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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Michelle Malkin :: Townhall.com Columnist
Still Handling Homeland Security With a 9/10 Attitude
by Michelle Malkin
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Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has done us all a favor. But is it enough to rouse a nation in permanent snooze-button mode?

The arrest of Zazi, a Colorado-based Afghan airport shuttle driver who counterterrorism officials believe may have been plotting bomb attacks on New York City mass transit trains, raised alerts on rail lines across the country. A joint FBI-Department of Homeland Security assessment issued Monday warned law enforcement agencies about the use of improvised explosive devices against passenger trains overseas. Zazi was allegedly trained in manufacturing liquid explosives with hydrogen peroxide -- the same material used in the London subway attacks in 2005. FBI/DHS analysts have recommended random sweeps and patrols at rail stations and terminals as deterrents.

The bust reminded America that while the annual September 11 memorials are over, the jihadi threat looms. Yet, homeland security remains crippled by a 9/10 mentality.

Arguing with Idiots By Glenn Beck

Remember: The New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the New York Police Department a few years ago to try to stop random bag searches. The civil liberties absolutists are against random searches because they constitute "unreasonable" invasions of privacy. They're against targeted searches because they amount to racial, religious or ethnic "profiling." And they're against across-the-board searches because they lack "individualized suspicion."

The ACLU homeland security strategy: Do nothing.

The suit against NYPD's random bag search policy ultimately failed, but litigation both real and threatened continues to tie the hands of homeland security and law enforcement officials. This summer, a judge cleared the way for a lawsuit against federal and Minneapolis airport officers by the infamous "flying imams." They are the six Muslim clerics whose suspicious behavior -- fanning out in the cabin before take-off, refusing to sit in their assigned seats, requesting seat-belt extenders, which they placed on the floor -- led to their removal by a U.S. Airways crew in 2006. Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Sep 24, 2009 - 10:16 AM EST
obama understands EXACTLY . . .
what he is doing. He said that he wold "side with the muslims" during any conflict. His (foreign) allegiances are well known.
What is needed in this country is a "star chamber" type operation to go after those like the "flying imams" and other enemies of our way of life. muslims wil only behave when they know that they are targeted and have to "grow eyes in the back of their heads" to stay "above room temperature".
If these policies were implemented, ANY muslim talking of committing a "terrorist act" against any American would be executed BY HIS OWN PEOPLE.
You know, we could use the same type of system to "weed out" our treasonous politicians and unelected, unvetted "commissars" and "czars".
In both cases, it would be unnecessary to "correct" anyone. Just the fear of possible "retribution" would be enough to keep them on the "straight and narrow".
It seems that in today's America, the "rule of law" is whatever the "powers that be" deem them to be.
When we have politicians admitting that most of what they do is "outside constitutional purview or principles" (most of what they do is unconstitutional) IT IS TIME TO ACT.
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Reply # 2
Date: Sep 24, 2009 - 8:23 AM EST
mike from tucson y MyOpine


mike from tucson
Location: AZ
Reply # 283
Date: Sep 23, 2009 - 9:10 PM EST Ratas y Ratones
Thank you for the fine comments fellow interlocutor. You must know that the constant humming and drumming help keep my writings below the Sainted Ray B's 451.
Man, making sense of this latest bunch of Chi-pols is like reading a Rorschach from the poopie stains in King Kong's biffy.

~~~

Bradbury was one of my favorites also, along with Azimov before he became totally senile in his dotage.

"...reading a Rorschach from the poopie stains in King Kong's biffy."

I gaze into my Crusted Ball.
I see disaster roaring down the four lane highway to hell.
I see vast quantities of Monkey Dung about to hit the fan...
Alas and alack, my Crusted Ball just went blank.

The Rat
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MyOpine
Location: CA
Reply # 258
Date: Sep 23, 2009 - 4:36 PM EST Ratas y Ratones

Are you implying that this smells like a Reichstag Fire?

http://www.openmarket.org/2008/07/15/schumer-caused-banking -crisis-not-ots/

~~~

MyOpine,

Yes, something like that.

The Rat, USN 190-1966


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