Subject:  WHICH ONE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS TO AMERICA? |
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Jackie Juntti
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Date Posted: 08:53:55 12/31/09 Thu
NOTE: This is a resend as I missed a big error in the first post and have now corrected it.
WHICH ONE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS TO AMERICA?
Jackie Juntti
12/31/09
There were many articles I could have picked to make my point - this one below just happened to be the one I hit after thinking about my question to readers.
We have top news headlines - thousands of articles - constant TV coverage and talk show chattering about the Nigerian who put blasting powder in his shorts and got on an airplane - flew to the US and failed to blow his nuts off.
I guess the reason the following article caught my eye is because it lists *Republicans* as *seizing* this event to bolster their chances in the next election.
Well, where are these stalwart Republicans on the issue of a FOREIGN KENYON hijacker sitting in the Oval Office? So far all I have heard is SILENCE - The SILENCE OF CONSENT by 99.99% of the GOP mouths. They get all upset over one Nigerian Muslim on an airplane carrying roughly 200 people but remain stone silent on the Foreign ILLEGAL Muslim Occupying our highest office.
Where were all the GOP mouths over one KENYAN MUSLIM who succeeded in OCCUPYING The Oval Office? Where are they NOW? Why isn't this issue in SCOTUS and the Kenyan deported?
Think about the amount of DAMAGE those two individual hold in their hands.
One Nigerian = 200 people.
One Kenyan = the entire nation of America.
Now, WGEN readers, WHICH ONE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS TO AMERICA?
Will the same effort be put forth to prosecute the Kenyan as is being done to the Nigerian?
Jackie Juntti
WGEN idzrus@earthlink.net
Pray for a New Year that returns God to this nation.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a9747974-f49c-11de-9cba-00144feab49a.html
Republicans seek political advantage
By Anna Fifield in Washington
Published: December 29 2009 17:16 | Last updated: December 29 2009 17:16
Republicans have seized on the Christmas day attempted terrorist attack as evidence that Democrats are weak on national security issues, as they seek to bolster their credentials ahead of next year’s congressional elections.
As the Obama administration’s investigation into how a 23-year-old Nigerian was able to carry explosives on to a US-bound aircraft gathers pace, a slew of Republicans have criticised everything from the timing of the president’s first public comments to his plans to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
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“Soft talk about engagement, closing Gitmo, these things are not going to appease the terrorists,” said Jim DeMint, a Republican senator from South Carolina.
“They’re going to keep coming after us, and we can’t have politics as usual in Washington, and I’m afraid that’s what we’ve got right now with airport security,” Mr DeMint told Fox News.
Barack Obama, US president, answered such critics on Tuesday with a surprisingly blunt admission that “human and systemic failures” were to blame for allowing the 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to board the aircraft.
His insistence of a preliminary report on investigators’ initial findings by Thursday will also go some way to rebutting some analysts’ suggestions that the president is gaining a reputation for taking his time to consider before making security decisions.
Security has been tightened at airports across the US and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting an inquiry into how the incident happened.
Republicans had been emboldened by the administration’s faltering response to the attempted attack. Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, on Sunday said “the system worked” but later performed a U-turn, saying that it did not work and “no one is happy with that”, comments that were reinforced by Mr Obama on Tuesday.
Peter Hoekstra, a congressman from Michigan and ranking Republican of the House intelligence committee, said the suspect should have had a red flag next to his name.
“You would have thought this would go right to the top of the list,” Mr Hoekstra told CBS on Tuesday. “This threat is real . . . We need to be on offence.”
Americans traditionally perceive Republicans to be strong on national security issues. But the party’s tactics in this case could backfire.
“If this line of attack continues, it is going to reveal problems not just with the Obama administration but with the homeland security system, a system that was put in place by President [George W.] Bush,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor at Princeton University.
“If Republicans want hearings into what happened, it could very well raise questions about Bush-era failures and that would be politically dangerous.”
Some Democrats are already pointing to Repub-lican obstructionism on national security matters.
More than 100 Republicans in the House voted against the Department of Homeland Security’s 2010 appropriation bill funding airport security measures, including explosives detection systems.
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