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So this trial attorney was flagged by the border agent's computer, but the agent waited a whole minute and waved him in?
1 posted on 05/31/2007 4:28:07 PM PDT by Baladas
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He was on the “no fly” list. What did they not understand?


2 posted on 05/31/2007 4:31:51 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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After all these years of never getting a message, the border guy gets message, now gets another message. We’re series! Especially since MSM has taken such a hugh interest, probably because there was an airplane involved at some point.


3 posted on 05/31/2007 4:32:27 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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A picture of the border guard:

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4 posted on 05/31/2007 4:32:46 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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If the guy had a Hispanic surname, and no identification, the border agent would still be on the job. Probably get a bonus.


5 posted on 05/31/2007 4:32:57 PM PDT by TommyDale (More Americans are killed each day in the U.S. by abortion than were killed on 9/11 !)
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Doctors hope also to determine where he contracted the disease, which has been found around the world and exists in pockets in Russia and Asia.

I would like to know the answer to this.


6 posted on 05/31/2007 4:33:20 PM PDT by Letitring
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It’s one thing to not have safeguards in place. That can be fixed. It’s another thing to have them but allow a culture that says that procedures do not need to be followed if it’s “really busy”.


7 posted on 05/31/2007 4:34:19 PM PDT by n230099 (64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.)
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Fire the damn border inspector!
11 posted on 05/31/2007 4:39:47 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead ("nothing gets figured out if you don't bother to stop and think about it", Thomas Sowell)
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I don’t get it. Hundreds of thousands of individuals cross our southern “border” illegally every year and we haven’t a clue who they are or what horrible disease they may be infected with. It doesn’t seem to bother Bush particularly or the CDC. Why the big fuss over one guy? All of a sudden they’re concerned? Don’t make me laugh!


12 posted on 05/31/2007 4:39:51 PM PDT by WestSylvanian
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Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old personal injury lawyer

I think Andy is gonna see up close and personal the other side of the litigation process now that the other plane passengers and crew now know who he is.

13 posted on 05/31/2007 4:41:22 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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“The inspector has been removed from border duty.”

The only thing that this guy could have done to ingratiate himself to his chain of command more would have been to help an illegal alien carry a nuclear weapon across the border. Chertoff will be promoting him and Boosh will be inviting him to the State of the Union Speech next January.

The guy couldn’t have done more for his future by winning on American Idol.

15 posted on 05/31/2007 4:42:01 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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The disclosure that the patient is a lawyer — and specifically a personal injury lawyer — outraged many people on the Internet and elsewhere. Some travelers who flew on the same planes with Speaker angrily accused him of selfishly putting hundreds of people's lives in danger.

He will be kept in a special unit with a ventilation system to prevent the escape of germs. "He may not leave that room much for several weeks," hospital spokesman William Allstetter said....Speaker's father-in-law has worked at the CDC for 32 years and is in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, where he works with TB and other organisms. He has co-authored papers on diabetes, TB and other infectious diseases. ...

That personal injury lawyer should spend his time in quarantine looking up defenses for his own conduct.

18 posted on 05/31/2007 4:43:44 PM PDT by xJones
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I suppose the fact that this guy even encountered a border agent at all during his crossing shows some progress.


19 posted on 05/31/2007 4:43:59 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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Remember — Chucky “we must investigate!” Schumer’s state border was breached..
21 posted on 05/31/2007 4:45:29 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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This story is getting into the Weird-O-Rama territory.
22 posted on 05/31/2007 4:45:32 PM PDT by devane617 (Stop Illegal Immigration. Call your Senator today. Senate Switchboard at 202-224-3121.)
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Speaker said in a newspaper interview that he knew he had TB when he flew from Atlanta to Europe in mid-May for his wedding and honeymoon,

Why are we not hearing about the new wife?

I assume he kissed her?

24 posted on 05/31/2007 4:48:11 PM PDT by Buddy B (MSgt Retired-USAF)
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Say you're a border agent who gets a directive to stop a certain guy and be sure to put on protective gear when you deal with him. The guy pulls up, you do a computer search and realize who he is, you take one look at him and decide he looks fine to you, and then you tell him to go on his way- fast!
25 posted on 05/31/2007 4:49:04 PM PDT by Krankor (kROGER)
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“Speaker’s father-in-law has worked at the CDC for 32 years and is in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, where he works with TB and other organisms”

Anyone that thinks this is just a coincidence has been smoking too much funny smelling stuff.


27 posted on 05/31/2007 4:50:01 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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"A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday. The inspector has been removed from border duty."

Well, that pretty much says alot about our Customs Border Protection officers under Chertnoff's command. It actually happens more often than the media reports. CBP, USCIS, BP, and ICE are hampered by absurd restrictions from the top.

The DEPARTMENT of HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) should be dis-mantled yesterday. The original intent was to bring together all the various "security" agencies. They left out the FBI and CIA, and have accessed billions of dollars for the purpose of searching old ladies with walkers in airports.

However, I will give kudos to the FBI for locating and arresting numerous Islamo-facists in the states over the last years according to numerous media reports. Still, they can do better. Time to discriminate.

Oops, is that a bad word? Sorry to inform the liberal whiners, but everyone, including them, discriminate in all aspects of their lives every day in how they pick their produce, what gas station they use, what beer they drink, which highway they use to work, what TV show to watch, etc. Individuals discriminate - that's life.

29 posted on 05/31/2007 4:53:14 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (In perpetuum sacramentum)
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I wonder if the border guard got some money from the lawyer during the minute he was making a decision.


34 posted on 05/31/2007 5:04:54 PM PDT by digitalbrownshirt (http://digitalbrownshirt.blogspot.com)
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Speaker said in a newspaper interview that he knew he had TB when he flew from Atlanta to Europe in mid-May for his wedding and honeymoon, but that he did not find out until he was already in Rome that it was an extensively drug-resistant strain considered especially dangerous.

Is this not considered "assault" in our courts, whether it was "simple" TB or XDR TB?

35 posted on 05/31/2007 5:05:43 PM PDT by ikka
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