John J. Tormey III, Esq.

2009 Forecasts for Defense Spending

I didn't know you guys did comedy too. "AIA President, Marion Blakey says, '[Obama] understands the criticality of an adequate defense budget and the importance of strong defense'." – and, the American people understand that Marion Blakey ran the FAA into the ground as the second-worst FAA Administrator in history next to Bobby Sturgell, and that Made Marion is but an aeropublicist who should stop flapping her gums pretending she knows ANYTHING about defense or the military. The only thing she'd ever do in a fight is try to pull hair, and then miss.

Southwest Airlines Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

Quiet Rockland Assures A Special Place In History For Failed FAA Acting Administrator Bobby Sturgell
Quiet Rockland Buys “bobbysturgell.com”, “bobbysturgell.net”, “bobbysturgell.org” URL’s
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: “Quiet Rockland”, 1-212-410-4142

QUIET ROCKLAND LANDS ALL KEY FAA BOBBY STURGELL INTERNET DOMAIN-NAMES
QRNewswire/Rockland County, NY:

In a tripartite deal with a New England-based seller and Herndon, VA Internet domain-name registrar Network Solutions,
www.networksolutions.c...
suburban New York anti-FAA aero-activist group Quiet Rockland has announced its acquisition of the 3 most critical Internet Uniform Resource Locator (URL) domain-names relating to failed FAA Acting Administrator Robert Allan (“Bobby”) Sturgell:
www.bobbysturgell.com
www.bobbysturgell.org
www.bobbysturgell.net

The transaction was handled by Quiet Rockland co-founder John J. Tormey III, Esq., and his law practice, John J. Tormey III, PLLC:
www.tormey.org
The arrangement with Network Solutions accords Quiet Rockland the unilateral option of an up-to-100-year extension of each domain-name registration term. Further specifics of the purchase remain undisclosed.

Said Tormey:

“Quiet Rockland has now struck another blow for justice, fair treatment of air traffic controllers (ATCs), and historical accuracy. In the last year at the helm, Bobby Sturgell ‘piloted’ his Tombstone Agency FAA directly into the ground – abusing his ATC workforce, continually threatening our safety, and putting us Americans all at risk while doing so. We therefore return the courtesy to him and his awful FAA. Quiet Rockland today dedicates these 3 permanent First Amendment-protected electronic-memorial reciprocal-tombstones to Bobby Sturgell’s abysmal, morally-bereft legacy of putting profits over people and failing the American citizenry. Now, election-result irrespective, whether or not Bobby Sturgell follows through on his earlier-stated intention to quit his post by November, each person accessing the Internet worldwide who searches Bobby Sturgell’s name at any time in the next 100 years, will be virtually-certain to take heed of Sturgell’s well-earned agency cyber-posterity heritage of FAAilure. This is Quiet Rockland’s virtual parting gift to Bobby Sturgell.

“Quiet Rockland also intends this action to be a warning to those other aero-head officials, misguided enough to think of threatening our interests in the future. As but one additional example, we expect that FAA NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign Project Manager Steven (Steve) Kelley will now want to carefully review the website at the also-newly-acquired URL
www.stevekelleyfaa.com
This site permanently chronicles Steve Kelley’s own role in the 1985 Fairview, NJ aircrash killing 6 people – an event which Steve Kelley himself worked as an ATC. We look forward to exercising our 100-year option on that URL filing as well.

“More communications will follow. Our rock-solid foundational message is clear. Whether a federal official, or anyone else – if you threaten Quiet Rockland’s interests or those of any ATC, expect a response – and expect that response to follow you throughout your career, your life, and perhaps beyond, in, at minimum, electronically-memoria... posterity. We have the resources. We have the technology. And, we have the will. FAA management will be repopulated with responsible personnel. The NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign will be defeated.
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Southwest Airlines Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

So to the FAA I say, “I’ve got your ‘50 Year Celebration’ – RIGHT HERE!”

And my celebration of your tired and dysfunctional lawless and hypocritical agency, FAA, is to celebrate the now-manifest 50 Ways To FIRE BOBBY STURGELL.

