Posted on 09/14/2001 11:48:37 PM PDT by Scalia Rules
IRVING, Tex., Sept. 14. Two Men with box cutters, hair dye and a large amount of cash who were seized by federal authorities on an Amtrack train in Fort Worth on Wednesday remained in custody today for immmigration violations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said....
The authorities confirmed that the two men were flying to San Antonio from Newark when their plane made a stopover in St. Louis on Tuesday. After federal officials halted air traffic in response to Tuesday's hijackings, the men continued by train toward San Antonio until they were taken into custody during a routine drug patrol, officials said.
Better believe it. I just left JFK and security confiscated a "gimme" sewing kit (needle, thread, and buttons) that I had forgot about having in my bag.
Everybody should support plans for a roundup of recently arrived immigrants from middle eastern countries for interrogation.
Anybody opposed to this is helping the enemy and is NOT your friend. The enemy is among us and it has an ally in liberalism.
We are one or two more domestic attacks away from martial law.
Tell me about it! A federal marshall took a parker pen out of my shirt pocket and tested it to see if it would write.
Now having said that, I was more at ease seeing the precautions taken before I got on that plane. Our country will not be the same because of this.
They just don't get it, do they? I am beginning to see how a protracted war will do much damage to our liberties. All I can do is remind people that Bush vowed to "protect freedom" in his speech, but how many know exactly what that means?
I was 7 1/2 when Pearl Harbor happened, and acutely aware at that tender age of the meaning and reason for it. I went around with my little red wagon collecting scrap metal from empty lots in Coral Gables, Florida, and paper of any kind.
Added to that was every can used in the home, ends cut out and flattened - my job! - to be recycled.
We also purchased war stamps to place in war bond books each week at school to help fund the war.
Everyone had ration books for essential goods needed for the war effort - allowed only four pairs of shoes per person per year (tough for kids with growing feet) - sugar, butter, meat, gasoline, etc. rationed
We also watched for enemy planes and had blackout drills throughout the Miami area, carefully filling our bathtubs with water and closing the black curtains over the windows.
My father, from a high rise building in downtown Miami, saw a German sub surface in Biscayne Bay, as happened occasionally.
The unity and cooperation you see now is puny compared to the America of that time!
The belt has just begun to tighten - many of us know how, though, and have passed on understanding to our children.
The guys picked up on the train headed for San Antonio may well have been the field commanders, since they were much older than the young, naive kamikazes who highjacked the four planes.
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It would not surprise me if they were headed for Dallas/Ft. Worth airport.
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