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Passenger killed by air marshal
Yahoo news ^ | 12/7/05

Posted on 12/07/2005 2:21:03 PM PST by KeyLargo

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To: Revolting cat!
MEMO TO SELF: Avoid air travel when off meds!

Memo to self: Avoid air travel.
41 posted on 12/07/2005 3:00:35 PM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: KeyLargo
Sad, but here's a suggestion:

If you're mad as a hatter, don't get on a US plane. We're not messing around anymore.

42 posted on 12/07/2005 3:02:59 PM PST by mikeus_maximus (Voting for "the lesser of two evils" is still evil.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
Next rewrite: "Mentally disturbed passenger killed by air marshall"...

Followed with "Unarmed mentally disturbed father of two, shot dead by air marshall! Family in shock!"

43 posted on 12/07/2005 3:04:57 PM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
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Perp flew from Quito, Ecuador, to Miami this morning, according to the Feds. Said he had a bomb, turns out he was lying. No bomb found.


44 posted on 12/07/2005 3:05:07 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Dave278

He had already landed from Quito, cleared customs, and had boarded another plane for Orlando when he got in an argument with his wife, grabbed his carryon and ran down the aisle yelling he had a bomb. The Air Marshalls followed him out into the jetway.


45 posted on 12/07/2005 3:07:46 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Riley
A HUGE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE IS THE LAST THING THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE AROUND A PRIMED CHARGE THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO SET OFF!

There you go using common sense to a media idjit that thinks he knows everything.

46 posted on 12/07/2005 3:17:03 PM PST by raybbr
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To: Howlin
Now, why select that particular phrase, "I have a bomb?"

Why not, "I'm a purple capon prancing merrily?" or "Who's your daddy?" Why reference explosives? These are law enforcement, not shrinks.

Kum-bay-ya.

47 posted on 12/07/2005 3:17:12 PM PST by elk
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To: syriacus

Do Democrats think Miami air marshals lied?

This is a rundown of what happened at the Miami Airport on Wednesday:

A man aboard an American Airlines flight from Colombia:

1. Claimed he had a bomb.

2. Made threatening statements and exhibited erratic behavior.

3. Refused to comply with numerous and repeated demands to stop.

Authorities determined that:

1. The man posed a mortal threat to those around him.

2. The man refused to comply with their demands to disarm.

As a result, the man was shot and killed. This lessened and perhaps ended the threat against those on the plane. Future threats from others may have also been discouraged.

As it turned out, the man didn’t have a bomb, but those whose job it is to know believed that he could have. They judged that the man’s statements and actions posed too great a threat to take a chance – especially in a post-9/11 world. The air marshals launched a pre-emptive strike against a threat based on the best information available.

Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have not yet issued statements.


48 posted on 12/07/2005 3:17:49 PM PST by ConservativeMajority
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To: KeyLargo
I used to carry one of those things on every business trip to the engineering headquarters and I was sure careful to not call it by the acronym, BOM (bill of materials).
49 posted on 12/07/2005 3:20:28 PM PST by Final Authority
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To: South40

Just right! It's more SLANTED and biased news reporting making fun of our first line security troops...it's so wrong.


50 posted on 12/07/2005 3:23:20 PM PST by cowboy_code ("There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.")
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To: ConservativeMajority

Congressional Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded that clairvoiants be employed in each terminal to read the minds of incoming bomber suspects. "San Fransisco has plenty of mind-readers who can help the TSA," Pelosi claimed, "and I know they could use the work."


51 posted on 12/07/2005 3:23:28 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Dems Cut and Run on their own ideas!)
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To: elk

I have NO clue why anybody would speak the word B O M B anywhere NEAR an airport, do you?


52 posted on 12/07/2005 3:24:14 PM PST by Howlin
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To: KeyLargo

The lesson is when an armed Air Marshal orders you to do something, you'd better do it!


53 posted on 12/07/2005 3:25:45 PM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: elk
Now, why select that particular phrase, "I have a bomb?"

Another consideration is that a Latin American would pronounce it with an accent, sounding something like (correct me if I'm wrong)

'I hef a-bomp'

Now, why interpret that as "I have a bomb" and not a rare copy of Barry Mann's classic single?


54 posted on 12/07/2005 3:26:19 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: KeyLargo
By the end of the week this guy will be another innocent victim of the evil Bush's "War on Terror". They are already showing the smuck's picture all over the TV.
55 posted on 12/07/2005 3:33:51 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: Revolting cat!

Who put the bomp in the bomp bomp bomp bomp bomp
Who put a drain on the aero-aero-airplane
Who got blown to bit bit bit bit bits
Who was the dip who got rip rip rip rip ripped?
Who was that man?
You cannot shake his hand
He got taken out by air security.


56 posted on 12/07/2005 3:40:59 PM PST by pleasedontzotme
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Note to self:

Do not yell "I have a bomb" when in an airport.

You can bet that if the idiot HAD a bomb, and law enforcement didn't stop him, the headline would read something like "Keystone cops fail to stop suicide bomber, hundreds dead".

Damned if they do, damned if they don't. I'm just amazed (and thankful) anyone still WANTS to be a cop.


57 posted on 12/07/2005 3:41:01 PM PST by bordergal
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To: KeyLargo

I have not been on line for a day or two. What I fun I have missed. Doing my comparative reading on you peoples behalf I just went to DUmmieland to see what they are saying about the shooting There are many stories posted and this one was just the first:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5540435

According to these peoples postings thie incident was even a staged event to distrct people from the Dem response to Pres. Bush's criticism of cut & run statements. LOL! Scrolling down from this story and reading others you get more and more of the same. LOL! Even that air marshalls should b e trained to take in a persons mental condition. Last but not least......the feds stole his meds beforehand. LOL! LOL!

But I gotta thank the DUmmies. I was off line becuase I am not feeling well. But laughter is indeed the best medicine.


58 posted on 12/07/2005 3:44:53 PM PST by commonasdirt (Reading DU so you won't hafta)
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To: Final Authority
used to carry one of those things on every business trip to the engineering headquarters and I was sure careful to not call it by the acronym, BOM (bill of materials

You most likely had the dreaded AVL in the same brief case!

59 posted on 12/07/2005 3:47:51 PM PST by dearolddad
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To: KeyLargo

lol


60 posted on 12/07/2005 3:50:16 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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