1. Fire Bobby Sturgell for FAA’s threats made to aviation safety inspectors, now FBI-investigated.
2. Fire Bobby Sturgell for lying about and seeking to cover-up the cracked Southwest planes.
3. Fire Bobby Sturgell for lying about and seeking to cover-up the American airlines wire-bundles.
4. Fire Bobby Sturgell for perpetuating the Tombstone Agency culture, reacting only to a tombstone.
5. Fire Bobby Sturgell for “closing the book” on fuel-tank explosions when they remain a threat.
6. Fire Bobby Sturgell for countless mid-air near-misses and runway incursions.
7. Fire Bobby Sturgell for low-fuel landings and wrong-way departures.
8. Fire Bobby Sturgell for being nothing more than an aeromercantile sycophant and airline-company patsy.
9. Fire Bobby Sturgell for lying about and seeking to conceal accidents and incidents when they occur.
10. Fire Bobby Sturgell for his repeated acts of perjury.
11. Fire Bobby Sturgell for his repeated acts of contempt of Congress.
12. Fire Bobby Sturgell for failing to consider people and lives on the ground.
13. Fire Bobby Sturgell for ignoring Inspector General Scovel and Congressman James Oberstar.
14. Fire Bobby Sturgell for lying to threatened-to-be-overf... communities.
15. Fire Bobby Sturgell for lying to the ATCs, to NATCA, to the American people, and to the press.
16. Fire Bobby Sturgell for making bad hires of unethical and incompetent colleagues.
17. Fire Bobby Sturgell for being inarticulate in a federal position that actually requires the ability to speak.
18. Fire Bobby Sturgell for seeking to maliciously manipulate the media at every turn.
19. Fire Bobby Sturgell for wasting unbelievable amounts of fossil fuel and energy.
20. Fire Bobby Sturgell for overscheduling our airports and over-saturating our skies, causing numbing delays.
21. Fire Bobby Sturgell for forgetting that the AMERICAN PEOPLE are the ‘customers’, not the airlines!
22. Fire Bobby Sturgell for rejecting any Culture of Safety.
23. Fire Bobby Sturgell for pretending to know what he is doing, while not caring.
24. Fire Bobby Sturgell for his arrogance and failure to lead.
25. Fire Bobby Sturgell for lying that Redesign would create a 20% savings.
26. Fire Bobby Sturgell for only reacting when forced, and not otherwise.
27. Fire Bobby Sturgell for failing to timely implement NextGen and other critical technologies.
28. Fire Bobby Sturgell for taking orders from the wrong people.
29. Fire Bobby Sturgell for re-introducing defective planes and parts back into the stream of world commerce.
30. Fire Bobby Sturgell for collaborating with a FOIA unit to conceal information and falsify documents.
31. Fire Bobby Sturgell for wasting litigation dollars on matters that should never have been litigated.
32. Fire Bobby Sturgell for concealing flight plans.
33. Fire Bobby Sturgell for always blaming the victim and never taking personal responsibility.
34. Fire Bobby Sturgell for repeatedly screwing-up FAA Reauthorization.
35. Fire Bobby Sturgell for forgetting that he works for the people and not the other way around.
36. Fire Bobby Sturgell for the sought intimidation of bloggers and others exercising the First Amendment.
37. Fire Bobby Sturgell for ignoring Homeland Security concerns.
38. Fire Bobby Sturgell for not preventing dangerous non-Americans from “repairing” American aircraft.
39. Fire Bobby Sturgell for not fixing lax and rushed security and screening procedures at airports.
40. Fire Bobby Sturgell for harming the environment and contributing to our current energy crisis.
41. Fire Bobby Sturgell, to prevent more falling blue ice, aircraft parts, and pilot guns going off in cockpits.
42. Fire Bobby Sturgell for abusing the workforce of air traffic controllers, and not planning ahead for their retirement.
43. Fire Bobby Sturgell for getting investigated by virtually every federal law enforcement and governmental body that could do so.
44. Fire Bobby Sturgell for being the DelMarVa ideological spawn of J. Edgar Hoover, himself emanating from a Maryland biker-bar which recently posted racist, homophobic, and anti-biker epithets on its own outdoor wall.
45. Fire Bobby Sturgell for maintaining the “Partnership Program” with airlines that puts lives at risk.
46. Fire Bobby Sturgell for not preventing dangerous non-Americans from attending FAA-certified flight schools.
47. Fire Bobby Sturgell for lying to Senators Arlen Specter, Claire McCaskill, Frank Lautenberg, and Barbara Boxer.
48. Fire Bobby Sturgell for fostering the “Cozy Relationship” with airlines, thereby abdicating his and his agency’s legal duty to regulate.
49. Fire Bobby Sturgell for helping waste over US$53.5 million on a failed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign, and tons more money on other failed boondoggles.
50. Fire Bobby Sturgell for lying about the fact that he already quit his job and tapped Ruth Leverenz as his default successor.

