What if terrorists kill 100 congressmen?

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | April 22, 2004 | Sarah Foster

[Gabz]

The waste of a perfectly useful bus?

The bus could probably be saved............

[Paladin2]

Fewer incumbents will be re-elected?

[Mike Darancette]

>"What if terrorists kill 100 congressmen?"

In the words of Jack Benny, "I'm thinking"

[leprechaun9]

I'm sure that the loss of 100 lives of members of Congress would be devastating to their families, but would the country be worse off? The answer is not too clear to me!

[Spotsy]

God these people think they are so important.

Yet, Congress won't accept any responsibility for making us vulnerable to the attacks on 9/11. Hmmm.

[Gabz]

Hmmm.

Hmmm...... is right.

[Waco]

Given that such a high % of politicians don't understand the meaning of the word "illegal", nowadays, would it be possible to say that anything crimminal or terroristic had happened?

[dalebert]

"What if the terrorists killed 100 congressmen?".....I doubt anyone would notice.

[Sandy]

These arrogant a-holes are so darned full of themselves. Gee, whatever will we do without them? I don't know, but I'll buy the beer.

If someone can show me where this law is Constitutionally authorized, I'd really appreciate it (as if such trivia matters anymore).

[Rockpile]

What would happen if terrorists kill 100 congressmen?

Uhhh.....there'd be fewer rubber checks written on the House bank?

[hoot2]

">"What if terrorists kill 100 congressmen?" "

will the trains still run on time?
will "homeland security" did do such n outstanding job?
will 3000 illegal mexicans still cross our border tonight?
who would notice?
who would care? they don't obey the oath they took;
n everything they do is "unconstitutional..."
it would probably only mean less "pork barrel spending..."

[hoot2]

"How many do we get to loose in the Senate and do we get to pick them? "

100 congressmen, n 100 senators...
that way no one can complain they're treated unfairly....

[DCPatriot]

It would depend on what side of the aisle we're talking about.

[mercy]

That, yes. But the answer I was looking for was ... 'not enough'.

[white trash redneck]

it would be a good start

Isn't that the punch line to a lawyer joke? Of course, among 100 Congressfelons, chances are you'd have 90 lawyers anyway.

[mathurine]

Might be hard to get those so selected to go. Congressperson is not exactly prestige employment. The same skills required for that will make you a fortune as a weather forecaster or something, and you won't have to go to Washington and pretend to be important-- just read a little something on the evening news, make a few stupid jokes, and announce the time, date and place of the latest pie sale.

[fight_truth_decay]

In August 2001, trailers for the upcoming Spiderman movie had baddies escaping a crime by helicopter and getting caught in a giant web strung between the Twin Towers. The day the teaser was launched, 1.9 million web-heads downloaded it; barely three weeks later the studio withdrew the teaser and had to re-design the film's opening sequence as well as the poster which had the arachnid superhero spreadeagled between Manhattan's former tallest towers.

http://www.suntimes.co.za/2003/09/07/lifestyle/life13.asp

Another movie victim of real-life events was Arnold Schwarzenegger's preposterous popcorn action-adventure Collateral Damage, which had its October 2001 release cancelled. The film was opened only in March 2002 and it bombed, albeit at the box-office. No big surprise for a retro-1980s movie about a firefighter out to avenge the death of his wife and child killed by an explosion at a US government building, orchestrated by a Colombian rebel leader. Filled with right-wing ideology, it confirmed how naïve and downright silly Hollywood can be when dealing with issues of international terrorism and politics.

After the Twin Towers attack, maverick director Robert Altman told Associated Press, "The movies set the pattern, and these people have copied the movies. . . Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd seen it in a movie. . . How dare we continue to show this kind of mass destruction in movies? "

The inspiration, or rather fictional precedent for 9/11 (let's at least give al-Qaeda some credit for their meticulous and audacious plan) was actually a book, Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor. In it the pilot of a jetliner crashes his aircraft into the Capitol building in Washington, DC, wiping out most of the US's elected officials. But films like Independence Day, Deep Impact, Armageddon, and just about every James Bond movie are examples of films that celebrate, and profit from, the depiction of destruction on a grand scale.

[Gabz]

'not enough'.

good start....

Pretty much the same premise........dontcha think?????

[Warlord David]

If terrorist kill 100 Congressman.

The US would fall into total chaos.

The majority of voters of tomorrow will not know how to read or write, let alone how to vote.

Congress is on it own suicide mission. And taking all of us for a ride.

[Gabz]

The majority of voters of tomorrow will not know how to read or write, let alone how to vote.

Doesn't that describe most voters of today???????????