SEARCHES: Part of threat to freedom

Although I was an airline pilot, I refuse to fly commercially today. It’s not so much the slipshod maintenance or the poorly trained pilots as the outrageous, unlawful searches. Not long ago I was responsible for the security of nuclear weapons, but now, to board a plane, I must submit to a personal search by someone who may have a criminal record? I think not! These searches are not about safety and security. They are to get us accustomed to government intrusion into every facet of our lives.

 The evidence is plain. Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, Trans World 800, 9/11- Uncle Scam was there, generating fear so that we would accept a “war on terror.” It’s really a war on our freedoms, moving toward Socialism and the New World Order. Will Americans wake up in time?

BRUCE McKAY

Hayden