Hey, FAA and Bobby Sturgell?

HAPPY 50TH!

Southwest Airlines Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

Copies of this post with photos, are available at:
bobbysturgell.com
bobbysturgell.net
bobbysturgell.org

Failed FAA Pilot Bobby Sturgell Racks Up His 3,000th Civilian Kill, And Somehow Keeps Flying

To this day, our federal government in the United States has continued to allow the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), for good reason otherwise known as the “Tombstone Agency”, to be run by a morally-bereft incompetent liar and perjurer by the name of Robert Allan “Bobby” Sturgell. You already know Bobby Sturgell. He self-touts his “Top Gun” status while seemingly unable to cite any bona fide combat experience. He professes his married status while somehow unable to wear a wedding ring while on business trips. He feigns public official status while borne of a DelMarVa shoot-’em-up biker bar until recently owned by Bobby’s FBI Mom who served as J. Edgar Hoover’s secretary. He is the imposter known as FAA “Acting” Administrator.

How apt.

A few months ago, Bobby Sturgell racked up his 3,000th civilian aviation kill. That’s a lot of notches on Top Gun’s wing.

In but one (1) short year in office as bumbling “Acting Administrator” of the FAA, Bobby Sturgell has finished the job, and he has murdered aviation safety. Yet Bobby Sturgell’s homicide-of-decency commenced at least 5 years ago when Bobby Sturgell joined the FAA back in 2003.

The period of time from 2003 forward, to the date within the next few weeks that Bobby Sturgell ejects from his corner office at 800 Independence, shall be forever known as:

“The Bobby Sturgell Tombstone FAA Regime, 2003-2008”.

United States aviation fatality statistics are public record, and are available on the Internet. They are the NTSB’s own damning admission. See below.

According to Quiet Rockland’s count of the NTSB statistics of approximately one (1) week ago, since the year in which Bobby Sturgell joined the FAA, in 2003 – no less than Three Thousand, Three Hundred And Eighty-Three (3,383) human beings have died in aviation accidents and other aviation incidents in the United States. The body-count number has undoubtedly increased since then.

These 3,383 tombstones are on Bobby Sturgell’s head. Naturally, Bobby Sturgell did not run every single one of these planes and corpses into the ground in aviation flame-out, even though Bobby Sturgell’s incompetence well could have. Rather, in this case, the Sturgellian offense is not mere negligence alone. The offense is willful on Bobby Sturgell’s part, and 5 years perpetuated. The fact is that it is Bobby Sturgell himself, Sturgell’s arrant recidivist pandering to aeromercantile interests to the exclusion of human safety, Sturgell’s inhuman abuse of the ATC work-force, and Sturgell’s continual and contemptuous lawless derision for the Culture of Safety that should otherwise govern American aviation, that are the primary causes of these 3,383 dead bodies.

In reply, Bobby Sturgell will squirm, avoid, deny responsibility, blame the victim, and blame others – just like he always does out of his own cowardice. Yet today, we – Americans - hold Bobby Sturgell accountable. Today, WE count the bodies that Bobby Sturgell is afraid and unwilling to count.

