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July 31st, 2004

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Chugo: duty/loyalty)
Saturday, July 31st, 2004 08:36 pm

John Hay Rabb's Second Amendment column in this month's Guns & Ammo magazine is titled Cuffed in the Cockpit, and contains some interesting revelations you won't hear on the news about the Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) armed-pilot program.  I do not know of an online copy of this article.  I am therefore going to reproduce here not the complete article, but several of the most relevant large chunks of it, with occasional comments, and hope in good faith that my quoting falls under "fair use" guidelines.

The long story )

The short story:  The TSA has hated the very idea of the FFDO program from the start, and has evidently been doing its level best to sabotage and scuttle it.  There's no guarantee that the Cockpit Security Act will pass; but if it does, the FFDO program will be implemented the way it was originally intended to be, and there won't be a goddamned thing the TSA can do about it except cry into their beer.