Mineta's war on what?

Jewish World Review ^ | 8/15/02 | Jack Kelly

[Slings and Arrows]

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | There is no tyranny like petty tyranny, as Fred Hubbell has learned to his sorrow. Hubbell, 80, was tired and cranky as he was undergoing his second pat-down by security guards at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut August 2. Hubbell lost it when one of the Transportation Security Administration screeners started going through his wallet.

"You better look at it real good. There may be a rifle in there," Hubbell snapped, according to Dana Cosgrove, head of the local TSA security force. Hubbell was led away in handcuffs, fingerprinted, and locked in a holding cell. Eventually he was released without charges being pressed. But, of course, he missed his flight.

In Philadelphia in January, a pilot for US Air was strip-searched. He asked the screeners why they were searching him for tweezers or nail clippers when - since he was the pilot of the airplane - he could crash the plane in his underwear if he wanted to. The pilot was arrested.

[Slings and Arrows]

This IS still America, right?

Right?

FReegards,
Slings and Arrows

[driftless]

Mineta is a moron. The politically correct are responsible for 9/11 and all subsequent terrorist attacks resulting from this insane p.c. random frisking policy. Random searches are one thing, but profiling is essential.

[Utah Girl]

Irony abounds in Mineta's appointment. President Bush was trying to be bi-partisan in his cabinet, who knew that the Transportation Secretary would end up being such an important player in the scheme of things? And Mineta's background as being in the Japanese camps during WWII have played a big part in what is going on right now, he doesn't want to be mean to anyone or hurt anyone's feelings. He is willing to inconvenience tens of thousands of people who fly daily so that he won't hurt Arab males of the age 20 to 45 feelings.

[goodieD]

Hasn't been for quite some time, komrade.. Check with I Love Lucy and Leave it To Beaver, just down the hallway, if you're looking for "America".

[Mr. Mojo]

Mineta's war on what?

He's at war with common sense / reason.

[Mr. Mojo]

he doesn't want to be mean to anyone or hurt anyone's feelings

To leftists, 'feelings' trump everything else.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

What a ridiculous farce this "AIRPORT SCREENING" crapola is! If I were an Arab terrorist ( Note to FBI: I'm not) I would bring down a dozen or so American airliners just to show how toothless this program really is.

I won't give details, but it would be relatively easy to do.

Think about it for a minute- what would happen to the entire airline industry if 12 or 15 planes were blown out of the sky in a single day???? Even our duplicitous Federal Government would have a hard time covering THAT up!

It WOULD be a big boost for AMTRAK. though...

[Gurn]

Minetta should be horse whipped.

[NEWwoman]

Are we surprised that Airlines are going bankrupt or are heading that way: National, United, American ... ???

As a side note: They actually renamed the San Jose (California) airport after Mineta!

[07055]

who knew that the Transportation Secretary would end up being such an important player in the scheme of things? And Mineta's background as being in the Japanese camps during WWII have played a big part in what is going on right now, he doesn't want to be mean to anyone or hurt anyone's feelings.

You are exactly correct. Whoever heard of a Transportation Secretary before 9/11?

It's Bush's bad luck (and the country's) to have exactly the wrong person in that job at this critical time. Someone who was so traumatized by having his baseball bat taken away from him as a kid during WWII that he is willing to let Arab terrorists hijack planes because "profiling them is wrong."

If Bush wants to be bipartisan, let him fire Mineta the Moron and name a RAT to a less important cabinet position---like Secretary of the Treasury, perhaps.

[Slings and Arrows]

I hear you. Airport security is a street-theater farce: Non-security guarding against non-perps. (I'd also discuss how it's unconstitutional and an affront to human dignity, but I'm trying to watch my blood pressure.) What kind of sense does it make when you can't bring a non-locking pocketknife with a one-inch blade on a plane, or a toy robot or jewelry bullet, but a deadly stiletto (excuse me, I meant "ball-point pen") or fighting club (excuse me, I meant "cane") is just peachy? (Nor do I think that these should be banned - any of them.)

Execept for work or family emergencies, from now on I fly Ford. May all the airlines go bankrupt.

FReegards,
Slings and Arrows

[aculeus]

He is willing to inconvenience tens of thousands of people who fly daily so that he won't hurt Arab males of the age 20 to 45 feelings.

It's much worse. He is willing to risk another 9-11 rather than use commonsense profiling.

Bush is risking his entire Administration on this jackass.

[Darth Sidious]

And meanwhile, Bush doesn't give a flying rat's butt about how "the little people" are being treated by his gate-stapo.

There's two kinds of people in America today: "the king's men" and "the subjects". Only the subjects need worry about such harassment, doncha know?

[Don Joe]

"he doesn't want to be mean to anyone or hurt anyone's feelings."

Earth to Mineta-san: yer "hurting LOT'S OF PEOPLE'S feelings". Presuming of course one includes "offending the living s#hit out of mass quantities of law-abiding AMERICANS" in the "hurting their feelings" classification.

[Don Joe]

"They actually renamed the San Jose (California) airport after Mineta!"

Yer s#ittin me. When the hell did they start naming things after currently serving bureaucRATS?

[Don Joe]

"If Bush wants to be bipartisan, let him fire Mineta the Moron and name a RAT to a less important cabinet position---like Secretary of the Treasury, perhaps."

I'd think a more appropriate appointment might be something like Third Assistant Secretary to the Second Deputy Assistant to the Third Assistant Adminstrative Advisor to the Vice-Ambassador to Yemen.

[archy]

Earth to Mineta-san: yer "hurting LOT'S OF PEOPLE'S feelings".

Not to mention driving airlines into bankruptcy as fewer and fewer Americans will submit to such indignities.

[NEWwoman]

Reference an ealier post of mine:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/733230/posts

It mentions the airport and an incident. It generated some lively debate. Most good, but some came unhinged...

[NYCVirago]

And meanwhile, Bush doesn't give a flying rat's butt about how "the little people" are being treated by his gate-stapo. There's two kinds of people in America today: "the king's men" and "the subjects". Only the subjects need worry about such harassment, doncha know?

I've gotta disagree with that assessment. We've seen Carl Levin, Bob Dole, and Al Gore, to name just a few famous examples, harassed by these airport security idiots. Whatever you may think of their politics, the chances that these men would hijack an airplane are pretty slim.

[CWRWinger]

Mineta is a moron.

This needs to be repeated.

Mineta is a moron.

Not only a moron, but one with a vendetta against the USA population.

Mineta is a moron.