down the Guantanamo Bay detention 
facility in Cuba within one year, raising  the prospect of hardened terrorists 
entering the U.S. criminal justice system,  or worse, being released to rejoin 
al-Qaida. 


a.. He indicated the  U.S. defense budget would be sharply reduced. 


a.. He has sent a  letter to Russian leaders, apparently offering to back off 
on the ballistic  missile defense system that would protect Europe from Iran 
and North Korea.  

These and other Obama administration moves recently prompted former  vice 
president Dick Cheney to charge that Obama is returning to the  Clinton-era 
view 
of terrorism as a law enforcement issue. 

"Now he's  made some choices that in my mind raise the risk to the American 
people of  another attack," Cheney said of Obama on CNN's "State of the Union" 
program.  

The Washington Times points out that about 70 percent of airline  pilots have 
military backgrounds. With airport screening less than 100 percent  
effective, it states, armed pilots provide a second layer of defense.  

"Only anti-gun extremists and terrorist recruits are worried about  armed 
pilots," the newspaper editorial says.  












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