Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired wrote:

If I read what you wrote correctly you feel questions about of criminal
behaviour don't belong in a medical exam. I say they do for the simple
reason they are evaluating you physically and mentally. When you start
going to see a shrink or counselor that is one thing that will come up
when you fill out your initial paperwork. It is important to know when
evaluating the patient.


The problem I have with it are several, but in this particular case, can
we not quote double jeopardy. The judge sentences you to prison for 10
years. Once you've served your time, why do you then get hit with
arbitrary questions that further restrict your rights. I could see it
if the sentence for ******* was 10 years and never fly a plane again,
but I don't think that judges usually do that. At what point can a man
fade away into society and once again become a citizen?

It's reprehensible that the government will give a sentence, and then
keep heaping on more judgements after the debt is paid.

While I don't agree with some of the logic used in FAA medical
determinations I do fully understand that if you want to fly, and the
agency that will allow you to do that has deemed certain questions must
be asked you have to honestly answer the questions. If it weeds out a
few nut cases then it serves the purpose. Let's face it, it's the only
game in town.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

There's the rub, Dan. 'the agency that will allow you' You see certain
inalienable rights as endowed by Congress. I see them endowed by my
creator. 'The agency' doesn't allow; they forbid. I already had the
right. They've taken it away, unless I follow their set of arbitrary
rules, and they use a lot of guns to do it. Make no mistake about it,
'the agency' is a group of people using force to exert their will on
another group of people (person in this case). But such is a democracy
that we just have to make a big enough stink about it to get the rules
changed.

Here's an interesting question. If it was SO easy to check the guy's
background...so easy that it was obvious to everybody that he would be
caught... then why ask? Would it be just to have something else for
applicant's to trip over? Just to see if you can make them lie?
There's a maxim in politics that if you make enough 'good' laws then
everyone becomes a criminal. At that point you can get rid of whoever
you like. Defacto totalitarianism, with a facade of legitimacy.

Here's another one. Why put it on the medical? Could it be to hide
responsibility of collecting the information? Is it to use the
legitimacy of doctors to hide the illegitamcy of the question? But
then, doesn't it make doctors defacto policemen?

I view the 'agency that will allow' you to fly and their
'determinations' as a group of people with personal agendas, one of
which is to increase their own power and importance. They are not my
parents, and I do not need them to pamper me and protect me from myself.
I play the game, because I know they have lots of guns and I've seen
enough movies to want to avoid the inside of jail cells. But just
because I go along doesn't mean that it's not all bull****e.