Posted on 06/18/2002 9:25:37 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
On a recent United Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., Capt. David Miller stepped from the cockpit to speak to his passengers, who included Tribune reporter Jeff Zeleny. Here is what the captain said.
"I am the captain for your flight to Washington, D.C. I am back in the cabin to talk to you before we leave, rather than from the cockpit. I think under the events of the last year or so, it's more [effective] for me to make my announcement from this vantage point rather than from the front.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
No, that's not true. I only subject myself to the airport police state when I have no other choice.
I pretty much did as well.
Had to make one emergency family-related flight this year, but I do not anticipate doing it again for a long, long time. The security goons separated me from my keys while they took me aside and felt my crotch and waved magic wands and performed all sorts of ju-ju over me. By the time they let me go I had forgotten all about my keys, and didn't think of them again until the very second the plane left the ground.
And airport security personnel are oh-so-concerned about reuiniting you with possessions that they separated you from. </sarcasm>
The oh-so-courteous police state in the sky. And the passengers applauded? What kind of sheep in humanoid form are grazing in this country?
Even if I have to fly in an extreme emergency -- and those, where you have NO choice, are damned few -- I will not, under any circumstances, fly with the bootlickers of the State at United or American Airlines.
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