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| video source: http://www.youtube.com/v/2Qdb6wC0Iz4 | BUMBLING OBAMA DRAGGING US INTO REAL DISASTER PREAMBLE: While a Moslem student, under Oba-Hussein's support of Islam, sues a teacher for mentioning ham (food) in class and parents being asked to sign permission slips for their children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to our nation in school, our Marxist- Islamist President ignores our safety and security and pushes through a HORRIBLY flawed START nulcear treaty with Russia (which out-maneouvered him in the details), prefering to push his self-gratifying aims and allowing America to face destruction by HIS actions. |
Wikileaks has divulged how the Obama Administration knew that Manuel Zelaya was an anti-democratic anti-Semitic pig whose goal was to become ruler for life like his buddy Hugo Chavez. But, Team Obama decided to support him for the greater good of Latin American relations. Barack Obama even cut off aid to Honduras in order to appease tyrant Hugo Chavez.
Either Obama and his team - formal or the czars - are a total bunch of MORONS or they have an anti-America agenda by supporting , facilitating and encouraging our enemies - whether the Marxist ones like Chavez or the Islamic ones who have infiltrated (through his help) the highest levels of our government and high positions in our MILITARY.
The equally idiotic Democrat Majority in the now FORMER Congress, that demanded we pass Bills to see what is in them (not knowing themselves for what they were voting) voted to pass the totally flawed START treaty (with a dozen traiterous Republicans) that now prevents us from defending ourselves against EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) nuclear weapons that can reach us from Venezuela.
Note: EMP's do not kill or easily harm humans BUT wipe out electronic circuitry (in factories, banks, vehicles, traffic light controls, even your microwave oven, thus bringing commerce, transporation and financial structures to a halt and destroying America more certainly - or at best as certainly - as Hiroshima type of explosive weapons.
With Oba-Hussein's real track record, not his self-proclaimed one, is it any wonder that approaching on nearly half of Americans think he is a Moslem, not a Christian like 95% of them, and does NOT share the same ideals and principles and love of America they do.
His actions underline and give credence to this opinion!
Note: Iran Shahab 3 and newer Shahab 4 missiles can EASILY reach the southern part of the USA and Iran is spanning the globe to find and hire nuclear scientists to develop nuclear WEAPONS capacity.
- By ALAN PETERS
- For many years involved with intelligence and security matters in Iran with significant access at top levels during the rule of the Shah, until early 1979. Currently an Iran SME (subject matter expert), analyst/commentator, and multi-linguist. (article source: http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/12/ideologue-obama-dragging-us-into-real.html)
"I PREFER TO DIE ON MY FEET THAN LIVE ON MY KNEEs." من مرگ ایستاده روی پای خود را بر زندگی خم شده روی زانو ترجیح میدهم
Stop Granny’s pat-down
By Iain Murray, BostonHerald.com, Op-Ed, Tuesday, December 28, 2010
article source: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20101228stop_grannys_pat-down/srvc=home&position=also
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, recently told The Atlantic in an interview that “we’ll never eliminate risk” of terrorist attacks on aviation.
He’s right, which is why the TSA’s policy of treating everyone as an equal risk is so misguided. It has led to the outrages of the past few weeks and the public backlash against the TSA. We need to scuttle the TSA’s equal-risk policy in favor of one that concentrates on genuine potential risks.
Pistole sounds reasonable, presenting the TSA’s current policies as the best we can do in trying circumstances.
The trouble is in the policy’s application. The individual performance of TSA officers is highly variable.
The case of the “Baywatch” actress singled out for additional screening is particularly interesting for the TSA’s response. An agency spokesman said that “people who are celebrities shouldn’t be surprised if and when they’re recognized.” This makes no sense. If they’re recognized as not terrorists, then why should they have to go through enhanced security without additional information that they may be a threat? Perhaps terrorist “chatter” that day suggested that a former “Baywatch” star might be planning a mid-air atrocity, but I seriously doubt it.
To end these outrages and to bring accountability back to airport screening, the TSA’s monopoly as a nationalized screening industry must end. A 2007 study for the TSA found that private screeners consistently outperformed the TSA bureaucrats, so the TSA suppressed it, earning the agency censure from the Government Accountability Office. Airports should be allowed to opt out of the federal system and hire their own screeners, who will be more responsive to customers, and must comply with federal regulations.
In addition, to cut down on lines and speed up the process, certain categories of passengers should be given a degree of dispensation from screening. As international security guru Edward Luttwak put it, “easily recognizable groups that not even the most ingenious terrorists could simulate” should not be viewed as equal in risk to other groups or individuals. Examples include “touring senior citizens traveling together (a category that contains a good portion of all American, European and East Asian tourist traffic), airline flying personnel who come to the security gate as a crew, families complete with children.”
As Luttwak suggests, the critical question would be whether members of those groups “recognize each other as such.”
Another solution would be the institution of a robust frequent-traveler system that would enable members who undergo extensive background checks to bypass security, or at the very least not have to remove shoes and belts before going through. Airlines, which employ up to 150 people each to run their frequent flyer schemes, could be given this responsibility to avoid it becoming yet another government bureaucracy.
In the end, detecting terrorists at the airport could become more like detecting shoplifters. It would lead to an unpleasant experience for the guilty and a pleasurable experience for the rest of us. It might even attract people back on to planes and reassure us that the federal government can read the Fourth Amendment. Even John Pistole might see the benefits of that.
Iain Murray works for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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