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Jim Logajan
May 23rd 08, 09:03 PM
"About midnight last night, the FAA Notam system crashed," AOPA's Chris
Dancy told AVweb early on Friday morning.

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/FAA_NOTAMSystemOffLine_197954-1.html

Awwwwwwwwww
May 23rd 08, 09:44 PM
Jim Logajan wrote:
> "About midnight last night, the FAA Notam system crashed," AOPA's Chris
> Dancy told AVweb early on Friday morning.
>
> http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/FAA_NOTAMSystemOffLine_197954-1.html

How many unqualified FAA Diversity Experiments does it take
to change a light bulb??

The world may never know

Jay Maynard
May 23rd 08, 11:15 PM
On 2008-05-23, Awwwwwwwwww > wrote:
> How many unqualified FAA Diversity Experiments does it take
> to change a light bulb??
>
> The world may never know

How many fired, embittered ex-FAA employees does it take to spam Usenet?

1.
--
Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (FRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC (ordered 17 March, delivery 2 June)

Awwwwwwwwww
May 24th 08, 12:47 AM
Jay Maynard wrote:
> On 2008-05-23, Awwwwwwwwww > wrote:
>> How many unqualified FAA Diversity Experiments does it take
>> to change a light bulb??
>>
>> The world may never know
>
> How many fired, embittered ex-FAA employees does it take to spam Usenet?
>
> 1.

It amazes me how people judge based on incomplete facts

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to
open your mouth and remove any doubt"-Abraham Lincoln

Jay Maynard
May 24th 08, 02:32 AM
On 2008-05-23, Awwwwwwwwww > wrote:
> Jay Maynard wrote:
>> How many fired, embittered ex-FAA employees does it take to spam Usenet?
>> 1.
> It amazes me how people judge based on incomplete facts

Then tell us: Why do you insist on spamming Usenet with your same old tired
anti-FAA screeds? We've all seen them, we're all tired of them, we wish
you'd dry up and blow away.

Hint: "Because I'm trying to save your butts" will be disregarded as the
utter bilge it is.
--
Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (FRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC (ordered 17 March, delivery 2 June)

Eric Greenwell
May 24th 08, 04:44 AM
Jay Maynard wrote:
> On 2008-05-23, Awwwwwwwwww > wrote:
>> Jay Maynard wrote:
>>> How many fired, embittered ex-FAA employees does it take to spam Usenet?
>>> 1.
>> It amazes me how people judge based on incomplete facts
>
> Then tell us: Why do you insist on spamming Usenet with your same old tired
> anti-FAA screeds? We've all seen them, we're all tired of them, we wish
> you'd dry up and blow away.
>
> Hint: "Because I'm trying to save your butts" will be disregarded as the
> utter bilge it is.

I suggest deleting the cross-posting, so the "bilge" is spread any
farther than the newsgroup you reply from. I'd do that, except I don't
know which newsgroup Jay is reading.

Awwwwwwwwww
May 24th 08, 02:09 PM
Eric Greenwell wrote:
> Jay Maynard wrote:
>> On 2008-05-23, Awwwwwwwwww > wrote:
>>> Jay Maynard wrote:
>>>> How many fired, embittered ex-FAA employees does it take to spam
>>>> Usenet?
>>>> 1.
>>> It amazes me how people judge based on incomplete facts
>>
>> Then tell us: Why do you insist on spamming Usenet with your same old
>> tired
>> anti-FAA screeds? We've all seen them, we're all tired of them, we wish
>> you'd dry up and blow away.
>>
>> Hint: "Because I'm trying to save your butts" will be disregarded as the
>> utter bilge it is.
>
> I suggest deleting the cross-posting, so the "bilge" is spread any
> farther than the newsgroup you reply from. I'd do that, except I don't
> know which newsgroup Jay is reading.

Bilge?
Screed?

Hint: An opinion is like an asshole. Your's stinks just like
everyone else.

NON Politically Correct facts make weak people and
sycophants nervous in this brain washed Government educated
country. It is the same reason an unknown UNQUALIFIED and
INEXPERIENCED BLACK guy is close to becoming the Democratic
nominee for President.

