Run In With Mr. Edwards

Jay,

Next time show up dressed like a middle east citizen. They would
probably leave you alone... because we all know it's not NICE or PROPER
to profile....

Sharing your disgust,

BJ

Jay Honeck wrote:

They should have shot the lying, treasonous war
criminal a long time ago. He betrayed his country, he betrayed everyone


who


served in Vietnam, he met with enemy leaders, he deliberately killed


babies


and then justified by claiming in Congressional testimony that everyone


else


was doing it



While I share some of your distaste for Mr. Kerry, CJ, I think you've taken
your point "a bit" too far. Kerry is (or, at least, was) an honorable man,
and I wish him the best in the upcoming election.

I don't want this to become a "bash Kerry" or "trash Bush" thread. What we,
as pilots, need, is to discuss intelligent, constructive ways to influence
our government officials so that ridiculous crap like this doesn't happen to
more and more pilots.

I'm all for logical, sensible security strategies for our presidential
candidates, but what they did to my family was just stupid. We weren't a
threat, and we couldn't have become a threat. If they THOUGHT we were
potential threats, they could have escorted us to our plane, and searched
it. They could have had the FBO guys tow my plane to the OTHER FBO on the
OTHER side of the field, and we could have departed from there. (Those
planes were coming and going freely throughout this episode.)

They had a myriad of options, all of which they chose to ignore. The only
thing that satisfied them was my complete immobility, which is no different
than treating me like a suspected criminal.

And I resent it.