Congressman Ron Paul gives his thoughts on Yemen, the attempted airline bombing, the motivations of Al Qaeda, the radicalization of the Middle East, and the negation of our liberties to government provided "security."
Exactly right. I can't say it often enough; bureaucrats are only responsive to their charter. There is no common sense. So they take away your fingernail clippers; idiots. Can you see someone running down the aisle brandishing fingernail clippers and threatening to take over the airplane?
Airlines have the vested interest and should be in charge of their own security. They will not be restricted by stupid rules and can implement a "know your customer" policy. Further, the entire economy will not be required to pay for a security system that does not work anyway.
It is just more government and less liberty. I fly myself. They can go fish.
I am amazed at the American public and their predictability. Reports indicate that this man was not only on watch lists, but his father also went to an American Embassy and alerted them to the probability that his son was going to do something like this. Again, our government chose to ignore what was right in their faces, and again, the American people eat up more loss of liberty. Airline passengers since this incident occurred are praising the government for the long lines at check in, the inability to visit the restroom in the last hour of flight and the "stepped-up security" in general....
When I lived in NM, a pipe broke in Albuquerque and the city was responsible for fixing it. They ignored the leak for months, and eventually, when the water was gushing uncontrollably, the citizens began to complain. They wanted something DONE! In the end, the "city" was fined for ignoring the leak, and the people CHEERED. Very few people understood that it was THE CITIZENS that were punished!
This is much the same as our airport security, and once again, the irony is lost on WAY too many people.
When I first heard of the event, my first thought was that the UnIntelligence Agencies are involved.
If he was on their watchlist, I wouldn't be surprised if they helped him get dressed and pass the TSA.
One of the FoxBusiness stooges said today that all the people he and his producer interviewed in the security line at O'hare in O'bombaville would be fine with being body-scanned, as invasive as it is.
You are very true and right. In the Netherlands, a couple years ago the government took over the airline screening!
It is so wrong that today we are reacting to this attack and the innocent passenger will pay the price, again.
Mr President, instead of spending the money in re-evaluating the "no fly" list, can you please fire the person who did not communicate the intelligence along the way! That person made a terrible mistake and does not have any clue what security and protection means. If people did their jobs right this could have been avoided. I guess the person had to celebrate Thanksgiving around November 20th and took the week off. Well Al Qaeda doesn't take vacation, like government workers do.
Posted 12/28/09 6:34 PM Paul Hogan Middle Village, NY
Ron Paul is the only politician with the backbone to give us a no nonsense assessment of a situation. The fact that people go along with the party line only proves that common sense is the least common of the senses. Why does the government need to make flying more miserable than it already is when they can simply find out who dropped the ball and fire him or her. Eventually, we'll all be forced to fly in hospital gowns or bathing suits, we may catch pneumonia, but at least the terrorists won't get us.
Dr. Paul is also correct that we need to keep an eye on foreign policy. The State Media Propaganda Machine has been beating the war drums for several months, we're pretty much in Pakistan, we're picking a fight with Iran and now we're getting ourselves involved with Yemen. Does anybody really believe that sending troops into more countries is going to accomplish anything? Spreading our military thinner that in already is is only going to bankrupt us and get more people killed. Of course, none of the people making these 'tough decisions' are in any physical danger.
The "terrorist" was escorted onto the plane by "security" and a man was video-taping the WHOLE flight. Two words. Set-up.
Posted 12/28/09 7:15 PM BruceKoerber Cedar Rapids, IA
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Monday, December 28, 2009
How Best To Make Airlines Secure!
When will the customers of the airlines demand their right to be protected by the airline? It would be remarkable if people refused to fly unless and until the airlines take over control of securing the safety of the planes.
It goes like this: "I refuse to fly on any airline that is not protected solely by the property owner. I want myself and my property to be protected by the property owner, not by some bumbling bureaucracy with no direct interest in the property of the airline."
If enough people correspond directly with the airlines, telling them why buying airline tickets will come to a halt, then the slow nationalization of the airlines will come to a halt. This will force the hand of the fascist/socialists, causing them to either back off or blatantly accelerate their nationalization.
It will either be a victory for the cause of human rights/property rights and of liberty or it will be a clear signal to the American people that the unConstitutional coup is nothing but a criminal ring of economic terrrorists that need to be stopped.
@4:00, the smartest thing I've heard RP admit in awhile:
"I'm convinced that one of the main problems we have is that we've turned over a very important function to the government. The government isn't capable of doing what they're supposed to do."
crazy U.S. world interventionist policy + crazy international terrorists = less freedoms and continued global economic depression.
Soon passengers will be required to go into changing rooms to ware approved passenger flight overalls equipped with depends diapers for each flight.
Imagine, I'm suppose to ware diapers at my age??
OMG !!
Airline flying has become sucha major hassle to journey.
Posted 12/29/09 12:56 AM Electrichead Cedar Hill, TX
Man, I could go on and on about this. You know, the footnote at the bottom of the page that Ol' Tom is is credited with, pretty much sums up the situation. A couple hundred years of Enlightenment, causing birth of this great nation, then 100 years or so of economic growth and prosperity, and intellectually speaking we have been slipping back gradually are are becoming the victims of our own stupidity. We are officially in the Age of Un-Enlightenment. Oh, sure .. technology is great, but without philosophical and social advancement, what good is it?
And its an Age of Arrogance. We can't possibly conceive that people a couple if not several hundred years ago were actually better educated than we are today.
I don't think I'll be flying anywhere anytime soon.
Posted 12/29/09 08:22 AM Paul Hogan Middle Village, NY
Electrichead,
Great observation, I could go on and on about that as well.
