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Cast

 


The Cast

The cast of Please Remove Your Shoes is composed of dedicated professionals from the trenches of US Government. Current and former FAA and TSA managers, inspection team leaders, and Federal Air Marshals, the principal commentators for the film have seen the dark side of government laziness, corruption, and cronyism just as they have tried to change it for our benefit from within. Thoroughly dedicated public servants, they offer a striking contrast to the nepotistic management within the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration to whom they report. They all come from a background of military and law enforcement, and they expect to be treated as professionals, and lash out when they are not.

Divided into three pre 911 and three post 911 federal participants, they are all frustrated with the inflexibility and bureaucratic inability of government to listen to “the field,” as they initially try to prevent 911 and later to prevent a repeat of 911. They are at times angry, at times sarcastic, though always instructional, and  clear about their motives. “I don’t work for the TSA,” explains one participant. “I work for a farmer in Kansas, a waitress in LA I’ve never met, and a money manager in Boston I’ve never seen. These are the people who pay my salary, and my oath of office is for them, not some bureaucrat in Washington...not even the President of the United States.”

Supplementing our six key figures are an officer from the US Justice Dept. two seasoned congressman, including the chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and a Washington reporter, who all add gravity and factual detail to the stories of our “seasoned six” and the accounts from two passengers of two harrowing incidents which will make you question whether the seven billion dollars we pay each year for TSA has bought us anything at all besides abuse and humiliation at the nation’s airports.
                   

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