Posted on 07/19/2004 5:30:58 PM PDT by RaceBannon
I just saw your post. Your links have pictures I've never seen before!! My Father was sent from St. Louis to help get the Monsanto plant back on its feet after the explosions. I grew up and went to school in Texas City.
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I'm sure I'll get flamed by the libertarians, but let's get real, instead of utopian! A free country can't judicially handle the kind of attacks we have witnessed and may soon witness. The conspiracy laws of our land are ill- prepared for what the terrorists are going to throw at us. Can we arrest a citizen for taking a movie of the Sears Tower or asking the building manager about the Achilles heal of the structure? Hardly? Here's a cut at the kind of laws that may help us survive the next few years.
1) Deportation of all science, engineering graduate students from terrorist sponsoring nations.
2) Deportation of all flight students and those that are learning how to operate heavy equipment from terrorist sponsoring nations.
3) Strict laws against possession (and or strictly license the acquisition process) of materials which can be used for bio- and chemical weaponry.
4) Seizure of all incoming and outgoing funds to and from terrorist sponsoring nations.
5) Strict laws which make it illegal to communicate with terrorists.
6) Strict laws that make the combined acts of indirect contact (through third parties) with a terrorist and collecting information on infrastructure an act of terrorism or a conspiracy to commit terrorism offense.
7) Strict laws against anyone who has ever in the past had contact, direct or indirect, with terrorists from being near reservoirs, power plants, food processing plants, or agricultural areas.
8) Strict hoax laws as there are for mentioning the word "bomb" at an airport or threatening the president's life.
This enemy is stealing the very freedoms we have fought so hard to obtain, so severe restrictions in our freedoms are unfortunately necessary to combat this kind of enemy. As it is, we can literally be bankrupted by any guy with a bag of flour and a box of envelopes.
The other answer is better, but less appetizing for the politically correct- absolute extermination of radical Islam and any and all pretenders to that cause.
As it is we're getting these guys on immigration violations. That's not enough! What about the ones who came here in the late 80s and are now citizens and who may in fact be working for our own government agencies? Face it folks, we're in deep dung unless we get a pretty fierce set of conspiracy laws on the books in very short order or are prepared to face the music on my other suggestion.
I grew up in Texas City also. Graditated in '69. Go Stings! Dad used to own the skating rink on Texas Ave.
Neat!! I used to go there. I still get the Stingaree Tales published by Jack Cooper.
Could be this guy.
Greetings, fellow Stingarees!
Fry or Blocker?
I guess it was Fry, not the one on the main street as that's where I went to Junior High.
I only went to the other elementary half a year then went to Our Lady of Fatima. I'm older than you but have 3 younger brothers.
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