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To: Lunatic Fringe
I never said that. So because I disagree with pat-downs in public places, suddenly I'm a LIBERAL?

No, when you deny and/or minimize their existence by referring to terrorists as "bogeymen". Here is the Wikipedia definition:

The bogeyman, also boogeyman, boogyman, or bogyman, is a legendary ghost-like monster that children often believe is real....The term bogeyman is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of which someone else has an irrational fear.

One can attempt to make a case that it's irrational to fear terrorists will attack within the US, but given 9/11, the first Trade Towers attack, John Muhammad murdering people on highways, the Lackawana gang etc., not to mention the Jewish center in my own town of Seattle that makes it seem ostrich (or DU) like to attempt to claim they are some sort of fabrication.

130 posted on 07/30/2006 9:26:18 PM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: highlander_UW
The term bogeyman is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of which someone else has an irrational fear.

And this is the context to which I refer. I think it is an irrational fear that terrorists are going to do something at a Bucs game. I'd be more worried about Bucs fans lynching Jon Gruden.

The way this "war" is fought is ridiculous. I have to be patted down before I board a plane, but that Arab three people back in the security line is waved through. I have NEVER seen an Arab man scrutinized at the airport, but I have to throw away by Cat-5 crimper "because it's a tool" and the rules say no tools are allowed on a plane?

So, yeah... I support doing away with the pat-downs because they are WORTHLESS and perpetuate this culture of fear created by King George and his Motley Crew of Fools.

I would say I wish Reagan would come back, but then I remember he skulked out of Lebanon 3 months after the marine barracks were bombed.

Our country is not serious about this war, and if the government isn't going to take it seriously, why should I be inconvenienced for the sake of window dressing???

131 posted on 07/30/2006 10:18:11 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
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