Had she captured the FBI's top Most Wanted all by herself? Had she single-handedly figured out how to stop murder in Baltimore without the use of an actual police force?
No. She had just announced the indictments of a bunch of executives in FIFA, the international lawless cartel that controls, of all things, soccer. She had been pursuing this case for years before becoming Holder 2.0, and was able to get a bunch of international soccer executives arrested on some kind of corruption charges.
Now look, I'm not going to denigrate these indictments by saying that it's just soccer, which no American really cares about for 46 months out of every 48, or that it's really hard to tell who in America was actually hurt by any of this. I will say "Hoorah", but I'll say it quietly. Hoorah.
What I will say far more loudly is this -- the FAA needs to be investigated one heck of a lot more than a bunch of soccer executives. "What", I hear you say, "not the FAA!"
Well, yes, boys and girls. Because apparently the FAA has succumbed to the race-baiters and has instituted something called a "Biographical Questionnaire", which applicants to become air-traffic controllers must pass in order to be considered. The "BQ" has questions on it such as a multiple-choice one, asking how many sports you competed in during high school (I'm not kidding).
How, exactly, do you "pass"? Are five sports too many? Is zero unacceptable? The FAA will not say. What is scandalous, however, is that up until last year, when the BQ superseded all prior qualifying methods, the FAA had qualified its applicants using its Collegiate Training Initiative, or "CTI". The CTI students could study ATC at FAA-accredited schools, and receive the specific training that is needed to be a controller -- training that cost them $30,000 or more. They had to pass an eight-hour test of specific skills thereafter to qualify for placement.
The FAA had built up a list of qualifying students from the CTI program available to be hired. But apparently, the members of that list didn't show the level of (don't laugh or cry here) racial diversity necessary to ensure that the skies over our country were safe. So on December 30, 2013, a day that will live in infamy, the FAA discarded the scores and qualifications of the 3,000 or so on the list, who had graduated from CTI programs and passed the long exam.
Now, those who had passed were back at Square One, competing as the report noted, with anyone who walked in off the street asking for a job. You had only to speak English, have a high school diploma and pass the BQ. So what, one asks, would prompt the FAA, who is charged with protecting our skies, to discard a qualification requiring extensive training and proof of skills, and replace it with a vague personality exam asking how many sports you played?
That would be the American Race Industry.
That industry is exemplified, in this case, by something called the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, or NBCFAE. Not all of its members are black, but color is less important than the fact that they complained, and that led to the FAA having to do something called a "barrier study", determining that the CTI program wasn't generating an adequate number of minority applicants.
What do you do to fix that? Baby ... bathwater ... yep, you guessed it. You throw out the results of the preparation that 3,000 legitimate candidates did and, in most cases, paid dearly for, and you throw open the doors to anyone with a high school diploma, ability to speak English and who passes the BQ.
But is that corrupt enough to engage the Justice Department? Well, it is, at a minimum, stupid, short-sighted, and puts American air passengers at risk. That should be looked into by someone.
This, however, is corrupt: The NBCFAE supplied "correct" answers to the BQ to selected candidates -- the answers it knew were the ones the FAA would be looking for. Doubt it? Do you doubt the FAA, of all agencies, could be that corrupt? Well, try this from the previously referenced article:
Moranda Reilly, a white female applicant (but an NBCFAE member), stated that Shelton Snow, an FAA employee, air-traffic controller and, oh yeah, president of the local NBCFAE chapter, sent her and other ATC applicants a recorded message on February 12, 2014 as they were preparing to take the BQ. She then shared the recording with Fox Business Network in the course of the research for their article.
The recording was as follows:
“I know each of you are [sic] eager, very eager to apply for this job vacancy announcement and trust after tonight you will be able to do so… there is some valuable pieces [sic] of information that I have taken a screen shot of and I am going to send that to you via email. Trust and believe it will be something you will appreciate to the utmost. Keep in mind we are trying to maximize your opportunities… I am going to send it out to each of you and as you progress through the stages refer to those images so you will know which icons you should select… I am about 99 point 99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question in order to get through the first phase.
“People have been getting rejection notices and those rejection notices have been coming after about 24 to 36 hours after clicking Submit and I want to avoid that, so what we are going to do is we are going to take our time and we’re going to make sure that everything we click on, and you going [sic] to even have to go back to your resume and make some changes because one of our members and I have caught something and we want to go back and want to fine tune those details…”
Moranda Reilly and others are now seeking standing to sue the FAA and have filed a complaint with the FAA's Equal Opportunity Office. But guess what -- the EEO staff members to which the cases are assigned have been members of the same NBCFAE that is the cause of the problem in the first place!
I could go on. But we are far, far past the point where the Justice Department -- at least one that thinks that a scandal that puts air passengers in jeopardy is more important than nailing a bunch of soccer cartel executives -- should be all over this. This is corrupt and, worse, it is an amazingly problematic situation when race, not merit, is putting people in the seats of the control towers in American airports protecting American passengers and crews.
Loretta Lynch has a real place to point her finger. If there is not a Justice Department probe into this starting, shoot, this afternoon, every newspaper, every TV station and every air passenger in the USA should be in front of the Department of Justice headquarters asking why the $%^&* not.
Really, would you want to be up in the air, knowing that an ATC course and a high grade for competence in air-traffic control is clearly less important than how many sports the controller played in high school? Warms my heart. I'd rather stay home than get in a plane.
Come on, Loretta, do your real job.
Copyright 2015 by Robert Sutton
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