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Feds Deny Obama Will Take Guns Away from Pilots

Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:37 AM
By: Jim Meyers
Federal officials and the airline pilots union are denying a report that the Obama administration is seeking to end a program that trains pilots to carry guns in jetliner cockpits.

An editorial published in the Washington Times on Tuesday stated that “President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.”

It will be a very cold day in hell when I believe anything a few un-named Feds or union officials say, I take that back, I don’t give a big fat FUCK if they are named, I still will not believe them. I spent way too long as an elected union official to ever take what they say as truth.

But Sterling Payne, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), told Fox News of the editorial: “It’s inaccurate. This program continues to grow. TSA continues to recruit and put new FFDOs on planes, and we continue to train them and do recurring training.”

The Airlines Pilots Association International, representing more than 52,000 pilots in the U.S. and Canada, issued a statement saying the Times story “couldn’t be further from the truth.”

That is double speak for “Oops, somebody screwed up and the truth is out about what we want to do. It’s ASS covering time, go into denial mode!!!” That very dangerous dip shit Eric Holder or whatever the fuck his name is, a gun grabber in full grabber mode all the time. I am in total disbelief of the people The One has gathered together for his administration.

Union representatives “met with TSA executives and were told in no uncertain terms that TSA embraces the FFDO program, that there are no plans to reduce or restrict its growth, and that in fact the agency fully intends to grow and expand the program,” according to the union statement.

“Government representatives acknowledged that the program needs additional funding to achieve these goals, and that they are actively seeking same.”

Obama has brought Wall Street to the brink of extinction. He is working on fucking up the best health care system in the world. (No hospital ER in this country can turn someone away just because they have no money.) If you don’t think that is true, pay a visit to your local ER. People are using them as clinics.

Next Janet Napolitano Secretary of Homeland Security has it on fast track to get an amnesty that Obama wants, passed.. They keep claiming that there are about twelve million illegals here, I guess they are just counting California. Thirty to forty million would be a lot closer to the truth. After that, it will be fast track to citizenship, that is what we really need, forty million more Democrats.  Conservatives in this country are so fucked.

Found this at NewsMax:

Obama Wants to Disarm U.S. Pilots

This bunch of thugs and fools from Chicago and the Dems in Congress are hell bent on making us as vulnerable to another 9/11 type of attack. It is bad enough that they are going to bring those killers from Gitmo here, put them on trial in our court system and if they are found not guilty by way of any technical or other reason, release them in the United States. What a bunch of idiots. Do they not realize that these people want to kill all of us?

Now they are going to go after the airline pilots who are certified to carry a firearm in the cockpit of commercial flights.

From NewsMax:

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.

The translation of “field inspectors” Is simple, they will be there to nitpick and harass the gun totin’ pilots. I’m sure the Air Marshals are not far behind. Let’s face it, none of these elitist pigs and freaks ever fly on commercial flights. Those days are gone. I can just dream of being in the security line with Babbs Boxer or the Swimmer.

Obama is proving once again, that he and his cabal don’t give a rats ass about the safety and security of the United States and the American People. The NewsMax article continues:

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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

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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