Posted on 05/22/2006 7:23:04 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Check out this Vent VIDEO.
Bureaucratic IDIOCY has made the air marshal's stick out like a sore thumb. Yoo-Hoo! You want the air marshals to BLEND IN with the passengers which means wearing slob clothing like the rest of us.
Most police and security wear uniforms. Air marshals do not as a bluff because they aren't on most flights. Having a government worker sit all day and mostly do nothing, and give them a loaded gun, is asking for it. Never in the history of aviation has a pilot shot an unarmed passenger in the back as they were running away. An air marshal did.
...unless, of course, they're undercover, where anonymity is essential...no brainer there huh!?! I suppose that according to you, our soldiers should wear day-glow vests, instead of camo, that the shoplifting security officers should wear the blue light special lights on their heads, that our covert OPS guys should wear sandwich signs declaring their operations, and that our UC detectives should wear raid jackets with flashing neon lights across their backs declaring that their UNDERCOVER!!
"Never in the history of aviation has a pilot shot an unarmed passenger in the back as they were running away"
Never before in history of aviation has an extremist jihadist terrorist flown a loaded commercial passenger jet into the world trade towers (twice!), or the pentagon, killing thousands.
Reeses, your posts on this thread are merely an "anit-government employee" rant and not very well thought out. If you cannot understand the basic underlying reasons for UC deployment, then you are posting out of ignorance.
Respectfully...
The reason police go undercover is so a crime will occur and they can catch them in the act. If uniformed police sit in a marked car at a corner known for drug sales they won't catch anybody. In the case of hijacking and homicide missions, we don't want the crime to occur. The reason the air marshals are not in uniform is to create a bluff. It is not undercover work. I would rather all uniformed pilots be wearing side arms so the crime does not occur. It's also a lot cheaper than taxpayers funding $1,000/day in total costs per air marshal to sit there and do very little. The air marshal program is mostly to please the left who want only government workers to have guns.
You don't sound naive, you just sound like a snob.
You just described me.
A disturbing number of the men were also unshaven.
Yup! That's also me.
You forgot to mention that I also wrote "too" when I should have written "to" in the first clause of my second sentence.
However, your comment is symptomatic of a deeper problem at Free Republic: too many unpleasant comments from people who don't take the time to read & think about what is posted. I would have thought the humor in what I had written was clear from the last sentence.
So few people dress in business suits these days that they really stand out from the crowd. Whenever I see somebody in a full suit on an airplane, I'm thinking he's either a salesman or a government worker. Just about everybody else in business has the business casual look (dockers, alligator shirts) and the rest of the passengers just look like, well, slobs.
I don't even see the purpose of wearing a business suit on a plane even if you are going to a business meeting. All that is going to happen on the plane is that you are going to wrinkle the suit. Better to just wear a T-Shirt and shorts on the flight and be comfortable while keeping your suit and pants in a bag. Then when the plane lands, change to the suit in the restroom at the airport.
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