Career bureaucrats are making America safer. At least for career bureaucrats.
The Air Force’s top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on “comfort capsules” to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world, with at least four top generals involved in design details such as the color of the capsules’ carpet and leather chairs, according to internal e-mails and budget documents.
Production of the first capsule — consisting of two sealed rooms that can fit into the fuselage of a large military aircraft — has already begun.
Let’s get this straight for the historical records. While your government is making you take your shoes off and searching through your dirty underwear in exchange for allowing you to get on a plane (obedience training) engineers somewhere else in the country are being paid out of your tax money to design “comfort capsules” for military brass, dignitaries and other “public servants” because Lord knows we wouldn’t want them to have to fly commercial and submit to the same cattle herding treatment as the common man.
Air Force documents spell out how each of the capsules is to be “aesthetically pleasing and furnished to reflect the rank of the senior leaders using the capsule,” with beds, a couch, a table, a 37-inch flat-screen monitor with stereo speakers, and a full-length mirror.
The effort has been slowed, however, by congressional resistance to using counterterrorism funds for the project and by lengthy internal deliberations about a series of demands for modifications by Air Force generals. One request was that the color of the leather for the seats and seat belts in the mobile pallets be changed from brown to Air Force blue and that seat pockets be added; another was that the color of the table’s wood be darkened.
The Congressional resistance is only because Congress didn’t think of this idea themselves. We might as well just declare feudalism as our way of government. Global War on Terror my ass. We’re fighting a war all right, but it’s against our own stupidity.