Posted on 09/13/2019 10:17:36 AM PDT by Coleus
After the 9/11 attacks, we began to hear that cliche about how “the terrorists will have won” if we let ourselves become so consumed with fear that we no longer act rationally.
Well, the future is now.
That’s my reaction to that decision to cancel the annual Labor Day parade in South Plainfield because a guy left some fireworks in a bar in Sea Bright.
When I got an email from the Governor’s Office Monday morning saying this year’s parade had been canceled, I figured it might be because of the weather.
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Nope. It soon turned out that the parade had been canceled because a guy from South Plainfield had left some fireworks in a bar in Sea Bright as a present for his favorite band.
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“It’s ridiculous,” he said. “It’s one firework. I know they’re illegal in the state of New Jersey, but it’s a firework. It’s not a bomb.”
That may be a distinction without a difference. Cross the state line into Pennsylvania and you will encounter billboards for stores that sell fireworks so big they might as well be bombs.
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“the terrorists will have won”
They won with the putrid knee jerk Patriot Act, “Homeland Security” and TSA.
I agree, we lost many of our rights and liberties and now have a much-stronger Federal Govt. Power to the govt. instead of power to the people.
now let’s check grandma’s diaper for weapons
I realized “the terrorists won” the first time I had to strip off my shoes, belt, sweater, ring and had my fingernail clippers confiscated the first time I went through TSA security after 9/11
A big, popular church fair in this area was just canceled because someone sent an anonymous whackjob threat letter to the Bishop.
Roger that, bigly !
“It’s ridiculous,” he said. “It’s one firework. I know they’re illegal in the state of New Jersey, but it’s a firework. It’s not a bomb.”
Fireworks or bomb? Semi-auto or assault rifle? You stand accused by the side that writes the definitions and checks the facts! Good luck in prison! (Sarcasm OFF)
Absolutely agreed. You'll find plenty of people here though, who still support the gropers.
New Jersey? I left that place in 1988. I thought they were made of tougher stuff, but now they are challenging Minnesota as the biggest wusses. A firecracker in Sea Bright cancelled an event in South Plainfield. The two places are 35 miles apart!
30 years you look at someone from New Jersey the wrong way, and you might have a fight on your hands. What is it today, someone runs to his safe space, bawling for Mommy?
I am so happy I moved to Texas.
My wife went to pay the school taxes yesterday. At the county clerk’s office they confiscated her 1-1/4” coupon snipping scissors attached to her keys. Why would they bother a 70 year old white haired woman like that?
Good thing they never watched Godfather 3—otherwise they would confiscate eyeglasses!
Don’t forget the location - New Jersey - where Republicans, with a few exceptions, are indistinguishable from all of its Demo domestic enemies.
Why would they bother a 70 year old white haired woman like that? >>
because they can
because they don’t care
because they are dumb
because they will never go after the bad guy as they are yellow.
The terrorists won when mosques were open for business as usual on September 12th, 2001. Now we have an elected congressmuslim calling our duly elected president a motherf$%&er
YEP. And every war we get in, the USA and Europe get another huge wave of “migrants” from those places. Strange.
That’s right; somehow our “victories” include getting swamped with primitive dangerous foreigners...
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