Do you remember the story "The Emperor has no clothes"?
You need to read it if you don't

"Kissing the Black ASS" is an infectious politically correct
disease that will soon decimate America. The FAA and our
Government is a MESS due to politically correct hiring
practices and "Kissing the Black Ass"

So tell me. What is it like living life as a SYCOPHANT
and BRAIN WASHED by the media and Government schools?

Read the below excerpt from a recent "PRESIDENTIAL"
candidate. The best candidate to lead our country who was
lessened and ignored and vilified by the homosexual
controlled Marxist left wing media in America

It is the federal government that most divides us by race,
class, religion, and gender. Through its taxes, restrictive
regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and
welfare programs, government plays far too large a role in
determining who succeeds and who fails. Government
"benevolence" crowds out genuine goodwill by
institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group
suspicious that others are receiving more of the government
loot. This leads to resentment and hostility among us.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset
that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than
as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who
share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as
collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By
encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the
advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism.

One last comment. I and We are NOT going away. We will
continue to spread the news our Government and the FAA is a
MESS due to filling their top ranks with incompetent and
unqualified minorities and women. The truth will not be
denied. Our message is not "tired". In fact, our message
will ring louder and louder until America wakes up from it's
politically correct COMA

So, deal with it.

Have a nice day sycophant

Vaughn Simon
May 24th 08, 03:52 PM
"Awwwwwwwwww" > wrote in message
...
> will ring louder and louder until America wakes up from it's politically
> correct COMA

Your errors are many and are quite glaring. I will comment on a couple:

First, the opinions that you have expressed have no apparent connection to the
thread (which was about the NOTAM system in case you forgot).

Second, political correctness and your racism are not opposite ends of the
same continum. It is possible to abhore both, and I do.

Vaughn

Awwwwwwwwww
May 24th 08, 04:07 PM
Vaughn Simon wrote:
> "Awwwwwwwwww" > wrote in message
> ...
>> will ring louder and louder until America wakes up from it's politically
>> correct COMA
>
> Your errors are many and are quite glaring. I will comment on a couple:
>
> First, the opinions that you have expressed have no apparent connection to the
> thread (which was about the NOTAM system in case you forgot).
>
> Second, political correctness and your racism are not opposite ends of the
> same continum. It is possible to abhore both, and I do.
>
> Vaughn
>
>
>

Is it "racist" to expose flaws in FAA and Government hiring?
Is it "racist" to identify and expose incompetent minorities
and women in the FAA?

Is it "racist" to pass over qualified white males in the FAA
for incompetent minorities so the "diversity" numbers look good?

The race card and racism allegations are thrown about
with vigor with no evaluation of the content of the messenger

"How dare you challenge the competency of a minority you
must be RACIST!!!"

How do you think incompetent women and minorities have
survived so long in the Government and FAA? When their
accountability and competence is challenged all they do is
scream "Racist". It is a catch all term that is used as a
shield to avoid accountability of incompetent minorities aka
Diversity Experiments

Mix in a few thousand weak spineless white male sycophants
who survive in the PC world by kissing the black ass and you
got a recipe for disaster

Is it possible the NOTAM outage like everything else that is
wrong with the FAA may be a product of poor hiring
practices, incompetence and political correctness run amok?

Open your mind to the possibilities

Like I have said "The Emperor has no clothes"
and it's all a SCAM

Political Correctness-Tyranny with Manners

Awwwwwwwwww
May 24th 08, 04:14 PM
Grounded

As a retired FAA flight standards inspector, I read your
article about air-safety oversight ("Waiting to Happen")
with great interest. I find most of your report factual, and
while it identifies some of the problems with inspectors, it
overlooks the issue of the experience and technical
abilities of the average inspector.

In the early '90s the FAA started moving from a technically
experienced workforce to one based entirely on diversity,
political correctness, and union cronyism. It became
increasingly difficult to hire industry-experienced
personnel, especially on the air carrier side of the
workforce. The FAA and the union took the position that all
inspectors are equal and if not, a few weeks of training in
Oklahoma City would level the playing field. In an industry
as complex as American civil aviation, this attitude is as
wrongheaded as one could possibly be. It's absurd to believe
that a person with 10, 12, or even 20 years in the U.S. Air
Force working on fighter aircraft, or a similar time in the
Army maintaining helicopters or working for a state Highway
Patrol, is the equivalent of one who has been working for an
airline.

