Massport and Hacks (My Title)

Sure, maybe it could have happened at any airport, but the fact is, two of the four planes were hijacked out of Logan, and was anyone really surprised that the terrorists were able to infiltrate hack-infested Massport?

It's hard to figure out how to thwart terrorist attacks when you're drunk on a party boat with topless bimbos, or too busy trying to put your galpal in the London office. . . .

And I'm sorry, but are the FBI agents in the Boston office capable of anything other than blowing off murderers who want to give themselves up and then lying about it, or threatening one of their wives, or trying to scam a Home Depot out of a tractor in Virginia while at an FBI training mission in Quantico. . . . ?

And that's just the last month for the Boston FBI office. In many respects, this hasn't been a particularly scandal-ridden month for the Boston FBI. At least they didn't frame anybody for a murder they didn't commit. Not that we know of, anyway.

I keep thinking about Logan security. You always read those posted warnings about the dangers at the Port au Prince airport - how much better is Logan?

``The last time I flew,'' said a guy from Cambridge, ``I was checked through by a fat man wearing a turban who could not speak English.''

Maybe Archie Bunker was right. He said the way to stop hijacking was to let everyone on board carry a gun.

Now, let's stipulate that the airlines themselves are - or were - supposed to provide security at Logan.

But there is an organization that is supposed to provide police, as opposed to security, services, and that is the Massachusetts State Police. Specifically, the MSP's Troop F, or, as they are more commonly known, F Troop.

You don't have to spend much time at Logan before you realize that your average F Troop trooper is a little, well, long in the tooth.

``They don't issue cars over there,'' said one disgruntled Statie. ``They issue walkers.''

Obviously, F Troop is about to get a lot bigger - and younger. But the damage is already done.

So why exactly has Logan become a retirement home for law enforcement? In the MSP, you ``bid'' for assignments, and they're handed out on the basis of seniority.

And F Troop isn't on the regular state line-item budget. They're paid by Massport, and if the Massport hacks have the dough to treat themselves to booze cruises and run a London office for galpals and rent XXX-rated movies in their hotel rooms on the road, you can assume they're spending like drunken hacks, if not sailors, on F Troop too.

At Logan, there's more overtime, and more paid details, than anywhere else. It's an even bigger pit than Troop E, the Turnpike.

It's not like this lax security at Massport is anything new. Back in the 1980s, serial-killing gangster Whitey Bulger tried to take 100 large in cash through the metal detector at the international terminal.

A conscientious member of F Troop tried to halt the hood, whose brother at the time was the president of the state Senate, which made him the de facto governor of the commonwealth.

Whitey grabbed the bag of cash and bolted for the exit, then threw it to a guy named Kevin. When the Statie collared him, Whitey cursed him and basically asked, Do you know who I am?

The next day the Statie found out. The executive director of Massport, a despicable Dukakoid named Dave Davis, showed up demanding a copy of his report. The heat was on - how dare anyone try to prevent the Senate president's gangster brother, with 21 recorded murders notched on his belt, from committing federal crimes? The stand-up trooper was quickly transferred to Siberia, and later killed himself.

That's Logan airport security for you. Some of the World Trade Center terrorists are still at large. So is Whitey Bulger.

That about somes it up for the Politicians of Massachusetts.

Some really sleazy people up there.

Wonder why they are not dancing in the streets up there?

BTW has the Nation of Islam said anything about this bombing?

I covered this on another thread, but I lived in Massachusetts for one year- I vowed NEVER to go back! The Mafia ran everything worth running, and corruption was as bad as I have ever seen in scumbag third-world countries (and I've seen quite a few of those!).

My company would pay all expenses for me and my wife to go to a big conference in Boston next year- but I told them "No, thanks". I would rather eat a big, hairy bug than set foot in that miserable, Godforsaken place again. (Bugs aren't so bad, if you chew fast and swallow quickly...)

"...if you chew fast and swallow quickly."

Also a great way to train Junior to chew with his mouth closed.

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