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If your 3 year old were groped in Sunday School like this - you'd go to the police... but when the government does it, what recourse do you have? Anybody been lucky enough to go through this "enhanced pat down" BS lately?
A couple thoughts:
How about wearing a bathrobe and flipflops to the airport... or better yet a Scottish Kilt and Tartan Sash...and nothing else!
Well we dodged another bullet! Though details remain unclear, a man intent on terrorism attempted to incinerate/blowup a Northwest (Delta) flight as it made it's approach into Detroit on Christmas Day. The media has not disclosed his religious affiliation as of midday on the 26th, but there is the usual speculation that he may be a "radicalized Presbyterian" or a "mad Buddist". The man originated his travels in Nigeria on KLM Airlines, and connected to Northwest Airlines in Amsterdamistan. The suspect had lived and studied for a period of time in Londonistan, and is reported to have recently visited the peace-loving country of Yemen. Authorities are disclosing that he has been on a watch list for the last two years as having suspicious ties to murky figures of no partcular religious affiliation. As to why this man with the funny sounding (for a Presbyterian) name waited 7 hours aboard the transAtlantic flight before attempting to explode his device over the Detroit metro area? - it is a mystery. Experts agree that an exploding A-330 would actually have done little damage to most parts of Detroit, and any fires ignited by a crash may have gone unnoticed for days.
TSA officials caution passengers to expect more rigorous screening at airports, especially for people with a military background, or from the midwest or lower Alabama.... as they are already highly suspect. The elderly are urged to leave at home all blood pressure and heart medicines that could be construed as chemicals possibly used in bombmaking. Any passengers with physical infirmities requiring wheelchairs or crutches are urged to leave an extra 8 hours early in anticipation of delays at airport screenings. But on a happy note, able bodied passengers traveling to or from Yemen (on vacation) should not expect any delays!
Shortly after Major Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" and gunned down dozens of our men and women in a terroristic rampage, the Administration was quick to caution Americans to not "jump to conclusions." Today his fleshy hedgehog of a Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, was out talking the Obama talk - meeting with groups across the country to try to "deflect any backlash against American Muslims." Excuse me? Our heroes have yet to be properly remembered and put to rest, and all Obama can think about is damage control? What's it gonna take, a nuke to a major city to wake these assholes up?
PALERMO (Reuters) - A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot.
The 2005 crash at sea off Sicily left survivors swimming for their lives, some clinging to a piece of the fuselage that remained floating after the ATR turbo-prop aircraft splintered upon impact.
A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors also said the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land the plane instead trying to reach a nearby airport.
Another five employees of Tuninter, a subsidiary of Tunisair, were sentenced to between eight and nine years in jail by the court, in a verdict handed down Monday.
The seven accused, who were not in court, will not spend time in jail until the appeals process has been exhausted.
(Writing by Phil Stewart)