The FAA routinely hires people with little or no air carrier
civil experience and places them in positions of oversight
of air carriers. Without experience in the technical
regulatory requirements of air carrier programs, these
inspectors are not only ineffectual, they are dangerous.

The FAA senior management staff in Washington are fully
aware of what they have created but cannot or will not take
corrective measures until the tombstones start piling up.
It's only a matter of time.

Steven P. McNicoll[_2_]
May 24th 08, 04:51 PM
Awwwwwwwwww wrote:
> Vaughn Simon wrote:
>> "Awwwwwwwwww" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> will ring louder and louder until America wakes up from it's
>>> politically correct COMA
>>
>> Your errors are many and are quite glaring. I will comment on a
>> couple: First, the opinions that you have expressed have no apparent
>> connection to the thread (which was about the NOTAM system in case
>> you forgot). Second, political correctness and your racism are not
>> opposite
>> ends of the same continum. It is possible to abhore both, and I do.
>>
>> Vaughn
>>
>
> Is it "racist" to expose flaws in FAA and Government hiring?
>

No.


>
> Is it "racist" to identify and expose incompetent minorities
> and women in the FAA?
>

No, but you haven't identified or exposed any incompetent minorities or
women in the FAA.


>
> Is it "racist" to pass over qualified white males in the FAA
> for incompetent minorities so the "diversity" numbers look good?
>

Yes. Please identify the qualified white males in the FAA who were passed
over in favor of incompetent minorities.

ITISALLASCAM
May 24th 08, 06:14 PM
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
> Awwwwwwwwww wrote:
>> Vaughn Simon wrote:
>>> "Awwwwwwwwww" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> will ring louder and louder until America wakes up from it's
>>>> politically correct COMA
>>> Your errors are many and are quite glaring. I will comment on a
>>> couple: First, the opinions that you have expressed have no apparent
>>> connection to the thread (which was about the NOTAM system in case
>>> you forgot). Second, political correctness and your racism are not
>>> opposite
>>> ends of the same continum. It is possible to abhore both, and I do.
>>>
>>> Vaughn
>>>
>> Is it "racist" to expose flaws in FAA and Government hiring?
>>
>
> No.
>
>
>> Is it "racist" to identify and expose incompetent minorities
>> and women in the FAA?
>>
>
> No, but you haven't identified or exposed any incompetent minorities or
> women in the FAA.
>
>
>> Is it "racist" to pass over qualified white males in the FAA
>> for incompetent minorities so the "diversity" numbers look good?
>>
>
> Yes. Please identify the qualified white males in the FAA who were passed
> over in favor of incompetent minorities.
>
>

One of many
http://www.adversity.net/FAA/ryan_v_mineta.htm

Steven P. McNicoll[_2_]
May 24th 08, 06:34 PM
ITISALLASCAM wrote:
>
> One of many
> http://www.adversity.net/FAA/ryan_v_mineta.htm
>

What's your evidence that the minorities promoted instead of him were
incompetent?

ITISALLASCAM
May 24th 08, 09:29 PM
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
> ITISALLASCAM wrote:
>> One of many
>> http://www.adversity.net/FAA/ryan_v_mineta.htm
>>
>
> What's your evidence that the minorities promoted instead of him were
> incompetent?
>
>


Think long and hard about that request for "Evidence"
of minority incompetence.

In the above case I doubt the white male would have won a
huge legal settlement against the FAA if the facts were not true

Do you really believe there is direct evidence in this age
of political correctness and fear of racism allegations of
specific incidents of incompetence within the FAA of a
specific minority available for the public?

You do realize we are talking about the FAA the Government
agency that is a master of obfuscation and distortion tactics?

The FAA has a long and sordid history of lying about
everything. The link above is one example of minority hiring
and promotion bias in the FAA and reverse racism against
white males. The vast majority of cases are hidden and
buried by the official FAA and Government ass covering goon
squads. As a matter of fact, some of those "Incompetent"
minorities are in senior FAA management as we speak.

Asking about specific minority incompetence within the FAA
is like asking for the location of the Ark of the Covenant

Now, if you go to any FAA ATCT or TRACON location and pull
any controller or technician aside for a beer and some
private conversation you will get all the evidence you need.

