Posted on 05/09/2011 1:41:50 PM PDT by rellimpank
Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for better rail security now that the raid on Osama bin Ladens compound has turned up plans to attack trains in the U.S.
Anyone, even a member of al-Qaida could purchase a train ticket and board an Amtrak train without so much as a question asked, Schumer said. So thats why Im calling for the creation of an Amtrak no ride list. That would take the secure flight program and apply it to Amtrak trains.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
I’ll give my age away, but I remember when you could just get on the train at the station and pay for your ticket when the conductor came around with his punch.
We’re one train bombing away from having the TSA move in on the trains, and do the same thing to that industry they’re done to the airlines. Chucky is merely stating the obvious.
“....the raid on Osama bin Ladens compound has turned up plans to attack trains in the U.S.”
These guys really, really need to shut their yaps about may or may not have been found at OBL’s pad.
In related news:
Voters call for do not reelect list. Voters concerned about material exposed at the Democratic Party headquarters Sunday, which has turned up plans to attack the US Constitution.
Voters said Sunday they would push for the creation of a do not reelect list. The list would be similar to bills calling for term limits that would keep suspected abusers of power from the halls of government.
Notes and talking points memos uncovered from Democratic operatives calling for renewed attacks on any opposition group by demonization and labeling extremist.
Voters are calling for an end to funding for taxpayer supported liberal support groups in light of this new intelligence.
Voters say that citizens must remain vigilant in protecting their rights from future attacks
Of course, a terrorist could just do it on a subway train, instead. So I guess we’ll have to have a list for subways, too. And busses, and taxicabs, and cars and trucks, and bicycles.
I’m just sayin...
Can I get on that list?? How much do you have to pay?
Pray for America
And malls and sporting events and schools.
Anybody else ever notice that the first three letters of Chuckie’s last name are the same as the first three letters of the word “schmuck?”
The first time I had to produce an ID (driver’s license) when boarding Amtrak, was four years or so ago. Small town stop in the middle of the prairie at 3 in the morning.
And the rest of the Senate right behind him. Especially the smelly ones like Reid.
Seems odd translators could go though Osama' s stuff - and find the info about trains so quickly.
I don't believe it.
Takes time to translate - - lots of stuff hauled out of the mansion...
My guess? Liberals are doing their totalitarian control freak thing - - the only 'terrorists' that fit their paranoid delusions are conservative, white, middle class Americans.
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