City Chatter: The Terrorists of Tiny Town: Homeland security keeping our country safe from kindergarteners (hey, they could be Al Qaeda...)

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They could be specially-trained Al-Queda midgets

They have these rules in place because its happened before..oh wait..no it hasn't..these are just chopf~~k rules

in other breaking news today, al-qaeda has formulated gene manipulation whereby their well trained adults are midgetized (probably a word from dubya's dictionary) and have blended in with our kindergarten population. this was all done by the vastly superior genetic engineering labs they have in caves in afghanistan funded by the opium trade.

So, Osama now has a "mini me" or rather "mini bin"?

[Carol&Marc 0]

Since new security regulations went into effect in May 1, 2005, access to the Visitor Center is restricted to United State citizens. All others might be terrorists.

Sent a link to my husband he pointed out the effectivity date to me. This was supposed to have taken effect way before we went to visit NASA. They asked for photo IDs just because we were going on the Cape Canaveral: Then and Now tour. We presented a Philippine passport for my 13-year old son and they didn't have a problem letting us go on that special tour (I had an NC DL by then). Guess we slipped under the radar at that time?????

Or maybe ..kindergarten kids are more prone to do acts of terrorism????

Just goes to show you shouldnt always beleive the BS people post!

[daisy16 0]

I think the kindergarten class would qualify for a yellow alert?

[Sister Fracas 5]

Since new security regulations went into effect in May 1, 2005, access to the Visitor Center is restricted to United State citizens. All others might be terrorists.

Sent a link to my husband he pointed out the effectivity date to me. This was supposed to have taken effect way before we went to visit NASA. They asked for photo IDs just because we were going on the Cape Canaveral: Then and Now tour. We presented a Philippine passport for my 13-year old son and they didn't have a problem letting us go on that special tour (I had an NC DL by then). Guess we slipped under the radar at that time?????

Or maybe ..kindergarten kids are more prone to do acts of terrorism????

Just goes to show you shouldnt always beleive the BS people post!

Or even the BS the government tries to scare you with

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Or maybe ..kindergarten kids are more prone to do acts of terrorism????

Just goes to show you shouldnt always beleive the BS people post!

Or even the BS the government tries to scare you with

touché

[JayJay 4]

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What are they going to do? Get in a spaceship, go to the moon, erase Neil Armstrong's footprints and plant an alternative flag in retaliation? Yeah....

[arwensun1965 0]

WoW what a bunch of scare mongering idiots, as if 6 year olds are going in with camera in one hand and a note book in the other not typical 6 year old acts lol all they want to see is the nice thingy me bob that goes up into space (thats how my twins said it once while on a trip to the Farnbrough Air Show) So are they going to stop activities like this as well??? The mind boggles at what kind of idiot works for the Government obviously no one with a 6 year old.

Janice

Edited February 10, 2006 by arwensun1965

[Carol&Marc 0]

Om Mohammed helps her twelve-year-old son Abu Ali with a toy suicide bomber belt he fashioned on his own.

"I hope to be a Martyr...I hope when I get 14 or 15 to explode myself." His mother is proud of her son: "God gave him to me to protect and defend our homeland." The family is seen in their Gaza City home, May 15, 2002. ( Maya Alleruzzo / The Washington Times ) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip May 15, 2002 -- Abu Ali, like many 12-year-olds living in Gaza, has dreams of eternity. But the Palestinian boy's hopes are rooted in a grim reality: "I hope to be a martyr," he said.

"I hope when I get to 14 or 15 to explode myself."His mother, Om Muhammed, is eager to help her son, one of six children, accomplish his goal. She helps him tug on a toy suicide bomber costume in her living room as she serves mint tea to a visitor.

The get-up is dauntingly convincing, but is harmlessly made of electrical tape, plywood and spare wire. Harmless for now, at least.

"I encourage him, and he should do this," said the woman, the mother of six. "God gave him to me to defend our land.

Palestinian women must have more and more children till we liberate our land. This is a holy duty for all Palestinian people.

"Little Ali, masked in a kaffiyeh and carrying a toy gun made of pipes, marched earlier today in a demostration marking Al Nakba or " the catastrophe," as Palestinians refer to the day Israel was founded in 1948. Given Abu Ali's start in life, his future might seem inevitable. Walking through the streets of Gaza City, one can see young boys playing with toy Kalashnikovs and slingshots beneath the walls painted with graffiti depicting masked Hamas fighters, grenades, exploding buses.

Jobs in nearby Tel Aviv dried up for Palestinians from Gaza after the latest intifada began once peace talks broke down in 2000.

The Israelis closed the border crossings in an attempt to stop the Palestinian suicide bombers from blowing up themselves and Israeli civilians on buses, in cafes, supermarkets and restaurants.

