Cokie's Kooky Kops

Sierra Times ^ | Ted Lang

[Sir Gawain]

	Cokie’s Kooky Kops By Ted Lang © Published 05. 28. 02 at 21:34 Sierra Time

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Another example has surfaced with the discovery of Chandra Levy’s remains, confirming once again the astonishing lunacy of security-seeking, freedom-trading twits who continuously howl and whine that their opinion should override the Constitution. Demanding that others be deprived of their right to self and family defense, they clamor that only the police and military be allowed firearms, thereby assuring the police state that will follow. ABC’s Cokie Roberts revealed herself as a staggering tower of intellect when proclaiming how frightened she would be if a pilot with a gun started running around the cabin shooting at her and other passengers. George Stephanopolous, her co-anchor and to his credit, pointed out the absurdity of her remark stating that if the pilot was bent on destruction, why wouldn’t he just crash the plane and kill all aboard at once? I wish I could have seen that. I would have loved to have seen the expression on her face when George unleashed this basic common sense. Obviously, Cokie would prefer that only a Sky Marshall be armed, because he would be "fully trained." Would that include all the time he spends sitting on his assets and doing nothing? And what if the Marshall flips out Coke? If a pilot can be trained to handle an airplane that weighs as much as the Statue of Liberty disconnected from its base, why couldn’t he be trained to carry and operate a one-pound gun? Cokie the genius would take a chance on one Marshall that could conceivably be overpowered in the cabin, rather than an armed pilot and copilot behind a secured door and authorized only to maintain "cockpit integrity." Since Cokie was obviously born, raised and educated in Rush Limbaugh’s favorite town of Rio Linda [?], she is unaware that all pilots have already been trained to maintain "fuselage integrity" in the event of a crash. That means, trying to put the fuselage between immovable obstacles such as trees or buildings to save human life in such a situation. Cokie would rather take a chance on this one Sky Marshall than, as civil aviation pilot Neal Boortz puts it, ensuring "a last line of defense." And if Cokie’s proven asinine theories are employed, then she of course would also approve of an Air Force fighter shooting down the plane and killing all aboard, as well as those on the ground, rather than allowing the Constitution’s Bill of Rights to apply. The blatant stupidity of Cokie Roberts’ and the media’s gun hysteria are major contributory factors to the carnage of 9-11, and lends itself also to understanding how the Leftmedia’s gunphobia caused Bush, Tom "Linus and his Technicolor security blanket" Ridge, and former Waco BATF Executive gunman Tom Magaw, to tell the commercial airline pilots and the American people to go to hell regarding arming pilots. We all recall how the BATF protected us at Waco, resulting in the retaliatory bombing of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building. Joe Farrah of WorldNetDaily pointed out that Magaw issued a warning to BATF agents not to be inside federal buildings immediately before McVey, and others unknown, killed 168 innocent people. No BATF agents, the very targets of McVey’s rage, were in the building. Where were the police and the United States Government on 9-11 if they are so highly qualified? If they are the only ones qualified in firearms, why couldn’t they protect us? If they couldn’t then, why would we conclude that their incompetence has diminished to the extent of making us all safer now? How do gub’ment armed agencies and police stack up as the most qualified to carry weapons to protect us? Washington Police Chief Ramsey on Levy’s discovery: "The manner or cause of death is still pending." Huh? Paraphrasing him, MSNBC’s website offered on May 22: "Ramsey said police had searched 1,700 acres of the park last summer and that this particular area was so remote it had not been searched." [Emphasis added.] Obviously, the only killers encountered by these Keystone Kops drop off their victims on the front lawn of the White House. And now, unbelievably, we have more incompetence from the FBI? My, what a surprise! Tom Ridge proclaims if we arm pilots, "we may have to arm bus drivers next." If memory serves, there have been bus incidents following 9-11. Senator Fritz Hollings proclaims arming pilots is the same as giving passengers machetes! Huh? Doesn’t this government incompetence, ineptitude, and absurd logic frighten you? It should – it’s all about people control, stupid!

[willgetsome]

Cokie? Who cares...nobody watches her show...

[jackbill]

Kookie Roberts is the off-fall of two DemocRAT members of Congress. What do you expect?

[jackbill]

I'd rather have a couple of armed sky marshalls on EVERY flight

I guess you haven't heard the news today that the government is cutting short the "training" of sky marshalls.

Frankly, after seeing a number of your "replys", you really, really need to take a close look at the inefficiency, corruptness and total waste of most government programs/employees.

BTW, most airline pilots in the U.S. are former military pilots - who have had years of weapons training.

[savedbygrace]

The article doesn't say what you said it says.

Maybe you should read it again. The posters who've tried to set you straight seem to have the bona fides.

[Young Werther]

Sorry!

[Ditter]

I heard the same thing from my liberal Dutch friend. She said she would be very frightened to know that the pilot had a gun on the plane. I tried to get more out of her but apparently the mere thought of a gun scared her so much she changed the subject. She wants unarmed Sky Marshalls.

[Squantos]

I have had many encounters with Cokie. She had a dynamite butt.................too bad it's on her shoulders now.

Stay Safe !