If you think that any "Evidence" of minority incompetence is
posted for the world to see you are living in fantasy land.
Can you imagine ANY Government official making an official
charge of "Incompetence"!?!? toward a minority? EEO and the
Media and the Justice Department will be all over them like
stink on ****.

The prime directive of the EEO/DIVERSITY SCAM within
Government is to suppress and terminate ANY allegations of
minority incompetence by belittling the messenger especially
if they are a white male. The PC Goon squads cloaked as EEO
Counselors and Civil Rights staff will attack like sharks
using terms like Klan member, Racist, Bigot, Fossil,
Non-team player, mental, drug abuser, chauvinist or any of
the myriad of career ending politically correct goon squad
NAZI methods they can muster to silence and suppress the facts.

However, minority incompetence in the FAA does exist. It is
a HUGE problem. It IS the problem with the FAA. But you will
NEVER find the evidence you are seeking within Government.
Why? Because it is buried and hidden by the masters of
manipulation and lies. FAA Management and their politically
correct sycophants and goon squads.

They don't use violent tactics. They ruin lives and families
and careers and your bank accounts. They are more insidious
than the brown shirts of 1930's Germany

They are:

Politically Correct Goon Squads a.k.a
CIVIL RIGHTS AND EEO STAFF

Go check the make up of your typical "Civil Rights" office
within ANY Government building. They are overwhelmingly
NON-WHITE. Those same cubicle rats and sycophants who store
and process that evidence of minority incompetence you so
desire?? They are mostly NON-WHITE. So, do you still think
minority incompetence and evidence exists? If you do you
believe Washington D.C. gives a rat's ass about YOU and YOUR
FAMILY. Both are a FANTASY

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
conscience to remain silent-Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government-Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Political Correctness=Tyranny with Manners
SEE: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

Karl Marx would be proud

Steven P. McNicoll[_2_]
May 25th 08, 03:47 AM
ITISALLASCAM wrote:
> Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
>> ITISALLASCAM wrote:
>>> One of many
>>> http://www.adversity.net/FAA/ryan_v_mineta.htm
>>>
>>
>> What's your evidence that the minorities promoted instead of him were
>> incompetent?
>>
>>
>
>
> Think long and hard about that request for "Evidence"
> of minority incompetence.
>
> In the above case I doubt the white male would have won a
> huge legal settlement against the FAA if the facts were not true
>
> Do you really believe there is direct evidence in this age
> of political correctness and fear of racism allegations of
> specific incidents of incompetence within the FAA of a
> specific minority available for the public?
>
> You do realize we are talking about the FAA the Government
> agency that is a master of obfuscation and distortion tactics?
>
> The FAA has a long and sordid history of lying about
> everything. The link above is one example of minority hiring
> and promotion bias in the FAA and reverse racism against
> white males. The vast majority of cases are hidden and
> buried by the official FAA and Government ass covering goon
> squads. As a matter of fact, some of those "Incompetent"
> minorities are in senior FAA management as we speak.
>
> Asking about specific minority incompetence within the FAA
> is like asking for the location of the Ark of the Covenant
>
> Now, if you go to any FAA ATCT or TRACON location and pull
> any controller or technician aside for a beer and some
> private conversation you will get all the evidence you need.
>
> If you think that any "Evidence" of minority incompetence is
> posted for the world to see you are living in fantasy land.
> Can you imagine ANY Government official making an official
> charge of "Incompetence"!?!? toward a minority? EEO and the
> Media and the Justice Department will be all over them like
> stink on ****.
>
> The prime directive of the EEO/DIVERSITY SCAM within
> Government is to suppress and terminate ANY allegations of
> minority incompetence by belittling the messenger especially
> if they are a white male. The PC Goon squads cloaked as EEO
> Counselors and Civil Rights staff will attack like sharks
> using terms like Klan member, Racist, Bigot, Fossil,
> Non-team player, mental, drug abuser, chauvinist or any of
> the myriad of career ending politically correct goon squad
> NAZI methods they can muster to silence and suppress the facts.
>
> However, minority incompetence in the FAA does exist. It is
> a HUGE problem. It IS the problem with the FAA. But you will
> NEVER find the evidence you are seeking within Government.
> Why? Because it is buried and hidden by the masters of
> manipulation and lies. FAA Management and their politically
> correct sycophants and goon squads.
>
> They don't use violent tactics. They ruin lives and families
> and careers and your bank accounts. They are more insidious
> than the brown shirts of 1930's Germany
>
> They are:
>
> Politically Correct Goon Squads a.k.a
> CIVIL RIGHTS AND EEO STAFF
>
> Go check the make up of your typical "Civil Rights" office
> within ANY Government building. They are overwhelmingly
> NON-WHITE. Those same cubicle rats and sycophants who store
> and process that evidence of minority incompetence you so
> desire?? They are mostly NON-WHITE. So, do you still think
> minority incompetence and evidence exists? If you do you
> believe Washington D.C. gives a rat's ass about YOU and YOUR
> FAMILY. Both are a FANTASY
>
> All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
> conscience to remain silent-Thomas Jefferson
>
> My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
> results from too much government-Thomas Jefferson
>
> When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
> when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
> Thomas Jefferson
>
> Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.
> Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
> George Washington
>
> Political Correctness=Tyranny with Manners
> SEE: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
>
> Karl Marx would be proud
>