This is sick. So, some on here actually believe we have terrorists that are capable of doing damage to the US? Pathetic. What a con. AGW = terror.
How might this 'war' on 'terror' end? It can't. It is a money pit and a FEAR factory. Change FP if you want to stop pissing people off.
Now, we are so far beyond reality, I doubt the masses can wake up. What a shame for all mankind that we were duped into this via FEAR Manipulation.
No, I don't believe .00001% of the world's population is such a threat, when a percentage of those are just total idiots masquerading as 'important' fighters of american satan... blah, blah, blah.
All of this and ALL of the US govs BS must come to an end and I'll probably die before that.
How do we fight back... stop flying and enjoy what you have nearby... if you must fly, that is different.
Then, guess what? Bailouts for the airlines. Don't submit and when they poll us, tell them, it isn't worth giving up any liberty to fly. The failings of the gov and their policies have destroyed the economy, not any terrorist and not any citizen.
Airport security appears to focus mainly on preventing potentially dangerous passengers boarding flights. However, Security may be weakest at inspecting air cargo, placed in large storage areas on passenger and cargo planes: packaged products are less likely to be torn apart to be searched at random as that would delay shipping. About ten years ago it was reported a major U.S. airline was shipping large amounts of illegal-drugs to America; the drugs were hidden in food service carts brought onto planes. It appeared airline employees might be involved. It was not reported how the drugs on the planes were removed after landing in America. If airport security cannot discover large quantities of drugs brought onto planes headed for America or being removed from a plane after landing in the U.S., how can airport security find all hidden explosives in Air Cargo? Perhaps Air Cargo needs to be better inspected to protect everyone.
Homeland Security is now using new Screening Technology at airports to track a :Set Of Involuntary Physiological Reaction" that might slip by a human observer to detect when a person “harbors malicious intent” as opposed to when someone is late for a flight or annoyed by something else. This new Screening Technology might actually help sophisticated terrorists avoid detection at checkpoints, where personnel have become psychologically dependent on this technology to stop suspects. Consider: the Russian KGB successfully trained spies to monitor their own physiological reactions to pass lie detector tests. KGB training included covertly filming their own agents’ “body language” during a mission; then showing the film to the agent so he or she could review their body language in a given situation. KGB agents were taught to both monitor and Implement Different Body Language to prevent theirs from being read.
We should not underestimate the motivation and determination of Islam to creat a worldwide caliphate. Our political and military muscle in the region may serve to unify jihadists, but they are driven by their religion.
From ISLAM 101, by Gregory M. Davis
Contrary to the widespread insistence that true Islam is pacific even if a handful of its adherents are violent, the Islamic sources make clear that engaging in violence against non-Muslims is a central and indispensable principle to Islam. Islam is less a personal faith than a political ideology that exists in a fundamental and permanent state of war with non-Islamic civilizations, cultures, and individuals. The Islamic holy texts outline a social, governmental, and economic system for all mankind. Those cultures and individuals who do not submit to Islamic governance exist in an ipso facto state of rebellion with Allah and must be forcibly brought into submission. The misbegotten term "Islamo-fascism" is wholly redundant: Islam itself is a kind of fascism that achieves its full and proper form only when it assumes the powers of the state
From the Koran
9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat {the Islamic ritual prayers}), and give Zakat {alms}, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.
We should not underestimate the motivation and determination of Islam to creat a worldwide caliphate. Our political and military muscle in the region may serve to unify jihadists, but they are driven by their religion.
From ISLAM 101, by Gregory M. Davis
Contrary to the widespread insistence that true Islam is pacific even if a handful of its adherents are violent, the Islamic sources make clear that engaging in violence against non-Muslims is a central and indispensable principle to Islam. Islam is less a personal faith than a political ideology that exists in a fundamental and permanent state of war with non-Islamic civilizations, cultures, and individuals. The Islamic holy texts outline a social, governmental, and economic system for all mankind. Those cultures and individuals who do not submit to Islamic governance exist in an ipso facto state of rebellion with Allah and must be forcibly brought into submission. The misbegotten term "Islamo-fascism" is wholly redundant: Islam itself is a kind of fascism that achieves its full and proper form only when it assumes the powers of the state
From the Koran
9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat {the Islamic ritual prayers}), and give Zakat {alms}, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.
We should not underestimate the motivation and determination of Islam to creat a worldwide caliphate. Our political and military muscle in the region may serve to unify jihadists, but they are driven by their religion.
From ISLAM 101, by Gregory M. Davis
Contrary to the widespread insistence that true Islam is pacific even if a handful of its adherents are violent, the Islamic sources make clear that engaging in violence against non-Muslims is a central and indispensable principle to Islam. Islam is less a personal faith than a political ideology that exists in a fundamental and permanent state of war with non-Islamic civilizations, cultures, and individuals. The Islamic holy texts outline a social, governmental, and economic system for all mankind. Those cultures and individuals who do not submit to Islamic governance exist in an ipso facto state of rebellion with Allah and must be forcibly brought into submission. The misbegotten term "Islamo-fascism" is wholly redundant: Islam itself is a kind of fascism that achieves its full and proper form only when it assumes the powers of the state
From the Koran
9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
9:5. Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikun {unbelievers} wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat {the Islamic ritual prayers}), and give Zakat {alms}, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.
The good doctor couldn't have said it any better. Right after this happened I watched the blame game and frantic reaction those "in charge" had. All the while completely ignoring the underlying reason these things happen in the first place. Say goodbye to even more of your individual rights... our government is a joke.
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