Reward for the Liar
Lie and cheat for political purposes to keep your job and keep America afraid and get a REWARD! Yes, that's right. "Overstate" (aka tell bald faced lies to draw attention to yourself and your "cause") and the Shrub might reward you with a promotion. How in the HELL are the American people supposed to react to this kind of blatant bullshit? Is it possibly because mainstream news organizations aren't picking up on this because it's ONLY general aviation after all? Regardless of your political leanings, watching our Commander in Chief promote someone for blowing smoke up our proverbial butts should be unnerving to the point of removing him from office.
From Avweb Newswire
Just a week after telling a Congressional panel that maybe GA is not such a big security threat after all -- remarks that elicited much glee from AOPA, as AVweb reported last Monday -- TSA chief James Loy was nominated by President Bush to fill the No. 2 slot in the Department of Homeland Security. If approved by the Senate, Loy will take over as Tom Ridge's deputy, filling a vacancy created when Gordon England became Secretary of the Navy this month. EAA applauded the nomination. "Admiral Loy has come to adopt a view of general aviation that is generally balanced, fair, and grounded in the need to preserve the American citizen's right to freedom of movement," EAA said in a news release on Thursday. "Most importantly, [Loy] set forth for the congressional record what EAA and others have believed all along; that the perceived security threat posed by general aviation has been consistently overstated in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks." Loy took over the agency in July 2002. TSA Deputy Administrator Steve McHale will serve as acting chief until a successor for Loy is named.