BS!
"I'm not willing to risk my next air flight on someone's foolish notion of political correctness."
You really are a dolt. The men who boarded those flights on 911 did so with sharpened plastic. It could happen again - easily. You are just like all the other mindless dolts - willing to sacrifice the Bill of Rights for safety. Those who value security over freedom are deserving of neither!
Now that we have a federalized security force at our airports (starting with 23,000 mindless dolts of the federal government on the federal payroll and another MASSIVE federal program) I am sure you fell sooooooo much safer. After all the feds have done such a bang-up job with everything they've touched -- social security, public schools, welfare -- why the list of Socialist and Communist programs are just endless -- and all a success -- NOT!!!!!!
"if I saw a man I knew to be from Oklahoma hovering around the waterways that feed my drinking water, or any number of potential threats, then I would damn sure call in the Feds."
Well, I would expect you to. So would I, but I'd also give a description.
Hmmmph. I responded to some earlier posts before skimming through the astonishing array of ad-hominem attacks and rabid ramblings by our dear JRadcliffe. That "I'm surrounded by idiots" prattle is pathetically tired material. Also, the witnesses, such as Barbara Olson, described the weapons the murderers used to slash flight attendants' throats as "box cutters", which have metal blades. Perhaps I missed an in-depth follow-up on that.
But then I noticed this when clicking on the "JRadcliffe" handle:
No current Freeper by that name.
Do I argue with a ghost? Oh well, as a famous Proverb so aptly put it: "Answer a fool according to his folly."
I'd just like to say that thrashing around, calling people "dolts" indiscriminately speaks poorly of one's emotional maturity and intellectual acuity. Sure, Freepers do tend to be passionate in our beliefs, and that's cool, but I advise against flinging oneself into the mud in a vain attempt to impress somebody (who's impressed by that sort of thing, anyway?).
Oh, and our beloved Ben Franklin is already dead; misquoting his observation about freedom and security to death as well is hardly a fitting tribute to such a great man. From Bartlett's:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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