09Aug04

TSA, at your service:

An LEO friend submitted to TSA the obvious suggestion that sworn police officers be allowed to carry on all domestic, commercial flights. He point ed out that training and certification needed to carry on an airplane could easily

be made available, and the policy would put good, armed men and women aboar d many more flights than are currently being covered by federal sky martials. All of this would make another successful domestic skyjacking a good deal less likely.

Their "response"

"You can now obtain information about submitting your idea or produc t via our website at ... and click on ... ad nauseum"

Loosely translated:

"We don't care. We don't have to."

Bureaucracies are all alike!

/John