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Air Tran Flight 297 Incident (event documentation by chaplain)
Musings of an Esposito ^ | 11-26-09 | Dr. Keith Robinson, Houston Regional Community Chaplain Corps

Posted on 12/04/2009 10:45:07 AM PST by STARWISE

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Steve Gill spoke to Tedd Petruno, the passenger who wrote the original description of this event for an hour, and here interviews Dr. Keith Robinson, another AirTran passenger, about the AirTran Flt 297 events he learned:

Scroll down the podcast list to this to hear it, and go to the .. 3:35 .. mark:

Steve Gill - December 3, 2009 Hr 3
LIVE from the Opryland Hotel and Convention Center; D.

1 posted on 12/04/2009 10:45:09 AM PST by STARWISE
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To: penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; April Lexington; ...

~~Ping!


2 posted on 12/04/2009 10:47:22 AM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: Quix

FYI


3 posted on 12/04/2009 10:52:15 AM PST by Blogger
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To: STARWISE

My method of dealing with these “passengers” would ensure that this type of disruption NEVER happens again.


4 posted on 12/04/2009 10:56:26 AM PST by cvq3842 (A fool and his liberty are soon parted.)
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To: STARWISE

Thanks for posting this. This is a BIG story that needs much more attention.

Forget about Tiger Woods and Obama’s latest bullcrap.

These Jihadis are getting ready to strike again!

I’m glad the folks on this plane are safe, but what about the next one?


5 posted on 12/04/2009 10:57:17 AM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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To: STARWISE; Admin Moderator

Shouldn’t this be in NEWS?


6 posted on 12/04/2009 10:59:32 AM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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To: Blogger

THANKS BIG


7 posted on 12/04/2009 10:59:47 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: STARWISE

Too bad some of the passengers didn’t start throwing punches.


8 posted on 12/04/2009 10:59:58 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: STARWISE
This gets wierder.

It would seem to me that these "middle eastern men" could have faced federal charges for interfering with a flight crew.

9 posted on 12/04/2009 11:02:16 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

One would think.


10 posted on 12/04/2009 11:03:37 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

the same mentality that allowed Major Hasan to openly fantasize about cutting the throats of non muslims allowed those 10 men ot get back on that airplane

flying is a PRIVILEGE- not a right

why anyone remained on that airtran flight I cannot imagine...sheeple


11 posted on 12/04/2009 11:05:26 AM PST by silverleaf (More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: cvq3842

That’s what they want. They want to provoke others to attack them violently, then accuse the attackers of violence against them merely because of their looks and language. If 12 New Yorkers got up and started singing in Yiddish and dancing in the aisles, what would we do? The activity has to be stopped because it disrupts the flight, but the activity is not concrete terrorist activity (it’s a psyops form of terrorism and they know it), so until a criminal offense for terrorist psyops is added to the code, one has to be careful in reacting.

They have us over a barrel. We are right to fear them as possible terrorists because people who look them have done terrorist things, but they want an overreaction from us so they can accuse us of profiling.

They are playing with us mentally, and they know that our ability to respond is hampered by political correctness. We have to be intelligent in handling it. It sounds to me like the air crew was.

Perhaps we need laws against psychological terrorism. But what a nightmare to create that sort of legislation without eliminating honest people’s freedom or creating a tool by which the Left can bludgeon us?


12 posted on 12/04/2009 11:05:30 AM PST by Houghton M.
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To: Houghton M.

Interesting points.


13 posted on 12/04/2009 11:07:57 AM PST by cvq3842 (A fool and his liberty are soon parted.)
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To: STARWISE

Chilling...


14 posted on 12/04/2009 11:08:50 AM PST by luvie (Obama, the job-killer, has presided over the loss of 4.6 million jobs...and counting! RL)
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To: Houghton M.

A BIG BUMP for everyone flying this month:

News you NEED TO KNOW.


15 posted on 12/04/2009 11:09:06 AM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama terrorize New Yorkers.)
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To: Houghton M.

It doesn’t take a lot of legislation

Just a number one rule by the airline.

You disobey the orders of a flight crew, you do not fly. Period. The end. Carry arabic flashcards and pictures to convey the rules if those bozos want to claim language barrier. Teach every airline crew to say in arabic: “No use of electronic devices. You must remain seated. Only one passenger at a time may enter the lavatory. No standing in the aisle.”

You don’t like those rules, don’t get on the plane. It’s a privilege. Not a right. Pilots could enforce it by refusing to fly. One time a union is a good thing.


16 posted on 12/04/2009 11:10:36 AM PST by silverleaf (More folks being invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: Palladin

These Jihadis are getting ready to strike again!

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I feel it ... and our government is getting us ready
as their very policies pave the way for our enemies.

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Al-Qaeda a Threat in U.S. Says Napolitano
Written by Steven J. DuBord
Friday, 04 December 2009 00:11

Al Qaeda agents pose a threat to the United States and to U.S. interests abroad, and some are already here on American soil with the intent to attack various targets, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on December 2.

Napolitano gave this forthright assessment of the danger posed by al Qaeda one day after President Barack Obama announced his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan and warned that agents have been “sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit more acts of terror.”

The Homeland Security Secretary made her remarks to the America-Israel Friendship League in New York, saying that a recent spate of domestic arrests related to terrorism should “remove any remaining comfort that some might have had from the notion that if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won’t have to fight them here.”

This goes against the line of reasoning put forth by Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, who used it to justify the foreign wars he launched.

“The fact is that home-based terrorism is here. And like violent extremism abroad, it is now part of the threat picture that we must confront,” Napolitano declared.

“Individuals sympathetic to al Qaeda and its affiliates, as well as those inspired by their ideology, are present in the U.S., and would like to attack the homeland or plot overseas attacks against our interests abroad.”

Napolitano gave the example of Najibullah Zazi, an airport shuttle driver in Denver who was arrested in September after allegedly receiving al Qaeda training in Pakistan. Zazi allegedly tested homemade bombs like those used in the 2004 Madrid transit bombings and then drove from Denver to New York. He is facing charges of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/2469-al-qaeda-a-threat-in-us-says-napolitano

Lord, in Your abiding mercy, help us.. protect us.


17 posted on 12/04/2009 11:10:41 AM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: silverleaf
why anyone remained on that airtran flight

No kidding ... I'm quite sure I would have told AirTran to GFT, and booked a flight on another airline.

18 posted on 12/04/2009 11:17:21 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Palladin; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator

FR doesn’t allow wordpress or other blog site
items to be posted in news. Shame, as more and
more news is being covered and reported by real
folks in the “New Media” .. the great patriots
across this land .. because the lamestreams WON’T!.

This is what you get if you post a wordpress
article in News:

“Source is Blocked, article not posted
wordpress.com should be posted to the bloggers forum.”

Maybe the boss’ll think about reconsidering that
policy when appropriate, in light of our ‘changed’
world.


19 posted on 12/04/2009 11:26:08 AM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: Palladin

I posted this on Wed. night in breaking news, with a link to the Steve Gill show, and for some reason, after sometime, it wasn’t to be found anymore.

I think that there still is a “gotcha” feeling to this, that it might be a hoax, therefore making people skittish.

I still wonder about this even though I listened to the Chaplain yesterday and I have read that he was on fox.

Looking at the Chaplain’s web site, he appears to be a very credible person.


20 posted on 12/04/2009 11:26:39 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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