Obama is not satisfied with a near miss, he wants competency and accountability. ------- Obama says we are at war
http://www.thefoxnation.com/president-obama/2010/01/08/obama-we-are-war On Jan 11, 10:11 am, VT Sean Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > LMAO, > > shooting a gun in a pressurized cabin would have the same effect as > a bomb, so claiming if Americans could carry guns on plains > would have prevented 9/11 is a joke! > > Obama was upset because the system did not work as well as it should > have on ALL levels. A type error allowed the terrorist on board. his > name was misspelled by one letter. > > Unlike Bush and his LIE explaining 9/11 as an event no one could have > foreseen, Obama is not satisfied with a near miss, he wants competency > and accountability. > > For this Republicans are complaining? It is the Bush system of HLS > that caused the log jam in the first place. > > On Jan 11, 10:58 am, "M. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Can the Government Keep Us Safe?by Andrew P. Napolitano > > What a week we have all just endured! While the Democrats were re-writing > > the federal takeover of healthcare behind closed doors, the public face of > > the federal government was fixated on denying and then explaining all the > > gaps in its intelligence gathering. The Obama administration has been > > finger-pointing over who in the government let a murderous thug on a plane > > in Amsterdam that he tried to explode over Detroit. First, the government > > said that the system worked. Then the President said it didn’t. Then he > > announced that the intelligence communities and security people would start > > to talk to each other so the bad guys could be kept out. Weren’t they > > supposed to be doing this all along? > > At Newark Liberty Airport last Sunday, a TSA agent left his post, and a > > young man walked past it to kiss his girlfriend good-bye. Then the young > > man turned and left the secured area and left the airport. So far no harm, > > no foul. But because the government’s surveillance cameras in the airport > > didn’t work, the feds panicked and ordered over 10,000 passengers to leave > > the terminal, go out into the 15-degree Newark, NJ cold at night, and then > > re-enter the airport. Flights were delayed and missed, kids did not get to > > school on Monday morning, and soldiers were listed as AWOL. All because the > > government overreacted to a kiss. This humiliated the feds: New Jersey's > > 86-year-old senior Senator Frank Lautenberg demanded that the guy who > > kissed his gal be hunted down and prosecuted because of the chaos he > > caused. He caused? Let’s see; the government has cameras that watch us > > every time we scratch our noses, and when those cameras don’t work, the > > government blames the person whose picture it was supposed to be taking? > > Come on. > > All this, of course, brings out the false argument of liberty versus > > security. And we hear it from the Progressives that the government must > > take our freedoms in order to keep us safe. That’s hogwash. Freedom is our > > birthright. It doesn’t come from the government; it is part of our > > humanity. America is the only country in the history of the world dedicated > > to the truism that we are endowed by our Creator, as Jefferson wrote, with > > certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the > > pursuit of happiness. The government has forgotten basic civics: "Endowed > > by our Creator" means that our rights come from God and not from the feds. > > "Inalienable" means that we and our freedoms cannot be separated, unless > > and until we are convicted by a jury of violating someone else’s rights. > > What is the value of being safe if we are not free? Did our forefathers > > flee the kings and despots of Europe and come here to be safe? Did Patrick > > Henry say "Give me safety or give me death?" Here is the mistake that the > > Big Government crowd wants to thrust upon us: They want to balance liberty > > and safety. There is no such thing as balance when it comes to freedom. We > > will not trade freedom for anything, or balance it against anything, and we > > certainly won't give it up to the TSA. > > Can the government keep us safe? I don’t think so. Airline travel is safer > > today because pilots have guns, cockpit doors are like bank vaults, and the > > passengers have become courageous. All this was done by individuals in the > > private sector, not by the government. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it > > again, if the feds had not stripped us of our natural rights to keep > > ourselves safe – by keeping and bearing arms – 9/11 would never have > > happened. How about letting the airlines decide who gets on the planes, > > rather than a TSA worker who leaves his post? When industry competes for > > your business, you fly where you want to go, you get there in comfort and > > safety, and you do all this at a competitive cost. When the government runs > > the show, you stand in the cold night air for six hours because of a kiss. > > The government can’t deliver the mail, it can’t operate surveillance > > cameras at an airport; it can't pay back its debts; it can't tell the > > truth. That would be the same government that wants to manage your > > healthcare. > > America, do you see what happens when we rely on the government too much? > > It gets authoritarian and we get weak. Our children grow to expect from the > > government what we once did for ourselves. Government is a fearful master. > > It is not faithful to us; it is not truthful to us; it can’t produce for > > us. It doesn’t obey its own laws; it doesn’t keep us safe; and it won’t > > leave us alone. It is mortgaging our futures, raising our taxes, and > > treating us all like children. > > What to do? Challenge it at every turn. Expose it to friend and foe. > > Educate all you know about what you see and hear every day on this show. > > And return no one to the government who has stolen your freedom. > > And one other thing: The God who gave us life also gave us liberty. He > > loves us. Praise Him from the roof tops, and ask Him to save us from a > > government that is out of > > control.http://www.lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano13.1.html- Hide > > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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