We're the Only Ones Flying the Friendly Skies Enough

Since 9/11, more than three dozen federal air marshals have been charged with crimes, and hundreds more have been accused of misconduct, an investigation by ProPublica, a non-profit journalism organization, has found. Cases range from drunken driving and domestic violence to aiding a human-trafficking ring and trying to smuggle explosives from Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, the rest of us get strip-searched and have bottles of lotion confiscated, and they are the "Only Ones" who can be trusted with guns.

Right.

"We can reassure the public that these dedicated professionals go out there every day and put their lives on the line to make sure that everyone is safe," Bray says. "I don't want them to be tarred by … a few allegations from a few years ago."

Keep braying, weasel-worder.

"We're getting the cream of the crop," then-TSA spokesman David Steigman told reporters. "The people who are going into the air marshal program are the best of the best."

Let's see, 3-4,000 air marshals, "753 documented cases of misconduct by air marshals over 20 months..."

Yeah, just a few "bad apples" there.

I've never abused a position to smuggle drugs into the country. I've never lured young boys to my room and abused them. I've never tried to hire a hit on my wife.

I don't drink and drive, I don't beat my family, I don't take bribes, commit bank fraud, hire escorts, pad expense accounts, pull guns in parking disputes, leave guns in lavatories, discharge guns negligently, get into bar fights and fire guns, deal in stolen property...

And the government says these thugs are more trustworthy than you and I are.

And their solution, of course, is to throw more money at the problem, form Quality Assurance teams...as if those of us who live our lives responsibly and with respect for not infringing on our fellow man require any oversight or special training beyond our own sense of "do unto others," which is all any human being really needs--any human being who's not a sociopath...

I'm getting sick and damned tired of these ethically retarded amoral parasites treating responsible adults like they're the children. And that these abuses all happened on a republican administration's watch angers me even more.

[Via Les K]