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Mohammed Atta & his federal loan officer (A reminder that some people learned nothing from 9/11)
National Post via Free Republic ^ | June 10, 2002 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/10/2009 7:17:04 AM PST by beaversmom

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To: Scarlett156

I wonder how many people do recognise the truth, but just keep quiet because the legal system has made citizens liable to all kinds of repercussions for speaking the truth? The “protected” classes know the law is on their side, and they use it for petty “vengeance” on those who won’t condone their perversion or evil, even when the person won’t speak. It’s enough for a member of a protected “victim” class to know that someone thinks they’re wrong. We are already into the phase of “thought crime”.


21 posted on 11/10/2009 8:43:06 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: William Tell
Liberals expect to be rewarded for their intentions of making the world a peaceful place.

I can't even give many of them that much credit anymore. The reality has been too plain for too long. I really believe that now many of them are actively against America, whites, Christians, capitalism, democracy. They all must have a superiority complex, because they all believe that they will be in the small ruling elite which will be immune to the repercussions. One small satisfaction is in knowing how surprised they will be when they learn they're not exempt.
22 posted on 11/10/2009 8:47:40 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: beaversmom

Holy guacamole. I thought “wow..” then I looked for the “satire” tag, or the “Onion” byline.

REALLY? I’m sorry, if someone repeatedly asks what would happen if he cut my head off, and stole all the money from me, he’d have a very quick answer. “You’d be dead from lead poisoning, so it wouldn’t matter”.


23 posted on 11/10/2009 8:51:37 AM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: William Tell
“I disagree. 9/11 was supposed to be that time and the World Trade Center that place.”

I certainly agree with you that 9/11 SHOULD HAVE BEEN that crossroads......but, as we all have seen, it was not. Like adolescents, the memory and agony felt across the land regarding that occasion has faded with time, and has put us back into a place of semi-retarded complacency. We were hoorah for only a few months before we reverted back to a pre-911 sense of security.

One huge mistake that our leaders, including Mr. Bush, did at that time after the attack was to tell us to resume life as usual. The message was “Don't worry...we'll take care of you.” More reliance on a PC government which has lead us to where we are today. How's that workin’ out for you?

“...the majority of liberals would have blood dripping from the slit throats of their children before even becoming aware that there is a problem.” These are the same liberals who don't think twice about aborting babies at and beyond a viability date! Methinks you have way too much faith in Lib-kind!

“Reality plays no part in that expectation.” You won't get anything resembling disagreement on that one, FRiend!

Militant

24 posted on 11/10/2009 9:24:30 AM PST by militant2 (I may not agree with everything you say, but......hell, I don't agree with anything you say!)
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To: ronniesgal
A similar situation occurred in 1962-1963. I was in USAF pilot training and, on the base was an Afghan student who was also in a “could not fail” situation. He was just “washed back” from class to class. He did not join our class but was leapfrogged to a class behind. He did solo once and it was such a disaster (had to break out every other airplane in the parallel runway traffic patterns) that he was “dual only” for as long as I remember. I am sure that he would still be there today but the base was closed long ago.

We were told by our instructors that to send him back, a failure, would cause a State Department problem crisis!

25 posted on 11/10/2009 9:44:08 AM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: beaversmom

Same people obviously investigated hasan at Ft. Hood


26 posted on 11/10/2009 4:24:24 PM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
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To: beaversmom; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...
Incredible Mark Steyn article from June 10, 2002, and re-posted on FR on November 10, 2009. Ties in perfectly with the Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan situation.

Thanks, beaversmom, for re-posting this article. Political correctness is literally continuing to kill innocent Americans.

Excerpt:

But Ms. Bryant didn't think Mr. Atta was sick. The safe-breaking, the throat- slitting, the fake specs ... why, he was just being charmingly multicultural! "I felt that he was trying to make the cultural leap from the country that he came from," she says. "I was attempting, in every manner I could, to help him make his relocation into our country as easy for him as I could." Unfortunately, his imaginative business plan for a crop-duster capable of crop-dusting Texas was frustrated by the unduly onerous restrictions and bureaucratic torpor of the USDA program. By late summer, Mr. Atta and his chums had concluded the government was never going to buy them their own twin-props and they'd have to make do with the aircraft that were already up there. So they switched their flight training courses from small planes to large jet simulators, and told their instructors to skip all that takeoff and landing stuff.

Original Free Republic thread from 2002: Mark Steyn -- Mohammed Atta and his federal loan officer

Another current (11/16/09) related thread:

How military missed signs (Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan)

27 posted on 11/18/2009 9:41:47 AM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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To: nutmeg

PC will kill millions - not just a handful at Fort Hood...


28 posted on 11/18/2009 10:42:16 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare - slush fund scam that would make Bernie Madoff blush.)
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To: nutmeg

PC will kill millions - not just a handful at Fort Hood... hold on to your seats, the ride’s just getting started.


29 posted on 11/18/2009 10:42:42 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare - slush fund scam that would make Bernie Madoff blush.)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


30 posted on 11/18/2009 11:13:20 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: nutmeg

You are welcome. Thanks for re-pinging it.


31 posted on 11/18/2009 12:09:22 PM PST by beaversmom
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