I'll take that to mean you have no evidence.

ITISALLASCAM
May 25th 08, 06:06 PM
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
> ITISALLASCAM wrote:
>> Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
>>> ITISALLASCAM wrote:
>>>> One of many
>>>> http://www.adversity.net/FAA/ryan_v_mineta.htm
>>>>
>>> What's your evidence that the minorities promoted instead of him were
>>> incompetent?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Think long and hard about that request for "Evidence"
>> of minority incompetence.
>>
>> In the above case I doubt the white male would have won a
>> huge legal settlement against the FAA if the facts were not true
>>
>> Do you really believe there is direct evidence in this age
>> of political correctness and fear of racism allegations of
>> specific incidents of incompetence within the FAA of a
>> specific minority available for the public?
>>
>> You do realize we are talking about the FAA the Government
>> agency that is a master of obfuscation and distortion tactics?
>>
>> The FAA has a long and sordid history of lying about
>> everything. The link above is one example of minority hiring
>> and promotion bias in the FAA and reverse racism against
>> white males. The vast majority of cases are hidden and
>> buried by the official FAA and Government ass covering goon
>> squads. As a matter of fact, some of those "Incompetent"
>> minorities are in senior FAA management as we speak.
>>
>> Asking about specific minority incompetence within the FAA
>> is like asking for the location of the Ark of the Covenant
>>
>> Now, if you go to any FAA ATCT or TRACON location and pull
>> any controller or technician aside for a beer and some
>> private conversation you will get all the evidence you need.
>>
>> If you think that any "Evidence" of minority incompetence is
>> posted for the world to see you are living in fantasy land.
>> Can you imagine ANY Government official making an official
>> charge of "Incompetence"!?!? toward a minority? EEO and the
>> Media and the Justice Department will be all over them like
>> stink on ****.
>>
>> The prime directive of the EEO/DIVERSITY SCAM within
>> Government is to suppress and terminate ANY allegations of
>> minority incompetence by belittling the messenger especially
>> if they are a white male. The PC Goon squads cloaked as EEO
>> Counselors and Civil Rights staff will attack like sharks
>> using terms like Klan member, Racist, Bigot, Fossil,
>> Non-team player, mental, drug abuser, chauvinist or any of
>> the myriad of career ending politically correct goon squad
>> NAZI methods they can muster to silence and suppress the facts.
>>
>> However, minority incompetence in the FAA does exist. It is
>> a HUGE problem. It IS the problem with the FAA. But you will
>> NEVER find the evidence you are seeking within Government.
>> Why? Because it is buried and hidden by the masters of
>> manipulation and lies. FAA Management and their politically
>> correct sycophants and goon squads.
>>
>> They don't use violent tactics. They ruin lives and families
>> and careers and your bank accounts. They are more insidious
>> than the brown shirts of 1930's Germany
>>
>> They are:
>>
>> Politically Correct Goon Squads a.k.a
>> CIVIL RIGHTS AND EEO STAFF
>>
>> Go check the make up of your typical "Civil Rights" office
>> within ANY Government building. They are overwhelmingly
>> NON-WHITE. Those same cubicle rats and sycophants who store
>> and process that evidence of minority incompetence you so
>> desire?? They are mostly NON-WHITE. So, do you still think
>> minority incompetence and evidence exists? If you do you
>> believe Washington D.C. gives a rat's ass about YOU and YOUR
>> FAMILY. Both are a FANTASY
>>
>> All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
>> conscience to remain silent-Thomas Jefferson
>>
>> My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
>> results from too much government-Thomas Jefferson
>>
>> When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
>> when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
>> Thomas Jefferson
>>
>> Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.
>> Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
>> George Washington
>>
>> Political Correctness=Tyranny with Manners
>> SEE: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
>>
>> Karl Marx would be proud
>>
>
> I'll take that to mean you have no evidence.
>
>


