This month’s Conspiracyworld.com Black Boot Award goes to...Norman Mineta, President George Bush’s Secretary of Transportation, and John Magaw, his underling, head of airport security for the United States. Mineta and Magaw went before a congressional committee and strongly opposed training and arming airline pilots with handguns.

It is evidently the Bush Administration’s view that during a hijacking incident, as hijackers armed with guns, knives, box cutters and other weapons systematically shoot and hack away at passengers, killing them all one by one, the pilots should be comfortably locked up in their cozy cab, twiddling their thumbs.

Mineta’s deputy, Magaw, until recently, just happened to be Bill Clinton’s director of the Gestapo agency known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). While holding that post, John Magaw oversaw the ATF’s coverup of the Waco Branch Davidian massacre. Magaw lied back then over and over to the media and to Congress, and he and his jack-booted thugs at ATF repeatedly attacked innocent U.S. citizens in SWAT raids and other atrocities.

Magaw, of course, is a rabid opponent of the 2nd Amendment and a long-time backer of gun control legislation. He and the Bush crowd worry that if pilots are armed it will send what they think is the "wrong message" to the public—that guns can, indeed, protect.

Interesting isn’t it? Why would Bush, who claims to be pro-gun, appoint Clinton era gun control freaks to such powerful posts in his Administration?