The blood is on Bobby Sturgell’s ugly FAA airline-bought-and-pai... hands. It is now confirmed. Sturgell’s failed FAA regime is responsible for the loss of more human life than that which occurred at The World Trade Center in Manhattan on September 11, 2001.

Quiet Rockland invites anyone else similarly-concerned, to carry out their own careful count of Bobby Sturgell’s and FAA’s fatality statistics since 2003. We are warning you, it is an unpleasant and difficult task. The NTSB aviation fatality links follow, immediately below.

Meanwhile, Bobby Sturgell and the other FAA ghouls continue to “celebrate” FAA’s “50th Anniversary”, with verbatim quotations like these:

www.faa.gov/news/speec...
“The… women and men of the FAA over the years have pulled together in one direction to create the safest transportation system in the history of the world”.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Robert A. “Bobby” Sturgell
August 21, 2008 Speech And Press Release Entitled: “The Credit Goes to You” – “FAA 50th Anniversary” (Washington, D.C.).

www.airventure.org/200...
“[I]t’s the safest period we’ve ever been in aviation”.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Robert A. “Bobby” Sturgell
August 1, 2008 EAA Air Venture Speech and Interview (Oshkosh, WI).

www.faa.gov/news/press...
“We are currently experiencing the safest period in aviation history… That’s not chance. It’s not a miracle. It’s the result of an entire industry making safety its driving focus”.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Robert A. “Bobby” Sturgell
April 2, 2008 Speech And Press Release Entitled: “FAA Announces Improvements to Inspection Program - Initial Airline Audit Validates Agency’s Overall Approach to Aviation Safety”, (Washington, D.C.).

www.faa.gov/news/testi...
“[W]e should note that we are living in the safest period in aviation history… Safety is and will always be the primary goal of the FAA”.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Robert A. “Bobby” Sturgell
September 26, 2007 Testimony And Statement Before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Aviation, (Washington, D.C.).

Bobby Sturgell would deceive you into believing that his failed FAA regime was “the safest period in aviation history”.

The souls of no less than 3,383 dead, now attest otherwise.

Bobby Sturgell is a liar.

Bobby Sturgell and his failed FAA regime are responsible for an outrageous and unacceptable number of aviation fatalities.

The Bobby Sturgell FAA was the worst FAA regime in the agency’s 50-year history.

Aviation Fatality Statistics, United States - Year 2003 Through Year 2008:
ejectsturgell.blogspot...

Aviation Fatality And Injury Statistics, Worldwide - Year 2003 Through Year 2008:
removesturgell.blogspo...

Southwest Airlines Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

QR Anguilliforme Newswire/Rockland County, New York - Tuesday October 7, 2008

Sources tell Quiet Rockland that U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Mary Peters is now making preparations to brief the “new Administrator” of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

In a related story, FAA promotes Ruth Leverenz to “Acting Deputy Administrator” as Internet-listed second-in-command Key Official, in anticipation of Acting Administrator Robert Allan “Bobby” Sturgell’s departure from FAA office:
www.faa.gov/about/key_.../
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For the full story, please see:
www.bobbysturgell.net

Southwest Airlines Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

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Quiet Rockland Urges America To REJECT Robert A. (“Bobby”) Sturgell As FAA Administrator

In the lyrics of Dewey Bunnell of the group America, from their 1971 song entitled “Sandman”:

“All the planes have been – grounded”.

It’s time to bring back America. The REAL America. The FAA is more broken than the cracked airplanes it purports to regulate. FAA Head “Bobby” Sturgell is a losing legacy case – the son of J. Edgar Hoover’s personal secretary, planted years later at the FAA, an agency that the powers-that-be assumed Sturgell could never muck up. Well, that failed legacy case named “Bobby” Sturgell DID muck it all up. Big time. The United States aviation system is now at flashpoint crisis. Enter, Sandman.

