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How easy it is to get on the gov't's s*** list
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klehner
Mar 28, 05 6:34
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http://www.nytimes.com/...onal/28pilot.html?hp

Describes a pilot who is being refused permission to further his pilot career because, while working at a flight school, he picked up Moussaoui from the airport and drove him to the school (M. was later kicked out for not making progress). Everyone and his brother vouches for the guy; a businessman wanted to send him for jet training so he could fly his corporate jet, but he was refused. Pretty sad.
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slowguy
Mar 28, 05 8:09
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Not a NY Times registered member, so Icouldn't read the story. Do you have it in another format?
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haris
Mar 28, 05 8:21
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ttocsmi
Mar 28, 05 8:26
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Obviously, the pilot should have "chosen life," since that's the government's current mantra. Nevermind what Terri Schivo wanted, the government knows better. Nevermind what the pilot says he knew at the time, the government knows better. Big Brother always knows better.

Nevermind me. I'm going back to work.
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Barrio
Mar 28, 05 10:15
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A lot easier than it is to get off the govt's s*** list.
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ChiTownJack
Mar 28, 05 19:07
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totally off topic, but in regards to this sentence in the article:

In 2003, he said, a businessman in Norman, D. Wayne Trousdale, managing partner of Cedar Creek Lumber, offered to send him for jet training so he could pilot the company's $1.5 million Citation. As a foreigner, Mr. Merida had to fill out 30-page application for the Flight Training Candidate Checks Program.

Aren't there any US citizen pilots in Norman, OK that he could hire? - Isn't jet training outrageously expensive?
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big kahuna
Mar 28, 05 19:33
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Ken, I predict that you've probably made the guv'mint's shit list quite a few times ;-)

Tony
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klehner
Mar 29, 05 2:32
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[reply]Ken, I predict that you've probably made the guv'mint's shit list quite a few times ;-)

Tony[/reply]

We'll find out soon enough: I'm in for a security clearance...
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AmyCO
Mar 29, 05 7:54
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My brother, who is a poet and one of the nicest most peaceful guys you could ever meet, applied for a job that required government clearance. It was refused. He doesn't know why and he's not really the type to FOIA the hell out of them. He figures it had to do with the fact that he hangs out with a fairly diverse crowd (you know -- those wacky poet types).
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