Posted on 08/11/2006 12:14:28 PM PDT by freepatriot32
Isn't it ironic that one of the things our enemies, the Islamofascists, hate about America is the very thing that enables them to operate here?
I'm talking about our openness. Our rights to privacy. The many freedoms granted us by the U.S. Constitution. And the protections and even special treatment afforded Muslim organizations in the U.S.
We're a society like no other.
Take for example last week's decision by Federal District Court Judge James Whittemore of Florida, who ruled in favor of ACLU lawyers last week that pat down searches before football games should be prohibited because they violate fans' Fourth Amendment rights. There is "no substantial, real risk," he opined, of terrorists killing people at football stadiums.
I guess he didn't hear about the University of Oklahoma student who tried to enter Sooner Stadium last fall after wiring himself to the gills with explosives. But most Americans didn't, so what's new?
The suit, originating with a Tampa civics teacher who'd obviously rather see Raymond James Stadium blown to smithereens than subject himself to a five second pat-down, could prompt many venues and the NFL to re-evaluate security policies, a seeming victory for jihadists and ACLU fans everywhere.
Meanwhile, in the Meadowlands in New Jersey, a special area has been set aside where Muslim fans can pray during a game. This came in response to allegations of profiling after some startled Giants fans last September grew alarmed when five Muslim men were observed getting up in the middle of the first quarter, congregating in a sensitive area near the stadium's main food prep area and air intake duct, spreading prayer rugs and doing their thing. The men were outraged at being questioned.
Thankfully, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority is making sure they'll pray in comfort this season. Who wants to be accused of profiling, especially since there's no threat to stadiums and we're not at war with Muslims (just certain Muslims who we can't identify until they decide to hijack a plane or shoot up a Jewish Federation building).
If I'm sounding a little frustrated, it's because so many Americans seem to be stuck on moot points regarding those who want to attack us. Instead of focusing on immediate concerns, while world events truly leave them and their arguments behind, they're stuck on WMD and Guantanamo detainees.
These deniers rarely have solutions to any threat, and can't see this conflict for what it really is. Hint: It's not Vietnam.
I wish they'd put the mullahs under a microscope, for once, and discuss their vow to activate terror cells here, or the "apocalyptic surprise" they claim to have in store for America on August 22.
It's been five years since the Islamofascists won their last battle on American soil, and most of us still aren't at war.
Maybe the deniers think all we need is a little football, and the enemy will simply go away.
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Federal District Court Judge James Whittemore
...seems to me we've heard this name before.
his signature is on the order denying food and water to Terri.
Absolutely! Unfortunately, there seem to be a bunch of paranoids posting at FR, easily terrorized by what a bunch of radicals could do, if they chose, and were not stopped by our law enforcement agencies.
The facts show that driving on a highway is by far a greater threat to an individual's life than the actual threat posed by a terrorists - but most individuals drive down the highway with little concern, even engaging in talking on cell phone, conversing with passenger, eating their burger or puffing on a cigarette - or all at once; without concern.
The paranoia leads to the absurd knee-jerk reactions that foul air travel these days. The terrorists are winning by exhibiting a way of attacking the obviously vulnerable infrastructure that makes our life convenient and pleasant. Or by our own imagining of such ways. Shades of Y2K.
The potential for blowing planes out of the sky using easily carried, innocent items on board has been known to terrorists since at least Yousef's Bojinka plot in 1995. We've enjoyed millions of bombing-free, carry-on permitted flights since - one new exposed plot, and the world has a cockamamie reaction that begs the terrorists to do more.
We need to say screw you to the terrorists, by taking appropriate law enforcement steps against them, rather than shooting ourselves in the foot. Catch them and hang them. Else we die the death of a thousand cuts.
The sight of very swift judicial proceedings followed by the conspirators hanging ignominiously for several days as public spectacle would send the right message and dampen the enthusiasm of the enemy.
Or perhaps even better, their chuteless ejection from an aircraft at 30,000 feet over the Atlantic to serve their merciless death wish sans the innocents. The terrifying plummet, for fools with the audacity to threaten our public tranquility, could be filmed by sky divers and broadcast via Al-Jeerzira.
Hmmm Muzzies buying up large amounts of cell phones?.. What will they use them for?... Detonators in football games and malls?... Re-sell for cross country chatt?.. IUD's?.. What?...
Young ladies walking to and from the shower with select-fire weapons slung does tend to help me out as well.
Simple....all flights leave right after a "call to prayer" if they start a praying they get escorted out of the airport instead of getting on their flight
The government should not be protecting us from deoderant. The government should be banish, block, isolate and/or destroy terrorists, those who support them, those who justify them, those who enable them and even those who celebrate them. Just one crushing and indescriminate (War is hell after all) blow in the ME ala Hiroshima or Dresden would corner the market on terror and mercifully end the endless drizzle of blood.
If football was shut down nationwide, the country would experience a great upsurge in productivity.
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