title: Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11
author: Michael Smerconish
description: Flying with his family, Smerconish, a radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist based in Philadelphia, twice had his eight-year-old son chosen for "secondary screening"and was twice able to substitute himself without incident, despite his carrying odd-looking electronic broadcast gear. Mulling the ease with which he made it though the process, he then learned of a federal policy to fine airlines "if they have more than two young Arab males in secondary questioning." (The actual testimony from an airline industry rep was that the Justice Department said a screening system would be discriminatory if it flagged more than three people of the same ethnic origin.) Contacting the Department of Transportation, Smerconish was told secondary screening is random or behavior-based. Tracing down the decisions that led to these policies in detailand decrying the policies themselvesSmerconish argues that the U.S. should give some weight to stereotypes. His hero is an immigration inspector in Orlando in 2001, who stopped a Saudi national (likely the 20th hijacker) who became visibly upset when asked why he lacked a return ticket. Designed to provoke Congress to address the tension between nondiscrimination and airlines' capacity to refuse passengers, this book, with its senatorial foreword, may do just that. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Free Speech Isn’t Free
  
  
  
  
  
  Roosh V
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © 2016 by Roosh V
  
  
  [http://www.rooshv.com](http://www.rooshv.com/)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  Prelude
  
  
  Foreword
  
  
  1: The Idea
  
  
  2: Berlin
  
  
  3: London
  
  
  4: Washington, D.C.
  
  
  5: New York City
  
  
  6: Montreal
  
  
  7: Toronto
  
  
  [8: Homeward Bound](index_split_001.html#filepos274078)
  
  
  [Epilogue 1: The Aftermath](index_split_001.html#filepos283047)
  
  
  [Epilogue 2: The Worldwide Meetup Outrage](index_split_001.html#filepos296864)
  
  
  [Transcript 1: The State Of Man Lecture](index_split_002.html#filepos342380)
  
  
  [Transcript 2: Washington, D.C. Press
  Conference](index_split_002.html#filepos400045)
  
  
  [Appendix 1: How To Survive An SJW Attack](index_split_002.html#filepos459021)
  
  
  [Appendix 2: What Is Neomasculinity?](index_split_003.html#filepos473932)
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Prelude
  
  
  
  
  
  “Here I am, ready to give two private speeches to men,” I said to Canada