Homeland Security dangerous

There are times when one just chokes on the idiocy of rules and regulations and this is one of those times for me. My career has spanned 61 years from that day I first soloed in 1948 until today.  Thirty-six of those years I was employed as a pilot for United Airlines. I loved every minute I spent on the job and enjoyed the people and places I have seen, but that has all changed.

I was appalled at a news report stating that passengers on a Continental Airlines express aircraft landed at an alternate airport due to inclement weather and all the passengers including children were forced to remain on that tube of tin for 13 hours because Homeland Security people were not present to clear the disembarkation. I just could not believe the story but unfortunately it was true. This exercise in stupidity could only have been perpetrated by rules set by the hand of a bureaucrat. People trapped in these conditions in the heat of summer is unconscionable. One would not leave a pet in a cage in the sun, but airline travelers is another story altogether. Wouldn’t you like to see the director of Homeland Security placed in that position? You won’t of course but you are likely to see humans treated like animals again in the future in the name of “security”.

Every aspect of air travel today is hindered by the actions of this cadre of high flying SS troopers. You are checked, embarrassed and delayed by this superfluous invasion by an army of government employees that served little to no purpose. It has caused airlines to incur delays and run costs beyond belief as well. You are battered in two ways.

We are led to believe that it is for our safety while experts outside government in security have advised our storm troopers that we are over-killing for no good reason. An old saying that says, “if one will give up freedom for security he deserves neither”, is so true and that is exactly what is happening and will continue to happen in the future.

If you think that Homeland Security is only at airports, think again. Your life is being checked, traced, photographed and recorded in the name of security and I don’t think you are one iota safer because of it, nevertheless you are handing your freedoms to some appointed individual who is likely a failure from the private sector.

Folks, I think this is much more dangerous to our well being than we can imagine. I do know it has driven me from the skies. I have pass privileges that allow me inexpensive to free travel and I will not go to an airport to board a commercial flight for love nor money. I will not subject myself to the indiscretions of a functionary of Homeland Security when I can avoid it.

Are we sheep?  Are we going to voice our objections and take back our freedom, or are we going to kneel down and remain subjects of the King?