Posted on 10/18/2001 5:05:48 PM PDT by truther
Here's one for Ripley's Believe It or Not:
Fourteen men from Syria - a state sponsor of terrorism - entered the United States this week on student visas to attend a flight school in Fort Worth, Texas, an Immigration and Naturalization Service official admitted today.
The men were "checked out" by the State Department before they obtained the M-1 visas for vocational education, and none of them was on "a watch list," said Tomas Zuniga, an INS spokesman in Dallas. "Everything was on the up and up."
A State Department official said there was no prohibition against issuing visas to flight-school students from the Middle East as long as they meet all visa requirements, United Press International reported today.
The FBI was notified about the Syrians because the men arrived in two groups, which concerned INS officials at the Dallas airport.
"Seven came on Sunday, and seven came in on Monday, so we thought it was a little suspicious, and we notified the FBI and they are aware of these 14," he said. "They did not show up on anybody's want list, so they were appropriately admitted."
To quote a certain peacenik folk song: "When will they ever learn?"
And now we read this from Larry, Curly, and Moe, Home-Security, Inc. Too, too,too funny.
Remember this also, no one in security, FBI, INS or at the State Department was fired for 9/11 so expect more incompetence. And to think a dumbed down Amerika expects to find bin Laden. Awe shucks, the FBI can't even find Eric Rudolph and it's nearly time for the next olympics.
President Bush can not oversee all branches and departments of the Government each and every day. My goodness, have we become a bunch of Vulture's
Cute.
Snore.
Who is this "we" you're talking about? What do you propose "we" do?
It's time to stop concerning ourselves with the 'civil rights' or (non-existent) 'Constitutional rights' of anyone who wishes to enter this country. Thousands of innocent American men, women and children can no longer lay claim to their civil or Constitutional rights because they were murdered by foreign/alien (excuse the political incorrectness) madmen in the most heinous, senseless act of violence ever perpetrated on American soil.
My apologies to those non-Americans who wish to come to our shore (or sneak across our border) in order to pursue the 'American dream' (or to suck the American taxpayer dry by becoming a ward of the welfare state .... take your pick). Those of us who are already here (and some of us whose ancestors have been here for generations) are still reeling from the bloodshed of 9/11/01 (which was, in large part, the result of decades of leftist/'we are the world'/multicultural/hate America domestic and foreign policy indoctrination). We're busy mopping up the blood, channeling the anger, and disabling/destroying the perpetrators. And, until we have achieved what the psychobabblers seek to call closure, and have ourselves assured that we and our fellow Americans are safe from an encore of 9/11/01 (and don't hold your breath in the waiting), our doors need to be locked. American blood is thicker than multicultural 'melting pot' water. And we will do whatever we must to see that not one more drop of that precious commodity is shed. If we seem anti-social, unbending, and inhospitable, so be it.
no prohibition against issuing visas .... as long as they meet all visa requirements .... They did not show up on anybody's want list, so they were appropriately admitted.
It's time to change, or righteously ignore, existing 'visa requirements.' There is a reason that a person shows up on a want list. And, by the time his face appears there, that reason is irrevocable history (and more havoc has most likely been wreaked on innocent people). Yeah, 'innocent until proven guilty' has a nice ring to it. But when the state of the world has become so perilous as to render that noble concept potentially fatal to multitudes of people, it's time to practice restrained nobility. Let's not cross our fingers (and tie our hands) in the name of civil rights, and possibly allow these fourteen Syrian flight school students to get their pilots' licenses, hijack a plane (or four), murder a few thousand more innocents, and go into hiding. Then, following necessary 'procedure,' and presuming that they are now included in the precious want list, we can begin the long and arduous task of hunting them down. And, while we are hunting them down, we will no doubt be training other 'legal immigrants' whose sole purpose is to perpetrate some atrocity that will grant them want list inclusion as well.
In light of the no-turning-back events of 9/11/01, little paranoia/isolationism is sometimes a healthy thing ....
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