According to this op-ed on the decision to keep the pilots unarmed, the FAA guy who made the call used to be at BATF under Clinton. You know, the agency who roasted kids in Waco because they didn't want Koresh to have weapons?

With so much inertia in the bureaucracy, it almost makes you wonder what the point is of having elections. I guess it might help if the White House acted like they give a damn.

If elections are between only the jackasses and the pachyderms, you're right, there will never be a change in the bureacracy. That's why I've been voting Libertarian the past couple of elections. (That's also why I've been so bloody frustrated that Browne has gone off the deep end since 9/11. How Browne has been handling himself is PRECISELY how possible Libertarian voters can - and will - be turned off.) But you never know what can happen if people get sufficiently frustrated, even angry. Hope springs eternal...

I'm glad someone pointed out John McGaw's history. Rather than getting fired for some of the stuff his outfits did, instead he got promoted to headquarters. This latest pronouncement is par for the course.

It is truly astonishing the level animosity some people have to guns. It is better in these people's minds to shoot down an entire plane, killing 300 people?, than to risk a pilot shooting one.

BTW, in response to Mr. Lemley, I switched my party affiliation to Republican specifically because of Harry Browne's comments. I'm now small "L", not big "L".

I have to admit, I just spent about 20 minutes reading harrybrowne.org and worldnetdaily, and I just don't see what's so horrible about him.

Oops... that should be Magaw.

the 'agency that roasted kids in Waco...' was the parents, guardians and other putative protectors of those kids that occupied the Koresh compound.

Just in the interest of preserving an accurate blog.

John casey