Quiet Rockland opposes Robert A. “Bobby” Sturgell’s confirmation as FAA Administrator. Moreover, Quiet Rockland calls for “Bobby” Sturgell’s SUMMARY REMOVAL as Acting FAA Administrator. “Bobby” Sturgell is an abominable public official. The current regime of the FAA is a dismal nightmare. The FAA is a guileful federal agency still dwelling in the pocket of industry. Together, Sturgell, the FAA, and the airlines derisively and contemptuously laugh at you and me, the American people – the people to whom this country belongs. But no more.

This spring started with cracked Southwest Airlines planes. The FAA allowed these planes to remain in revenue service. The FAA allowed passengers to fly in these cracked airplanes. And Southwest was more than happy to take money from passengers for flying in these cracked planes. Now but a few weeks later, at least four airlines have filed for federal bankruptcy protection, with more bankruptcy filings that may follow. The airline industry is disintegrating before our eyes just like the tired old defective planes which they pretend to maintain.

April 2008 has seen record numbers, in the thousands, of planes grounded. The groundings are “Bobby” Sturgell’s fault. The groundings are the direct result of a previously-illusory safety inspection regime and the astounding and unlawful regulatory ineptitude of the FAA, now under FBI investigation and Congressional investigation. The results of the groundings to the everyday American, were and are intolerable. Many thousands of travelers were stranded, and we are told by some that the problem may continue through the summer and beyond. This is what “Bobby” Sturgell would have all Americans endure for FIVE more years if he is confirmed as FAA Administrator? He MUST be joking.

Moreover, “Bobby” Sturgell now threatens our national stability and security. As John Dean observed almost two generations ago at the outset of the long national nightmare known as Watergate, there is a cancer growing on the Presidency. There is a cancer growing on the Administration, and on this country. That very cancer is failed FAA Acting Administrator “Bobby” Sturgell himself, and the rogue dysfunctional federal agency known as the FAA. “Bobby” Sturgell must be ejected. The FAA must be repopulated with competent and honest federal officials. As Senators Lautenberg and Menendez observed in an April 10, 2008 letter to “Bobby” Sturgell:

“The FAA’s hands-off approach to airline oversight has allowed …deliberate violations…, shoddy maintenance, incomplete record-keeping, and complacent oversight practices to fester”… “Why were… potentially unsafe planes allowed to fly…?”

Instead of protecting our safety like they are supposed to do, the FAA, in continuing complicity with the airlines, threatens hero aviation inspector whistleblowers. The House Transportation Committee hearing on Thursday April 3, 2008 exposed all of that in a 9-hour webcast, for all the world to see. As Congressman James Oberstar the Head of the House Transportation Committee observed, if last Thursday’s hearing “had been a grand jury proceeding, it would have resulted in indictments”.

While we find it unbelievable, a few Senators, and even possibly the President, continue to this day to support “Bobby” Sturgell as FAA Head. Quiet Rockland disagrees. We are proud Americans who believe in the integrity of the American system of government. We want national stability, national security, aviation safety, environmental justice, and aviation justice. We’re sick of our country’s aviation system being laughed at by other countries. We want to foster continued public pride in our government, and a continued belief that the system works - in the eyes of U.S. citizens, and in the eyes of the rest of the world. “Bobby” Sturgell’s removal as Acting FAA Head is integral to these goals.

Even if you assume arguendo that Mr. Sturgell did not himself personally make or sanction threats against aviation safety whistleblowers, the offensive activity occurred at a failed federal agency under his watch – as did all the other offensive FAA activity recently unearthed. The April 3 House hearing chronicled many other of “Bobby” Sturgell’s FAA failures. During that hearing we also learned that circa 2003 the FAA launched a “Partnership Program” wherein individuals spent months hand-delivering packets to airlines, happily announcing that airlines had become the “customers” and “clients” of the FAA. That’s flat wrong. WE THE PEOPLE are the customers of the FAA. The FAA is supposed to regulate the airlines. The FAA is not supposed to kiss the backsides of the airlines. As for “Bobby” Sturgell’s role and involvement in all of this perversion of justice and dereliction of federal duty, one only need note that “Bobby” Sturgell started work at the FAA in the very same year as the “Partnership Program” was launched – 2003. “Bobby” Sturgell is a private dancer for the very airline industry that callously and inhumanly threatens our safety. Never mind fox and henhouse. Just throw the bums out.

