Here we go... again

Posted by MattFranke 11 years ago to News
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Well, well. This has all the makings of another media blitz against guns. An "anti-government extremist" with a gun, taking the first shots at the TSA. The timing on this is simply impeccable , because it will help draw some attention away from all Barry's other problems. One more thing that they can have some political theatrics over. One more situation that, surely must lead us to believe that we need them to keep us safe. This has the potential to turn into a big mess. The "war on terror" was a bait-and-switch from the beginning . It is now the people who are the enemy. This will only lead to an expansion of the powers of Homeland inSecurity, which will only cause more back-lash, which will require larger government, for our protection of course.
Assuming that this isn't some sort of staged incident, this may be a very significant moment in the course of this countries future. Could those be the next shots heard around the world? Or is this guy just a wing-nut loon like they say? What do you think??
SOURCE URL: http://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-agent-killed-lax-shooting-suspect-custody/story?id=20754881


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  • Posted by khalling 11 years ago
    If he was so anti-government, what was he doing working for the government in the first place?
    I see the standard media as unwitting dupes using the vernacular they always use to push an agenda(gun control) which could result in expansion of police powers. how many gun owners out there loved the creation of the TSA in the first place? I'll bet hundreds of thousands.
    I am more convinced than ever that as usual, the government does their job so poorly that the screening procedures for TSA agents which habitually grope, outright steal, and now kill fail. and these are the supposed safety "experts." I'd feel alot safer if they were gone and the airlines handled safety issues for their private companies privately.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years ago
    Rudolph in Atlanta or McVeigh in Oklahoma, the radical right and extreme patriots are only the mirror image of the Earth Liberation Left. Fundamentalist Christians or Fundamentalist Muslims are equally a threat to a free society. Good people and bad are found among all groups. It is a statistical fact that the differences WITHIN groups (Tea Party, bowlers, church-goers, art collectors, etc., etc.) are greater than the differences ACROSS groups.

    Pick your favorite enemy GROUP and within it you will find a lot of people to like. Consider your own ideological comrades, however, and you will find the enemy you fear the most.
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    • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years ago
      Get your terms straight.

      The right is reactionary, the left is radical. Government 101, 1980.

      How are fundamentalist Christians an equal threat as fundamentalist Moslems?? Christians haven't been going around executing their children in the name of Islam, nor flying airliners into buildings in the name of Islam.
      The last Christian violence occurred two years before McVeigh and Nichols bombed the Murrah building, when armed cultists defended their home from an unConstitutional assault.

      I'm amused at the term "extreme patriots"; I don't know of any "extreme patriots", I'd like you to define the term. Would "extreme patriots" include the gov't agents who, in body armor carrying real assault weapons with fingers on the trigger seized young Elian Gonzales to send him back to hell... I mean Cuba?

      You sound like someone who worships at the altar of moderation, thinking that by equating the two sides you can achieve some rational compromise between good and evil.

      To paraphrase Ayn Rand: "There are two sides to every issue. One side is always the right, the other side is always wrong (aka the left); but the middle is always evil".
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      • Posted by gblaze47 11 years ago
        " Christians haven't been going around executing their children in the name of Islam, nor flying airliners into buildings in the name of Islam" or beheading their wives.
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    • Posted by j_IR1776wg 11 years ago
      How do define "extreme patriots"? One of the appalling aspects of political discourse in America is the lack of definitions of words and phrases.
      For example, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" (Barry Goldwater). I understood this then and now. Whereas "Hope and Change" or "Fundamentally transforming America" (BO), I don't.
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  • Posted by 11 years ago
    Speaking of stirring the pot; may I offer this in reply to official stories of 9/11. I've spent over 100 hours researching just the happenings around it. I don't know what exactly happened, but I know what didn't happen, the official story. This is only one video of many. Sorry for the foreign subtitles and the audio not having a good sync; this full length version is hard to find on youtube.
    http://youtu.be/28ActkTVRng
    This always makes me see red.
    Oh, this is also a reply to Hiraghm about his Barbara Olsen comment below.
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    • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years ago
      I'm not going to sit through two hours of nonsense. What is your response about Barbara Olson? Is she alive living in South America somewhere? Was she flying the plane into the Pentagon? Was Ted Olson an agent of the Illuminati spreading disinformation?
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      • Posted by 11 years ago
        If you refuse to look at what happened, and educate yourself; then I must refuse to debate you. I don't know anyone with two brain cells to rub together, who thinks the official story is true. But, whatever helps you sleep at night.
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        • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years ago
          When you rub brain cells together...

          it kills them.

          Words mean things. Is the "official" version 100% accurate? Certainly not. Is the "official" version 100% true? Probably not.

          Do I think Barbara and Ted Olson were part of some conspiracy to panic the U.S. into attacking poor, innocent Moslems (who've been trying to harm us for decades)? Hell no.
          It requires no "official story" for me to figure out that we were attacked, and that Moslems were behind it, not the U.S. government.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years ago
    I want to know what kind of weapon he had. The one picture I've seen looked like a Ruger Mini-30, which is not an assault rifle.

    He looks like a kid who wanted to get attention and commit suicide by cop.

    Is there any more weapon restricted place than the airport, in Los Angeles, in California??
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