Today, the grassroots good government and legal reform advocate known as POPULAR Inc. (POPULAR) announced that one of its year-end recipients of its bi-annual "Restore Integrity Award" is whistleblower Captain Daniel Hanley.
POPULAR's award in the Grassroots Advocacy Category went to Captain Hanley, national spokesperson of the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association (WAEA), for his "relentless advocacy to ultimately keep the skies safe for millions of air travelers, culminating with a recent commitment by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to consider alleged improprieties attendant to the United Airlines Chapter 11 bankruptcy."
Both Chapter 11 and September 9-11 are issues Captain Hanley and his group expose for justice and crisis prevention. Today, in his ongoing courageous campaign, Captain Hanely highlighted the aircrew professionals who were ignored about 911. They were then persecuted.
What good are Federal Air Marshal pistols if the TSA suppresses honest whistleblower reports within the system and have their careers and families trashed as a result? Just ask Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers Robert Maclean, Spencer Pickard, and Craig Sawyer, and TSA Red Team Leader Bogdan Dzakovic who testified before the 9/11 Commission, but were ignored.
These highly qualified individuals, now targeted for ruination, alert that the standard operating system of officials whitewashing air tragedies plus cover-ups of rogue elements infiltrated into government agencies is setting up the U.S. for another 911 type disaster.
Referring to the recent security leak last week, Captain Hanley had stated, "This egregious act of negligence by those in the upper-echelons of the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration must be held accountable for the most blatant breach of security since 9/11."
ABC News and OE News reports within two weeks of the eight anniversary of theSeptember 11, 2001 mass murder support growing numbers of people globally that concluded that the 9-11 crime was committed by individuals in the U.S., military, government employees, and others who applied a military black operation.
Whistleblowers typically receive little or no financial support, or even familiar understanding of hell they endure after reporting crime so that others are not injured. Captain Hanley is viewed by other whistelblowers as a genuine American hero according to recent emails from them.
Corruption perception increase
Katherine Moore and Nancy Swan co-administer the award program as POPULAR’s Advisory Board President and Vice President, respectively. In June, they characterized the program as “an urgent measure” given a report by Transparency International that overall perception of corruption had increased 8 percent worldwide.
Each POPULAR award recipient of the public sector category is a judge.
Public Sector Category
- Judge Henry L. Lackey for reporting the bribery overture to federal authorities that derailed a seemingly invincible, corrupt segment of the Mississippi legal system led by various “Kings of Torts,” certain powerful lawyers who sullied the noble mission of the plaintiffs’ bar for personal gain.
- Judge Arthur M. Schack for his appropriately strict scrutiny of foreclosure cases before him and corresponding mantra, “(i)f you are going to take away someone’s house, everything should be legal and correct.”
- Judge Arlen Spinner for his bold step of preempting $525,000 in mortgage payments demanded by a California bank “so as to deter it from imposing further mortifying abuse” on a Long Island couple appearing before him in the underlying foreclosure dispute.
Private Sector Category
- Retired U.S. Chief Deputy Marshal Matthew Fogg for his unique insights and public speaking on America's failed War On Drugs, contending "(d)rug prohibition helps the U.S. maintain a racial apartheid prison industrial complex."
- Mr. Alan Lange for his balanced expose´ on the Mississippi judicial bribery and racketeering cases of Paul Minor and Dickie Scruggs, now chronicled and published with Lange’s coauthor as the book “Kings of Torts.”
Moore and Swan stated that they were delighted that judges comprise half of our year-end award recipients.
Swan explained that “judges Lackey, Schack, and Spinner resisted powerful private interests without waiting for a groundswell of public support for their actions. Such quiet, brave displays of integrity are particularly refreshing in our society of Terri-Schiavo-Jena-6-like quests for justice.”
Moore emphasized that "all of POPULAR's award recipients have taken or otherwise pursued one or more specific acts or measures to eliminate significant inequity, waste, fraud, abuse, or other public and/or private sector corruption in America." POPULAR reportedly defines corruption as "any illegal or unethical conduct contributing to the systemic malfunction of government, commerce, and/or democracy in America as contemplated by the U.S. Constitution."
POPULAR will mail its year-end award recipients an encased certificate, commemorating their award. All but the judges were emailed before the official notification and congratulated for receiving the award. POPULAR will announce its third round of award recipients in June 2010.
To learn about former “Restore Integrity Award” recipients, visit http://www.popular4people.org/
To learn more about the plight of whistleblowers and fired aircrew whistleblowers that continue their work to make the skies safer, listen to Captain Hanley on BlogTalkRadio live or to the show archives.
Comments
Sincere congratulations to Captain Dan Hanley. It is good to see his and the other recipients efforts, sacrifices and courage recognized.
Dan and his organization have emerged as THE voice of airline professionals attempting to keep our skies safe and stop the campaign to silence those who are willing to speak out on the issues. Please, everyone go to the WAEA site.
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