Quiet Rockland urges each Honorable U.S. Senator to further forestall any vote on “Bobby” Sturgell’s confirmation. Additionally, Quiet Rockland urges all Senators, and all Americans, to carefully consider the manifold reasons why any vote in support of “Bobby” Sturgell would be antithetical to the interests of this country and its citizens. What we want, is what is in the best interests of the American people – removal of “Bobby” Sturgell from office, NOW. The talent pool is deeper than this. There is more to leadership than rhapsodizing through one’s old aviator goggles. We have an ugly aviation safety crisis and scandal on our hands. Let’s wash our hands of it. Let’s wash our hands of “Bobby” Sturgell and his [f]ailed [a]viation [a]dministration. Quiet Rockland urges all Americans to Just Say No to “Bobby” Sturgell. Quiet Rockland urges all Americans to let all of our elected officials hear that, loud and clear. Enter, Sandman. The further case against Bobby Sturgell is posted at the following website:
ejectsturgell.blogspot...

Respectfully submitted,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland
ejectsturgell.blogspot...

Flight Safety Technologies CEO Speaks About His Company

Quiet Rockland of Rockland County, New York is enraged over the callous criminal disregard for safety and human life demonstrated by Southwest Airlines (NYSE: “LUV”) and the FAA. We today call for: (1) a nationwide traveler and consumer boycott of Southwest, and (2) a federal criminal investigation of Southwest and “failed regulator” FAA to be spear-headed by the United States Attorney General and a special prosecutor.

The persons that should be flying Southwest at this point, should be only those referred by Doctor Kevorkian. Although the depraved Southwest spin-machine audaciously ‘assures’ us Southwest’s six (6) cracked-fuselage aircraft were “never a safety problem”, Southwest should tell that to the victims of the 1988 Aloha Airlines disaster. There, metal fatigue on an aging Boeing 737 caused 18 feet of fuselage to be ripped off the plane causing grievous injuries and loss of life. House Transportation Committee Chairman James Oberstar in his press conference Saturday, posted on “www.cspan.org”, presented detailed evidence incriminating Southwest and “Bobby” Sturgell’s failed FAA. The incriminating events occurred while “Bobby” Sturgell was Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator of the FAA. On Saturday, Representative Oberstar thereupon rightfully excoriated the aero-perps for their long-standing “tombstone mentality”. Although criminal and morally reprehensible, and now apparent after a many-month detailed Congressional investigation, Southwest and FAA are clearly in the insalubrious business of making those tombstones happen, in addition to simply reacting to those tombstones post facto.

As recently as last year, Southwest Airlines, with the complicity of supposed federal regulator FAA, on at least 47 of Southwest’s Boeing 737 aircraft, on between 1,451 and 60,000 flights, over a period of two-and-one-half years, deliberately put approximately 200,000 or more unsuspecting travelers in harm’s way - making them fly in un-inspected, non-compliant, aged, and in some cases fuselage-cracked commercial aircraft. Southwest knew the names and faces of their potential victims. Southwest gladly took their money, and for that matter at this point Southwest owes each of them at least a rebate in full of their ticket prices. This was not mere negligence. Irrespective of what forensic lesser charge might technically ultimately apply once further Congressional investigation concludes, the acts and omissions of Southwest and collaborator FAA were tantamount to attempted murder, on a massive scale.

This WILL not stand.

Quiet Rockland asks and encourages those Southwest employees tired of subscribing to their company’s tombstone culture, to leave their sinking airship now to find other and better employ at a responsible airline that actually acknowledges the dignity of the individual human traveler. We further ask every American consumer to now act in solidarity - cancel all flights and other business with Southwest – boycott the airline which we today re-name “Air Kevorkian” - and just say “No” to Southwest, to FAA, and to the greed of the aeromercantile complex that continually and habitually puts profits over people’s lives.

And, as to Southwest stockholders? Vote your conscience.