The Corporate and Government Diversity Scam


Under the guise of "diversity training," the intolerance of
the political Left has penetrated corporate America.
Initially implemented to both insulate companies from
lawsuits while fostering a more harmonious working
environment, corporate diversity training has turned the
twenty-first century workplace into a war zone. Throughout
the last decade, corporate diversity departments and
well-paid external "diversity consultants" have instituted
training programs specifically designed to enforce political
correctness in corporations.

The demand for conformity inherent to these programs is
undeniable. Despite their stated purpose, corporate
"diversity" departments have demonstrated a fundamental lack
of tolerance for any diversity in employee thought and have
made basic decency in the workplace a matter of swallowing
political correctness. Employing behavior modification
techniques popular with totalitarian regimes, they have
spent the last decade intimidating and indoctrinating employees.

Before many corporate diversity programs begin their
campaign of employee behavior modification, a workshop
facilitator often attempts to identify the employees most in
need of re-education. For example, the opening exercise from
a diversity program used by AT&T, Chevron and Nabisco works
as follows. When the workshop begins, employees must sit in
a circle and give an immediate "thumbs up" or "thumbs down"
response to statements provided by a workshop facilitator on
subjects such as affirmative action, inter-racial marriage
and AIDS in the workplace.

According to the program’s creator, the statements are
designed to provoke a "gut" response, so that the
facilitator can essentially gain insight into each
employee’s susceptibility to the message of political
correctness. If any employees’ responses "indicate confusion
or bias" or seem incompatible with the ideology being
presented by the workshop, facilitators are urged to "waste
no time in seeking help from a diversity consultant,
corporate attorney or other human resource facilitators."1
In other words, Maoist self-criticism circles have come to
the office.

This attitude of ideological intolerance reveals the most
fundamentally frightening element of such diversity
workshops: any opinion expressed that conflicts with the
workshop teachings is inherently invalid and indicates
"confusion," an unfortunate condition that requires further,
more drastic indoctrination techniques. Not to mention, of
course, an increase in corporate diversity spending. Decent
behavior, tolerance, and non-discrimination towards one’s
fellow-employees is not enough; employees are required to
buy into a set of political attitudes.

The reasonable solution to the problems that the diversity
industry claims to solve is obvious. It is in fact what most
businesses too small to be worth shaking down do: set
straightforward rules that employees must not discriminate
or harass and enforce them. That’s it. There is no need to
inflame the naturally-occurring tensions of a diverse
society by trying to coercively manipulate people’s
attitudes. And political controversies have no place in the
office or factory floor.

Back to the diversity programs: after any "confused"
employees are identified, the diversity facilitator launches
a multi-faceted assault designed to force the resisting
individuals to conform. Tactics range from group pressure,
in which the facilitator encourages politically-correct
employees to pressure non-conformist co-workers into
accepting the consensus view, to isolation in which the
dissenting individual is ostracized from the group.

