Longest flight...Ever!

[Grammatron]

hhhmmmm, so if I'm a police officer and I see a bunch of Muslims in a rental van parked outside a Federal Building, hey, at least it's not Christians so I should leave them alone!

How would you know there a bunch of Muslims in a van?

Point being that before 9/11 a Muslim pilot would be treated the same, now if a Muslim pilot did the same thing there would be extra investigation because of 9/11. Would that really be such a horrible thing?

 

[ceo_esq]

hhhmmmm, so if I'm a police officer and I see a bunch of Muslims in a rental van parked outside a Federal Building, hey, at least it's not Christians so I should leave them alone!

Good point, but just to keep things in perspective, the Muslims have a virtually insurmountable lead over the Christians both in terms of number of jets intentionally crashed into office buildings and number of vans detonated outside U.S. government facilities. But who's counting?

 

[LFTKBS]

Good point, but just to keep things in perspective, the Muslims have a virtually insurmountable lead over the Christians both in terms of number of jets intentionally crashed into office buildings and number of vans detonated outside U.S. government facilities.

Like this fine Muslim right here?

 

[kittynh]

Before 9-11 white supremists were our most experienced terrorits in the US. That and I would include the abortion rights activists - a largely white population. My neighbor works with teenagers at the local high school. The worst part of her job is escorting kids to the local Planned Parenthood, usually just for a free check up (they do lots of stuff besides abortions). Looking at the crowd that ends up protesting there, I'd say middle aged, slightly over weight, women wearing skirts even in the middle of winter are a terrorist threat (at least based on what they say..."murderers, you should die!")

So, let's check out the muslims, let's check out the white terror groups, let's check out retired Weathermen....but let's check people out!


It should be noted I always add a half hour to my airport check in time when travelling with my daughter. She has a passport full of pages of visas and such all in Arabic. They take the extra time to search everything...multiple times. I don't complain, I think it's a wise precaution.

 

[Cleon]

Before 9-11 white supremists were our most experienced terrorits in the US. That and I would include the abortion rights activists - a largely white population.

Based on the rest of your post, can we assume you meant "anti-abortion activists?"

 

[Grammatron]

Like this fine Muslim right here?

Yes, just like him. And FBI is/was very active in infiltrating and stopping those groups. However, none of them have used a plane as a bomb yet and none that I know of have used suicide bombers.

Once again, what would be so wrong if extra investigation would be done if the pilot was Muslim?

P.S. How goes that research on data from Nevada?

 

[ceo_esq]

Like this fine Muslim right here?

You're just reiterating Kitty's point, which I already acknowledged was valid. We all caught her allusion to the non-Muslim Timothy McVeigh. However, my point was that, notwithstanding McVeigh and the terrible harm he inflicted, the number of non-Muslims who have blown up vans outside U.S. government facilities in the last quarter-century is - let's be honest - statistically insignificant.

Originally posted by kittynh
That and I would include the abortion rights activists - a largely white population. My neighbor works with teenagers at the local high school. The worst part of her job is escorting kids to the local Planned Parenthood, usually just for a free check up (they do lots of stuff besides abortions). Looking at the crowd that ends up protesting there, I'd say middle aged, slightly over weight, women wearing skirts even in the middle of winter are a terrorist threat (at least based on what they say..."murderers, you should die!")

They're a threat, all right - but again, there's a reason why they're so far down on Homeland Security's list of priorities. If these folks got equal billing with Al-Qaeda, it would be a tremendously inefficient use of both government resources and John Q. Citizen's already-limited attention. Consider that in the 9-year span from 1989 through 1997, there were an average of two murders or attempted murders committed annually by anti-abortion extremists. Those are unacceptably high figures, of course, but any self-respecting Islamist terrorist commits, attempts or conspires more murders than that before breakfast every day.

 

[kittynh]

Very true. I think it just proves the point that any group with what they consider good enough an agenda, will commit a terrorist act, including murder.

Seriously, case in point, when Mr.Randi tells me to take out John Edwards or Sylvia...I'm cleaning the Uzi and signing up for free tickets to Montel.

 

[a_unique_person]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110791,00.html

apparently the pilot was still on his Jesus high from his missionary work.

from the article...

An American Airlines pilot asked Christians on his flight to identify themselves and discuss their religion with non-Christian passengers, the airline said.


wow, that takes nerve. As if a flight cross-country isn't bad enough.

No, I was just on the longest flight. over 14 hours from LA to Melbourne non-stop.

 

[Bottle or the Gun]

Here's a link to Daryl Cagle's Cartoon Index, with a good cartoon by Jeff Parker.

Daryl Cagle Index

Jeff Parker's page