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland

Flight Safety Technologies CEO Speaks About His Company

Here in Rockland County, New York, we’re fed-up with stone-cold anti-environmentalists threatening our homes with unrelenting commercial jumbo-jet overflights. We’re incredulous that an eight-term Congressman would support the already-failed, chronically-unsafe regime of FAA Acting Administrator Robert A. (“Bobby”) Sturgell. So our environmental group “Quiet Rockland” has called for the resignation of hard-core extremist conservative Representative John L. Mica (R-Fl.) from the U.S. House Transportation Committee and the House Subcommittee on Aviation.

It’s time for Mica to flake himself off from the American political landscape. His harmful transportation legacy includes the Minnesota bridge collapse and Alaskan “bridge to nowhere” fiasco each occurring under his watch. Mica’s bald plugs for the FAA and aviation over-expansionism are as tiresome as an “Apply directly to the forehead!” TV commercial – as well as hazardous to innocent American people.

Through long-distance cyber-contribution to the political process, ‘Quiet Rockland’ will afford every assistance to help the informed electorate in Florida’s Seventh District chip Mica and his cronies away from elected office in November. Any vote ‘for Mica’ would be a vote for Mica’s vacuous petro-plastic culture. Yet aviation safety and the environment require an approach far less inanimate, and one far more sentient and human. John L. Mica is incapable of anything so organic.

As career mouthpiece for the FAA and the rich aero community, Mica recognizes no value beyond the smell of spent jet-fuel and the crinkled-paper sound of a handed-over almighty Dollar. We embrace the wisdom of clean open space and peace-and-quiet, in lieu of further Mica-forced inhalation of fossil-fuel for the sake of someone else’s quick-and-dirty paper profit. The governmental function of objective aviation regulation must be reinstituted. The stewardship currently feigned by Sturgell and Mica must be scissored out. Costs of their ouster should now be for the airlines to pay.

Mica has been ‘kept’ in office for 15 years by a staid homogeneous constituency in northeast and central Florida. Mica’s 7th District includes wealthy businesses of the greater Orlando area, and others with a keen special interest in maximizing their own revenues by over-scheduling flights and over-saturating our skies. Seeking to protect only the living rooms of his well-heeled campaign donors from any airplane noise, John Mica meanwhile abuses his influence and position on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Aviation Subcommittee to further placate those same aero-loyalists.

Mica shills for the FAA and its would-be head ‘Bobby’ Sturgell, and even road-shows for Sturgell’s ill-conceived wasteful $53.5 million boondoggle known as the ‘NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign’ aimed directly at our homes in the Northeast. While Congressman Mica is Ranking Member of the Transportation Committee, what’s truly ‘rank’ are the Mica-extruded conflicts-of-interest while he purports to further the cause of air safety.

Replete with hypocritical chutzpah is Mica’s recent accusation that others in Congress played special-interest politics when resisting Sturgell’s late-year quest for a fast-track confirmation hearing as FAA head. That would be like Ike criticizing JFK for having a receding hairline. Mica doth project too much. His patterns are too easily read.

Though dimmed at the edges by the current opaque duplicitous FAA with which Mica regularly allies, crystally-clear transparent is Mica’s brazen pandering to wealthy elements of the aero-mercantile complex who got him elected and keep him in office. Parts of Mica’s Federal Election Commission list of political contributors at ‘http://fec.gov’ read like a ‘Who’s Who’ of aviation-industry operatives. Campaign donors include airlines, PAC-shielded FAA managers, and even failed former FAA head Marion Clifton Blakey herself. Mica’s own aviation machinations are as flaky as Blakey.

While the cue-ball with which Mica ran the political pool-table 8 times to date, will sink by November - that’s not soon enough. John Mica should step down from the Transportation Committee and Aviation Subcommittee for the sake of the safety of this country and all air travel within it. While many in the Northeast have considered moving to Florida simply to vote against John Mica in the next possible election, in the meantime Rocklanders today launch a website to similar effect called ‘http://anyonebutmica.com’.

