"No Military or feds at State Airports," Demands Libertarian Governor candidate

Peabody demanded that the governments immediately de-militarize all State of Hawaii operated airport security operations and the Honolulu Airport Lagoon Road access. "Now Honolulu Airport has a prison securrity type environment, and it is less safe now and more hassel. What happened to the friendly skies of Hawaii?" he said.

"The public knows that the National Guard presence and the federal baggage inspections don't make flying any safer, but it does increase the hassle trying to use the airports. And there has been a lot of abuse reported, as well as false alarm airport evaucations and horrendous schedule delays. I put the federal government on Notice that their unConstitutional overreaching into the affairs of the Sovereign State of Hawaii will no longer be tolerated. We must return Aloha to the friendly skies of Hawaii, support our Bill of Rights, and stop misusing our military and federal agents to investigate Americans who want to fly in American skies," said Peabody.

"The Posse Comitatus Act was passed to prohibit the use of military troops for civilian law enforcement. Civilian law enforcement and the military are completely different, with the Army geared toward destroying enemies of a different nationality, not policing innocent Americans around airports like suspects," Peabody explained.

"Militarized civil law enforcement is un-American. The use of military forces to seize civilians can expose civilian government to the threat of military rule, and leaves the protection of vital Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights in the hands of military who are not trained to uphold these rights. It may also chill the exercise of fundamental rights, such as the rights to speak freely and to protest government abuses," Peabody concluded in his demand to the authorities. "If I am elected governor, this militarization and federalization of Hawaii State Airports will definitely end," he promised.

It is my understanding that there are as many as 30 federal agencies that are creating paramilitary police organizations, and the ongoing DEA raids in the name of WOD are also signs of the developing Gestapo in USA. The Homeland Security Act will formalize the creation of the Gestapo in USA. Who Cares? What are you going do when they come for you?

Rev. Martin Niemoller, commenting on events in Germany 1933-1939 said: "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was left to speak up." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Niemoeller, July 1, 1937; arrested by the Third Reich George Peabody is the only candidate for governor to have announced his positions in opposition to the government-created airport hassles, and he is opposed to fluoridation of Hawaii's drinking water, and he wants to end personal income taxation and real property taxes by cutting Federal airport security Abuses reported Sheer idiocy: Rights violated; 0-tolerance; Security NOT improved.

Although the federal government has officially assumed responsibility for all airport security, experts say airport safety has not - and will not - improve because new measures are mostly for show. Worse, experts say, because of the way new airport security laws are written, unhappy passengers have little recourse to complain; airport security personnel have been given absolute authority, and any passenger-caused problems, no matter how petty or minor, could result in prison terms of up to 20 years. Though it came off largely unnoticed, the federal government Transportation Security Administration officially took over airport security from the airlines Feb. 17 to oversee a 30,000-strong force, and TSA will employ thousands of Federal Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs), as well as intelligence and support personnel."

But Charlie Cutshaw, a former army officer and firearms expert said that the new security measures - including the new security personnel, stationing of the National Guard in airports and random frisks and searches - "do little toward actual security but set the stage for an incipient police state by acclimatizing people to being body searched and detained for no real reason." He relayed a recent personal experience as an example: "I was recently denied air travel because I told the 'security' personnel that I resented their 'random' search as I was boarding the plane and that it added nothing to real security," he said. "I told the searcher that I resented this invasion of my privacy and that I was submitting only under protest. She [the screener] asked if I wanted to fly. I told her that I really didn't, but that I had no choice and thus was submitting only under protest. I had to go over to some seats to remove my shoes and when I did so, I tossed them over to the floor near the table where she was standing, as I didn't know what else to do with them.

"That was a bad mistake, because I was accused of throwing my shoes at her, despite that fact that when she told me afterwards that I had to place them on the table, I did so without protest," Cutshaw explained. "By this time, I was pretty hot, having been frisked previously because the zipper in my jacket set off the metal detector. But I never took it to a personal level. I never used profanity. I just told her very firmly that I truly resented this process. I did everything that she asked me to do, including unbuckling my belt. No matter. Once I had passed through and I was on the plane, the cops and the National Guard came to remove me from my Delta flight because I was a 'troublemaker' and made all the other passengers 'uncomfortable.'"

Cutshaw said he and the security personnel and troops "had a very interesting and genial professional conversation as we proceeded out of the terminal," but explained to them that their presence - and the process he and other passengers now must endure - "is sheer idiocy." "At any rate, the bottom line is that you must not protest when they strip you down at the airport," he said, because security personnel "have 'zero tolerance' for dissent."

Another Delta flier - a police captain who asked to remain anonymous - said he, too, was singled out by security for a random search to which he objected.

"I reckon the badge, captain's rank, and my comment - 'I have the highest-dollar lawyer in the state in my pocket, and my cousin is a former state Supreme Court justice, and they will take my case pro bono' - might have kept me from being thrown off the plane," he said.

Like Cutshaw, the police captain says his abusive treatment was justified in the same way: "The FAA says we have to do it." But do they have jurisdiction on State of Hawaii land? No!

The police captain told of a similar security experience that happened to a "white female" on his return trip.

"She had just been searched in the airport by a male, who reached through her blouse and felt her breasts while pulling her under-wire bra away from her body (the wire in the bra set off the detector)," the police captain said.

"After pulling her nearly off her feet to pull the bra away from her body, [the security officer] let it slam back into her body, pinching her breasts, somewhat painfully. When she asked for a supervisor, she was told she didn't have a complaint, that the FAA rulings allowed the men to search women," the captain said. "I begged her to hire a lawyer and sue their a--."

While most industry analysts agree that the attacks had much to do with those losses, they also believe that unnecessary airport hassles, overzealous security personnel and inappropriate searches will see the airlines continue to lose money as more people opt to travel by other means - or simply stay home. Some passengers have said they were afraid to complain because of fear they could be branded as troublesome by security personnel and either arrested or rejected.

TSA said that by going through the security checkpoint, you are agreeing to have your bags and your person searched and scanned. That's part of what you agree to when you fly. Now, you don't have to go through the security checkpoints, but then you don't get on the plane.

Cutshaw says pilots should be armed, and that the banning of pocket knives and nail clippers is pointless; the National Guard presence is a waste of the taxpayers' money and is no more than a 'feel good' measure for politicians." And, immediately eliminate anyone who gives the slightest hint of being on a power trip." When we fly we got no rights? That is BS! Read the Bill of Rights!

If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.