9/11: The Hijackers Were Soldiers, The Speech Police Are Terrorists

[slim 1,533]

When you have a nation of morons that's raised on texting, facebook, and reality TV shows this is what happens. Most of these peeps couldn't find Iraq on a globe yet they wave that flag. It's getting worse, not better.

This is why it's important for us all, EVERYONE, to do something about it.

Get out there and teach people about the government. Teach them about the constitution and what it says. What we should be doing. What type of government we should have.

Wake them up!

[slim 1,533]

I'm afraid to exercise the full-spectrum of my First Amendment rights because, as a Palestinian-American Muslim, I can be labeled an enemy of the state by some faceless bureaucrat under the Patriot Act, stripped of the rest of my constitutional rights and detained indefinitely. That can even happen just by unknowingly practicing zakat with the "wrong" organization.

It's not just you. The legal precedent has been set that ANYONE deemed a threat to national security can be masked, zip tied, and on their way to Cuba without so much as a warning.

Folks, that's real. And if you're not scared by your government having the legal right to do so... you should be.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I miss complex and critical thinking

Of course not, but that doesn't change what many see as reality. In the absence of complex thinking, perception really is reality.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

It's not just you. The legal precedent has been set that ANYONE deemed a threat to national security can be masked, zip tied, and on their way to Cuba without so much as a warning.

Folks, that's real. And if you're not scared by your government having the legal right to do so... you should be.

You're right, it's not just me, but American Muslims are under additional scrutiny. Just by attending masjid or contributing to Islamic charities, we open ourselves up to close government examination. I don't believe church or synagogue attendees have that to consider each week.

[slim 1,533]

You're right, it's not just me, but American Muslims are under additional scrutiny. Just by attending masjid or contributing to Islamic charities, we open ourselves up to close government examination. I don't believe church or synagogue attendees have that to consider each week.

Not yet.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

You're right, it's not just me, but American Muslims are under additional scrutiny. Just by attending masjid or contributing to Islamic charities, we open ourselves up to close government examination. I don't believe church or synagogue attendees have that to consider each week.

Correct me if I'm wrong...but I do believe it might have something to do with flying in a plane and wanting to land in one piece.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I miss complex and critical thinking

I hesitate to use the term "critical thinking" anymore. In modern education, that has become the Newspeak term for disinformation and the oxymoron "correct thinking".

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Correct me if I'm wrong...but I do believe it might have something to do with flying in a plane and wanting to land in one piece.

Remember when plane hijackings to Cuba were a recreational sport so common they became a joke? No Patriot Act back then.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Remember when plane hijackings to Cuba were a recreational sport so common they became a joke? No Patriot Act back then.

The difference was that those planes actually "landed in Cuba" in one piece.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The difference was that those planes actually "landed in Cuba" in one piece.

And, we still most often land in one piece today.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

And, we still most often land in one piece today.

That's kind of like when those peeps tell me flying in a plane is safer than driving a car. I say bs to them. Spinning out of control in a car is no fun, but I would rather take my chances on flat ground and four wheels then thousands of feet in the air with nothing more than a hope and a prayer.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Not yet.

This is it in a nut shell to me. It is what I want every American to realize can happen to all of us. If we demonize all of a certain people now then how long before we ourselves are demonized? These laws that have been put in place to keep us safe supposedly can be used against ANYONE. I remember when the Patriot act happened that we heard that if we are doing nothing to cause the Feds to come after us then why worry? The reason we have to worry is that when the constitution can be ignored for the supposed good then a line has been crossed that makes it seem OK to trash any part of that document.

I personally think that most Muslims are just like us. Hard working, God fearing, family types, that just want to live a good life and try our best to do good. At the least the few Muslim families in my neighborhood does and they also come to the same B.B.Q., same events and we all talk about the same things. I have seen none with horns or rant and scream about Jihad. A few weeks ago a couple that used to come over and join said that they stopped because of the very few Muslims started joining us. I was proud of a friend that I would least expect to say this but he said, "well you are not missed at all and they were more than welcome to join us." I concurred and said that to please stay away when I next host the B.B.Q. Besides he always brought the most crappy beer and Omar always brings the good beer.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

That's kind of like when those peeps tell me flying in a plane is safer than driving a car. I say bs to them. Spinning out of control in a car is no fun, but I would rather take my chances on flat ground and four wheels then thousands of feet in the air with nothing more than a hope and a prayer.

No puddle jumper in your front yard? What kind of Alaskan are you?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

No puddle jumper in your front yard? What kind of Alaskan are you?

I flew for years back and forth to work on a 737 from Anchorage to the Slope and I hated every minute of it. I can remember flying to Fairbanks back in the day for dinner on a friends Cessna and him getting so drunk that on the way back home he asked us if any of us wanted to take over the controls because he was about to pass out. This is right after he left the beer on the wing before take off and all we had left was a half empty jug of tequila. We ended up running out of gas on that flight and coasting into the airport at Talkeetna were we proceeded to siphon someones plane of gas so we could make it back to Merrill Field in Anchorage...all this on a work night to boot.

Ya, fck flying is all I have to say.

Edited September 12, 2011 by Why_Me

[Sofiyya 1,687]

At least you landed in one piece. I was in three, yes, three plane crashes in the interior, walking away each time, thank God. But, ya, the drinking thing can get in the way of proper flying, as it does for so many things up there

I flew for years back and forth to work on a 737 from Anchorage to the Slope and I hated every minute of it. I can remember flying to Fairbanks back in the day for dinner on a friends Cessna and him getting so drunk that on the way back home he asked us if any of us wanted to take over the controls because he was about to pass out. This is right after he left the beer on the wing before take off and all we had left was a half empty jug of tequila. We ended up running out of gas on that flight and coasting into the airport at Talkeetna were we proceeded to siphon someones plane of gas so we could make it back to Merrill Field in Anchorage...all this on a work night to boot.

Ya, fck flying is all I have to say.