‘Quiet Rockland’ encourages citizens interested in defeating those that would harm our environment and our homes, to please access that website. For too long John L. Mica has been provided a rug of cover by aeronautical special interests. It is now time for Mica to come out from under that rug.

Flight Safety Technologies CEO Speaks About His Company

Here in Rockland County, New York, we are livid that NASA and the FAA now appear to have acted in concert towards a common goal of concealing vital air traffic safety information from flyers and others on the ground. In solidarity with a call for further Congressional hearings by Chairman of House Science and Technology Committee, Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN), our environmental activist group “Quiet Rockland” has called upon Congress and its investigative arm the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine and compel correction of NASA’s “Air Safety Survey”. We ask that all other American communities do the same. This is our government, our airspace – and OUR safety at stake and currently in peril.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin admitted that his agency’s release of the Survey’s data occurred late on New Year’s Eve. He then assured all of us that NASA “didn’t deliberately choose to release on the slowest news day of the year”. Griffin and NASA doth protest too much. The NASA survey data was issued in a redacted and deliberately-indeciphe... manner. NASA previously sought to withhold the totality of this same data at least once before, when NASA rejected a prior AP FOIA request for it. Of course NASA sought to bury its New Year’s information-release amongst the champagne corks and the dropping ball. Griffin’s suggestion otherwise insults the intelligence of the American public. He insults me and he insults all of you.

In response, Quiet Rockland scheduled its written call discussed above, to arrive on what was one of the busiest back-to-work news days of the new year. 2008 will be the year that we mandate transparency of government. We cannot trust NASA management to communicate fairly or candidly to the American people. It is pathetic that this once-majestic agency of the Apollo era, no longer able to put astronauts on the Moon, and facing difficulty keeping a number of its recently-launched spacecraft intact, now cannot even terrestrially adopt precision or seriousness of purpose beyond that of Captain Anthony Nelson, Major Roger Healy, and Barbara Eden’s “Jeannie”. How dare NASA play space games with our safety!

The organizational ineptitude of NASA management is particularly threatening in light of yet another recent runway incident between two planes over the Holidays, once again at LAX, involving pilot miscommunications with an air traffic controller. NASA’s ostensible collaboration with its cousin-agency FAA towards concealing safety information from Americans, is confluent with the overall objective of the aero-mercantile complex to over-schedule flights and over-saturate our skies. With focus only upon the almighty buck, these un-checked rogue agencies continue to act at the expense of citizen and environmental safety and health. FAA’s “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign” is another component of this same harmful aviation special-interest plan. That Redesign must be and will be defeated by citizen outcry such as that voiced by “Quiet Rockland”, not to mention the pending federal court litigations and Congressional action against it, taken in the interests of making our skies and our homes safer.

NASA and Administrator Michael Griffin initially indicated that they had no intention to analyze or study, much less further report to the public or press upon the 16,000-plus pages of raw data in the “Air Safety Survey”. “Quiet Rockland” therefore has asked that Congress and the GAO: (1) audit and investigate NASA’s purposeful mishandling and cheeky and contemptuous New Year’s Eve issuance of purposefully-obfuscate... and misleading data; and (2) order NASA to marshal and digest the Survey data and report to Congress, the GAO, and the media on it, in a fully-intelligible writing, within thirty calendar days after the January 2, 2008 date of Quiet Rockland’s written call. Given NASA’s proclivity to hide from the truth, Quiet Rockland suggested Groundhog Day as the most fitting date imaginable for that next report’s issuance.

Of the current Survey, Griffin was quoted as saying “It’s hard for me… to see any data the traveling public would care about or ought to care about”. Quiet Rockland has since assured Griffin and NASA that anecdotes extracted from the current Survey such as “pilot difficulties in talking to controllers in busy airspace’; air traffic control “capacity inadequate to handle traffic load”; “too many people on the frequency…causing a safety problem”; and perhaps worst of all, “pilots asleep” on the “flight deck”, are most definitely “cared about” by the traveling public - and will indubitably also be “cared about” by the many travelers who comprise Congress, the GAO, and the federal judiciary.