Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bob Giuda" in English language version.
I started a movement that today has resulted in ten thousand airline pilots carrying weapons in cockpits to protect against... {applause} I was grounded by my company, threatened with termination, and I said "Fine, thank you for the grounding." I went to Washington, D.C., worked with Senator Bob Smith, six other airline pilots around the country, and today we have the program.
We had a bill come to the floor of the house; twenty to nothing, ought to pass this amendment. Came out of the Transportation Committee and said, we should put information about biometrics and personal data on the back of your driver's license - the magnetic strip. And the reason was - you'll love this - security and safety! So I stood up and in a two minute floor oration I said, "Excuse me but I've been to the world, or I've traveled the world, and I've gone through more security checks than any person in this crowd or anywhere else around here. If you think that further intruding into the privacy of our citizens and making that public knowledge in a database in Concord that will get hacked, and if you think that making them pay more for a piece of plastic makes our country more secure, I hate to tell you something, that bad guys have computer technologies that will make more genuine driver's licenses than the DMV sitting across the road." Bad guys don't care about the laws so why do we further restrict and infringe on the law-abiding citizens?
And further, our government, our Congress, is proposing to take over our healthcare system with access to the most intimate details of our private lives and without question to allow bureaucrats at some level to ration that health care and determine who's going to live and who's going to die and when.
The Patriot Act is the worst form of destruction done to the Constitution, I think, in our country's history.
I would take 9/11 all over again rather than the thrashing our Constitution has taken. We took a seven trillion dollar hit on September 11th; we've recovered from that. What has been lost may not be recoverable and that is our freedom from unreasonable intrusion and search and seizure and for reasons not necessarily of a substantial enough nature that they would've brought on a search warrant prior.
