Posted on 09/15/2002 10:57:12 AM PDT by Asmodeus
I wouldn't call a registered nurse from an upper middle class neighborhood in GA "white trash", and I also wouldn't call these goons "bright and well educated", who could only get into a CARIBBEAN medical school (where ANYONE can get in), plus made such horrible statements, in public, about 9/11 et al, then LIED about it...
And of course those IDs really prove that the guys were OK. If the cops get a lead like they did, and they find a car with bad plates, considering the times, they had better be checking out everything with a proctoscope.
The cops had reasonable cause to do everything they did. I know there's a Loonytarian viewpoint being circulated here that you can't investigate until the bomb actually goes off, but that is just nuts.
I've beent through quite a few tolls myself but have NEVER heard of that or seen it. Every car pays its own toll. Everytime.
True in maybe you can blow through a toll and nothing will happen. But if you need to pull someone over then any reason will do, failing to pay a toll, not signaling a lane change, dropping a chewing gum wrapper etc...
These promising students had just returned from a party in Chicago on 9-11. What kind of people would have a party on 9-11? The same kind of people who celebrate Hilter's birthday.
James Woods (the actors) called the FBI about some suspicious passengeners on his flight and so did the pilot. It turned out that poor, paranoid, misguided James Woods and seen the 9-11 terrorists doing a dry run. If only the FBI had investigated that tip they way the cops in Fla did, things would be alot different.
He reported it at the time, but the FBI called him back to take the report (again) after 9-11.
The early reports said that they were not cooperating. I heard the other side of that story. When they said that they were MED students on their way to a hospital for a rotation, they were not believed and the cops laughed. As if they had claimed to be President Bush or something like that. It took a while to take it seriously enough to check it out.
This could have been over in less than one hour. Every moment of delay that the cops did not check out their story is on them and not on the non-cooperation of the suspects. Maybe there is a lesson that made an impression on the cops so this won't happen again.
The smug attitude of that punk wearing the Haji Baba get up says it all..and all I can hope is that they keep showing his mug on TV and someone takes it intp his own hands and smacks him upside the head.
I sure hope that you are kidding because if you are not then we sure have a big problem in this nation.
Take a random person, a member of a group that is being demonized and, to your view, there is nothing that you cannot do to him on suspicion only. Do you understand that if that is established precedent, you might some day be part of a demonized group. Let us say that in 2009 Miss Hillary is the president. She declares over and over again that all our problems are caused by the VRWC of which all FReepers and all Libertarians are members. We are toast!
Go find Pastor Niemoller's poem and read it again.
Very good point. Sadly however, regardless of whatever current precedents exist, leftist administrations do NOT feel constrained to abide by them. For example, there was NO precedent for the massacre at Waco committed by the first clinton administration nor for the blatent war crimes of the 2nd clinton administration committed in Bosnia-Herzgovinia and Kosovo...clintons war of islamic terrorist expansion in the Balkans. Should another criminal leftist government be elected, we are toast regardless of whatever precedents are set.
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