Posted on 10/05/2002 8:17:34 PM PDT by I_Love_My_Husband
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Snitch
You can do that? I always thought you had to maintain the seat you were assigned... boy do I feel stupid!
Everyone has to be something. That includes me.
OK smart guy "out" me. LOL
I believe I just did.
Ouch.
As I recall that stuff was caught in the preflight security check(Amazing...!)
Yes, you know how that little story goes, Peter and the Wolf. But the terrorists are using this little story to their advantage. Play enough with people's minds, play enough games.....well, you know how the story ends: people begin to ignore LEGITIMATE cries for help because all the previous cries of concern were proven "unfounded." Granted, some of these events are random and coincidental, and should be "nonconcerns." But I dare say, many are not.
In the process, those who cry "wolf" are made to look foolish....and this works right in with their plans to have people either (1)stop crying wolf out of embarrassment, or (2) begin to be ignored because there's too many "unfounded incidents."
What say you?
The use of cash has made one suspect for some time now. Any purchase that amounts to $10,000.00, requires an IRS form be filled out.
Use IRS Form 8300 (Report of Cash Payments Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business).
No, we didn't lose it bit by bit. We lost a whole bunch of something precious on September 11, 2001.
None on this forum are comfortable with the loss of our freedoms. Most are, however, willing to endure the loss for the short term while we rid our country of this Islamic trash.
I suspect many will join your choir if the government does not purge this element from our society within this decade and asks us to accept these realities as a long term solution.
Who said anything about giving up your gun? On the contrary, increased surveilance and gun control both flow from the same statist impulse. The statist "conservative" wants more surveilance, at least of Muslims; the statist "liberal" wants you to keep your gun home.
Only the true libertarian opposes both impulses.
They were not "acting suspicious." They were moving about the cabin. Lots of passengers move about airline cabins, to get a better seat after the plane takes off (more room to lie down, or watch the movie), or to talk to someone. They also paid cash. The govt prints cash. If they don't want us to use it, they shouldn't print it.
AAAHHH THE SKY IS FALLING
That's exactly your reaction if you see a Muslim (gasp!) moving about the cabin (gasp, gasp!).
Get a grip. It's because of that panicky paranoid attitude that planes get turned around for no reason.
I know the State wants me to believe there are terrorists under my bed. I know many "conservatives" already see Muslims in their closets and under their beds. Well, I've yet to reach that point or paranoia. Sorry.
On a flight last January, I took some photos from the plane window. I'm lucky I'm not Muslim, or else the plane might have been turned back with Air Force escort.
Were these "Middle Easterners" Americans? If so, they were our guys. They were Americans, same as you and me.
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