Such tactics have drawn comparison to the Tavistock Method
of behavior modification, a technique once employed by
Soviet mental hospitals to "re-educate" political prisoners.
In order to manufacture a consensus:

"a controlled stress situation is created by a group leader
("facilitator") with the ostensible goal of achieving a
consensus or agreement which has, in reality, been
predetermined. By using peer pressure in gradually
increasing increments, up to and including yelling at,
cursing at, and isolating the holdouts, weaker individuals
are intimidated into caving in. They emerge, facilitators
hope, with a new value structure in place, and the goal is
achieved."2

Diversity seminars and sensitivity training groups have also
been known to use physically traumatic events to break
non-conformists. In the mid-1990’s, male employees of the
Federal Aviation Agency were tied to a toilet together while
female employees were forced to bathe in the same shower.
Female employees were also made to share a bed with their
male supervisors, and some participants even reported that
they were sleep deprived and then verbally assaulted. But
the most disturbing element of the FAA diversity training
sessions were exercises in which groups of dissenting, or
even potentially dissenting employees, were tormented by
their peers. For example, in a one FAA diversity-training
program, white males were "verbally castigated" by their
black co-workers and then forced to run a gauntlet in which
they were aggressively fondled by their female co-workers.

While diversity workshops’ employment of behavior
modification tactics allows for increased susceptibility of
their politically correct ideology, it has also enabled an
entire industry to be constructed around the concept of
corporate diversity training. Diversity consulting has
become a financial gravy train for a parasitic class of
consultants and the lawyers they dig up lawsuits for.

Forbes Magazine reports that U.S companies spend as much as
ten billion dollars per year on corporate diversity
training. According to the Wall Street Journal, "a network
of hot lines, crises centers and advocacy groups, many with
close ties to plaintiff’s lawyers, has emerged to advise
persons troubled by sex in the workplace."

Nolo Press has even released a self-help book entitled
Sexual Harassment on the Job that comes complete with a
handy reference guide detailing key phrases "A lawyer wants
to hear," such as "Fairly serious harassment," "personal
injuries (the more serious the better), " and "a solvent
defendant." These examples are just a glimpse of the sexual
harassment component of the industry. Racial discrimination
and sexual orientation have also fostered the creation of
similarly lucrative alliances between the diversity industry
and the bar.4

The corporate diversity industry has created a sanctuary
where careerist radicals can continue to spew their racially
divisive message even as mainstream America continues to
reject their politics. Nearly all of the early leaders of
the diversity industry are products of sixties leftism.
Marilyn Loden, Elsie Cross, Judith Katz, Mark Chesler,
Lillian Roybal Rose, Tom Kochman, and Price Cobbs all
developed their ideology through experiences in higher
education, race relations, and the civil rights movement.5
Despite the nearly wholesale rebuke of their far-Left
"diversity" agenda by American public opinion as revealed in
polls, these radicals have kept their ideology alive by
slowly migrating from academia and the civil rights
establishment to the corporate boardroom.

Has this vast industry improved conditions in the workplace?
All signs say no. Harassment and discrimination complaints
continue to skyrocket and workplace tensions increase. This
is no surprise, as the diversity industry has an intrinsic
interest in encouraging people to be upset and making the
situation as bad as possible. Many white or male employees
feel alienated, decreasing the morale of a significant
employee demographic and creating resentments that poison
the work environment. The imposition of a group think
mentality on corporations also strangles creative energy,
the lifeblood of a successful company.

Worse, corporations have been intimidated to the point where
an employee’s ability to navigate the corporate ladder seems
to center around "diversity" characteristics, as opposed to
actual ability. This is a threat to the competitiveness of
American companies – their Japanese and Chinese competitors
certainly don’t have to deal with this nonsense in Tokyo and
Hong Kong.

By exploiting corporate America’s lawsuit paranoia,
"diversity pioneers" have managed to develop an incredibly
lucrative war chest which allows them to continue their
radical crusade. The political Left’s corporate shakedown
has proved so lucrative that these consultants have taken
every possible step to ensure that businesses continue to
feel pressured into retaining their consulting services.
They lobby for more legislation in order to provide more
grounds for lawsuits, which then pay for more lobbying and
the vicious cycle continues.

Their system works: discrimination and harassment complaints
have risen a whopping 231% since 1991. The spike in
corporate sexual harassment and discrimination issues does
not stem from increased awareness, as those on the political
Left would encourage us to believe. Rather, the same
manufactured tension and paranoia that left the workplace
susceptible to group think indoctrination has naturally led
to an increase in harassment and discrimination issues.
Subsequently, the "need" for more frequent, more intensive,
and of course, more expensive diversity training arises.
It’s the perfect scam.

