What-If Politics of Flight 93

Washington Times, Insight on the News, "Fair Comment" ^ | Insight, issue of 10/15/02 | John Armor

[Congressman Billybob]

Thought FReepers would share the pleasure of a FReeper article in the mainstream media.

[Argus]

This piece is right on the money. If the passengers on Fl. 93 had been of a different type - say the Susan Sontag Book Club or the UC Berkeley Debating Team - the White House or Capitol would be a heap of smoking ruins now. This country is lucky to still have citizens of the calibre of Todd Beamer and company, but when every institution in our national life, from public grade schools on up, seems determined to leach all the initiative, patriotism and self-reliance out of our people, how long will we continue to have them?

[Psycho_Bunny]

Like the leaders of France: No need to pose the question. You are cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

[vrwconspiracist]

When I see the umbrella, the name Neville Chamberlain comes to mind...

[TonyInOhio]

Well written, and with a punch. Thanks for sharing it here, John.

Tony

[Cicero]

When I saw "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," I knew we were in FreeRepublic territory for sure.

[GWfan]

Bump. I loved it.

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[martian_22]

I have a sort of political what if.

What if our administration had the information and opportunity to intercept 19 Saudi nationals at Boston Airport on 911. They were arrested and found only to have a few box cutters. I think the political outcry of profiling, etc. would have been deafening.

How many of these type of events have already been dicouraged or thwarted? We will never know.

Thanks for the reminder. Bump.

[RAY]

Thanks for the post!

[MattinNJ]

A powerful, lucid, and brilliant article. Magnificent.

[GaryMontana]

Huge BUMP

[Congressman Billybob]

Thanks for your comment. I fought very hard through various sources to get this piece published in the mainstream media, preferably in Washington. Furthermore, I wanted it published while the "debates" in both Congress and at the UN on the subject of Iraq, were still going on.

As the saying goes, even a blind pig finds an acorn now and again. This time the effort to write the right words and get them where they might matter, worked. Now it's back to the drawing boards for the next assualt on the bastions of abused power.

I'm still working out ways of getting "to Restore Trust in America" in the hands of at least 100,000 committed Americans who will use it as intended, as a weapon against business as usual in government and in the private sector. (See the last link, below.)

Congressman Billybob

Click for "Oedipus and the Democrats"

Click for "Til Death Do Us Part."

Click for "to Restore Trust in America"

[Machias Liberty 1775]

Excellent Article! Brand new Freeper (tonight) but long time lurker. I have cut and pasted the article into an e-mail and forwarded to dozens of my friends and family and urged them to do the same!

The one question really makes swaying the undecided easy and even gives hard core liberals food for thought!

[ladyinred]

Excellent. When will the book be available? I don't want to miss it, if this is an example of your writing. Thanks for sharing this, and all of your talents with us here on FR.

[ladyinred]

Welcome to Free Republic! Glad to meet you here on this terrific thread!

[ladyinred]

Ping for an excellent article.

[Man of the Right]

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys. I'm going to use this phrase until the French start calling themselves that. This guy can write!

[Plutarch]

As the saying goes, even a blind pig finds an acorn now and again.

How often in his profession had it been the same-- the tiny acorn of coincidence that soared into the mighty oak whose branches darkened the sky.

Ian Fleming

[JulieRNR21]

BRAVO....one of your very best columns.....I'll be sending it to all my cyberfriends!