But the bombers still make it through from other places. The killing and maiming of mostly innocent Israelis by these young Palestinians has only made life harder for the rest of the Palestinian people.

Even for Gazans with local jobs, road closings often leave them sleeping at the Israeli checkpoints.

Students from the south now sleep in tents at Al Aqsa University, lest they risk missing classes when the roads close. With no passports, Palestinians cannot travel. If jobs here are scarce, there is one man who is making enough to support his family.

Twenty-four-year-old Bahaa Yassin paints most of the portraits of martyrs seen in the Gaza Strip. Before the intifada, he did a variety of artwork to support himself and his wife. Family portraits, shop signs, and the occasional martyr.

Now, about 70 percent of his business comes from these large, loving tributes to the young fighters.Funeral marches are a citywide event. Young boys march -- usually five kilometers from the hospital to the graveyard -- alongside men shooting live rounds into the air.

Hisham Zaqout, whose nephew Youssef, 15, was killed when he tried to infiltrate an Israeli settlement, say the well-wishers, posters and artistic tributes have helped ease the family's pain.

"In Islam, sacrifice is the highest honor, " he says.

"Youssef did this for all of us to be free."The irony of his words is that the continued bombings and Israeli responses to them only continues the cycle of violence and hopelessness that has led to a downward spiral in the lives of both the Israelis and Palestinians.

Maya Alleruzzo is a staff photojournalist at The Washington Times in Washington, D.C.

It's a mothers love that makes them grow

A society that encourages death for it's children:

"I encourage him, and he should do this," said the woman, the mother of six. "God gave him to me to defend our land. "Palestinian women must have more and more children till we liberate our land. This is a holy duty for all Palestinian people."

Combined with the cowardly tactic of Palestinian "fighters" who fire on Israeli's from behind woman and children and it is a surprise to no one that Palestinian children die.

It is done on purpose for the lame PR points of saying: "Now, look at my dead child"

Do you think that the rest of the civilized world is not on to this tactic?

Again, spare us your selective "outrage".

It was the terrorism, stupid.

They love their children

Guess between their leadership that demonstrates such contempt for their people the parents feel that they can demonstrate that same contempt and selfishness as well by sending out their children to do their fighting for them.

I guess that old Golda Meir quote really plays out:

"There will be peace when the Arabs love their children more than they hate others."

Of course this is not true for all Arabs.

Watch what you say! it is possible!

http://www.betar.co.uk/articles/betar1059578683.php

[Carol&Marc 0]

Or maybe this will make some of you laugh and joke! Ignorance is bliss!

http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=906#

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Watch what you say!

Watch your sources: Betar Tagar might just be a little less than objective when it comes to painting a picture of the Palestinians. I'm sure there are fringe groups in Palestine that would have no problem writing a smiliarly disturbing story about folks in Israel. Not that any of either would have any basis in fact but it makes for good reading for some, I suppose. You seem to enjoy this kind of stuff.

Here's how Betar-Tagar sees itself:

Betar Tagar UK. The Active Zionist Youth and Student Movements in England. The only movement that actively stands up for Israel and Jews NO MATTER WHAT!

Nice try, though...

[Fischkoepfin 1]

So you think the NASA-policy which includes all non-citizen children is justified because of a few kids who turn suicide bombers in Israel/Palestine? And how exactly does the article you posted relate to the US?

The way I see it, the policy rather than protecting national security will cause non-citizen children to feel excluded from American life; it is this artificial boundary that makes it more likely that they will react violently to this act of oppression one day. Just take a look at France or the Netherlands if you need some support for my theory.

[Carol&Marc 0]

Watch what you say!

Watch your sources: Betar Tagar might just be a little less than objective when it comes to painting a picture of the Palestinians. I'm sure there are fringe groups in Palestine that would have no problem writing a smiliarly disturbing story about folks in Israel. Not that any of either would have any basis in fact but it makes for good reading for some, I suppose. You seem to enjoy this kind of stuff.

Here's how Betar-Tagar sees itself:

Betar Tagar UK. The Active Zionist Youth and Student Movements in England. The only movement that actively stands up for Israel and Jews NO MATTER WHAT!

Nice try, though...

Rationalize it away,you will always find the opposite opinion, I love it? c'mon! I didnt start this thread, just trying to show the seriousness of the subject, also when you see something that you disagree with, Theres always a little personal attack, "I suppose. You seem to enjoy this kind of stuff."

[SteveLaura 0]

So this guy would have been allowed in, then? Excellent.

[pax 0]

Don't you understand? Any sense of fairness and rationality injected into our security policy will allow the terrorists to win.

Excuse me, I have to polish my life-size portrait of Dear Leader.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

So this guy would have been allowed in, then? Excellent.

Of course. See, we just don't want to be blown up by a furrin jerkoff.

Edited February 10, 2006 by ET-US2004