Presently, one of the most popular trends in corporate
America is the "cultural audit." Initially conceived as a
way to limit bias-based lawsuits, these cultural audits have
degenerated into one of the most lethal weapons in the
politically correct careerist’s arsenal. For a mere
$20,000-$35,000, a Washington DC-based consulting firm will
perform a "cultural audit" of your company in order to
reveal any discriminatory or insensitive practices. Once one
of these audits is concluded, the company being investigated
is naturally revealed to suffer from some sort of
culturally, sexually, or racially biased work environment.
These charges are then reported to corporate executives,
who, eager to avoid legal difficulties, hire the consultant,
or an organization connected to the consultant, to conduct
diversity or sensitivity training.

For these consultants, this diversity mandate means
conducting "cultural awareness seminars," which not only
continues to fill consultants’ coffers while spreading a
politically correct ideology, but by creating more
discontent in the workplace, these consultants increase the
need for more costly seminars and training sessions.

Frequently, these "cultural awareness seminars" preach a
message of pure racial poison. One consultant teaches
employees that:

"Euro-Americans are acquisitive, for them ‘the highest value
lies in the object,’ or in obtaining it. This group ‘knows
through counting and measuring.’ For Blacks, Hispanics and
Arabs, ‘the highest value lies in the interpersonal
relationship among men.’ This group knows ‘through symbolic
imagery and rhythm.’ Asians, on the other hand, ‘know
through striving toward transcendence.’"6

Despite corporate diversity training’s expressed goal of
fostering respect for the rights of each individual
employee, cultural "awareness programs" often serve only to
perpetuate racial stereotypes while increasing the
likelihood of racial enmity in the workplace. For example,
when a prominent Washington DC based consultant addressed a
group of 300 Bureau of Labor Statistics employees, he
explained to them:

"We can’t ask non-whites to maintain ‘white’ standards. If a
pair of black employees arrives late for a meeting, it’s not
because they don’t have the company’s best interests in
mind. They may have been chatting in the hallway, developing
those personal relationships."7

Due to such awareness seminars, co-workers are no longer
identifiable by name or interest, but by race, gender or
sexual preference. Once peers begin identifying themselves
racially, culturally or sexually, inherent differences that
once may have been of little concern are suddenly thrust
into the limelight. But this is just what the consultants
want, since out of this manufactured tension comes an
increase in all discrimination and harassment complaints,
furthering the need for diversity consultants.

Occasionally a brave individual simply refuses to bend
before the pressures employed by corporate diversity
departments. On October 11th 2002, the Kodak Corporation, as
part of the company’s continuing "Winning & Inclusive
Culture" campaign, sent out a memo to all employees
regarding the Human Rights Campaign's annual "Coming Out
Day." Among other things, the memo ordered employees to:

"Acknowledge your level of awareness of this topic, and
share your personal willingness to understand. Acknowledge
his/her courage to publicly share this personal information." 8

One employee, 23-year Kodak veteran and devout Christian
Rolf Szabo took offense to the memo and emailed the company
the following response:

"Please do not send this type of information to me anymore,
as I find it disgusting and offensive."9

Mr. Szabo’s right to express his religious beliefs in the
workplace is protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964. The act prohibits discrimination based on race,
color, sex, religion, or national origin. The "sex"
mentioned in Title VII refers to gender based discrimination
against a person. It contains no legal reference to
homosexuality.

However, the corporate thought-police have little use for
Federal Statues. Szabo was immediately reprimanded by his
supervisor, who informed the entire company that,

"our behaviors must align to the Kodak values [as outlined
in the Winning and Inclusive Culture] campaign."10

Szabo was then asked to sign an employee commitment plan
stating he regretted what he had written and outlining steps
to prevent a similar incident from reoccurring. When Szabo
refused to reconcile his Catholic faith with Kodak’s Winning
and Inclusive Program, he was fired.

What is truly terrifying about the Szabo - Kodak incident is
that Szabo was fired not because he violated any law or
statute, but because he rejected the group think mentality
demanded by Kodak. No longer is job performance or company
loyalty sufficient for continued employment; an employee’s
core beliefs must now conform to a Leftist political agenda.


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