Comments on: Update on the story of the 6 imams who were removed from plane at Minneapolis/St. Paul International airport

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:21:16 +0000

From what I’ve read, the segmented armor provided the best protection and was the lightest. But with luck I’d get myself assigned to a scorpion or ballista crew and sit in the rear, cheering on the plucky legionaries. Or maybe get cushy duty as centurion in charge of the granaries.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:36:18 +0000

Actually I take it from the Lorica of St. Columba. A poem of Praise about the life of the Irish Saint who saved Christianity after the fall of Rome. I first heard about this, as I am not Catholic, from a musical band called Iona, named after the island where he established a monestary. If you have never heard of Iona they are one of the most fabulous groups every to come onto the Contemporary Celtic Christian Music.

If I were to pick a breast plate. It would be scale mail as it has such a cool look, or chain mail as it has good flexability. The plate armor looks good when all polished up tho. LOL Who can decide these things, until there is a need. – Lorica

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:59:00 +0000

Lorica, I think there’s a third possibility you haven’t addressed: this is intended to increase the already hypersensitive “kid glove” approach to anything Islamic, and reduce the possibility that anyone will dare react to provocative behaviour. It appears obvious that the six imams were attempting to provoke the exact response they did, in order to insulate their coreligionists in the future.

Incidentally, Lorica, I’ve been meaning to ask for some time now: Hamata, squamata, or segmentata?

By: seejanemom

seejanemom — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:52:10 +0000

Would the “legacy” media have wasted one precious drop of ink from their barrels if this was a Pro-Life group praying in the airport?

Yeah…I thought not.

By: Drewsmom

Drewsmom — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:58:33 +0000

Book em Dano.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:12:15 +0000

Bang wrote, “We should hold our legislators responsible in more direct ways, and then maybe someting will change.”

But how can we when the majority of us are duped by the negligent drive-by press.

They need to be held accountable for FALSIFIED information or something. It’s out of hand.

I don’t want to stifle free speech. I want to hold people accountable for being negligent or putting forth false information. They can freely print anything truthful or opinion as long as they state that it’s opinion. But we see opinion in news sections day in and day out with no end in sight.

By: Wake up America

Wake up America — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:50:29 +0000

Deliberately

No pattern here huh? I will repeat, those that cannot understand how we may be a “tad” sensitive to behavior that indicates a possible terrorist threat on our Airlines…. THE HELL WITH YOU. US Airways did the right thing and should be commended for …

By: Lorica

Lorica — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:12:35 +0000

If these guys weren't up to something dangerous, then they were staging a dry run so that others could. There is absolutely no reason for their behavior on that plane. This all reminds me of a Woman's Wall Steet Journal article I read a couple of years ago. LINK I hope that CAIR does pull off a boycott of this airline. They will guarantee that this will be the only airline I would fly. - Lorica

By: Big Bang Hunter

Big Bang Hunter — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:00:19 +0000

- the problem is, we’ve given a “free pass” to any sort of shananigons on the part of the press, and politicians are loath to do anything about it because of adverse publicity. We should hold our legislators responsible in more direct ways, and then maybe someting will change. Look how long it took the administration to finally move on the NYT leaks, and even now, so far its been fairly small compared to the offenses. We have to get tough about it, or things will just go on this way. Not easy, because the last thing anyone wants to do is stiffle free speech.

- Bang

By: Baklava

Baklava — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:12:58 +0000

BTW, This in an AP article:

The other passengers on the flight, which was carrying 141 passengers and five crew members, were re-screened for boarding. The plane took off about three hours after the men were removed.

It wasn’t just the 6 men who were incovenienced. The flight crew who were trying to do their due diligence take their job seriously it seems and the negligent media want to play monday morning quarterback (just like they do with Iraq) and act pitifully like they are smarter than the flight crew who were making decisions for the flight at the time of the evidence.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:52:37 +0000

I am so tired of the drive-by legacy press not doing thier due diligence and just repeating the imams claims of harrassment and that they were doing nothing but praying. EVERY day, we can point to story after story written with neglect and I would say criminal neglect. People are misinformed in story after story and what is the affect of this misinformation? A lack of national security, open borders, policy created with crisis mentality, race mongering, more government spending because people think there are cuts when there has been no reduction in government spending on any category any year for over 6 decades. On every subject we are lied to and just like doctors can be sued for neglect and companies for neglect which make an unsafe environment it may be time that the media can be sued for making an unsafe environment due to their neglect. I'd hate for it to come to that because then there would be lawsuits just for simply disagreeing with one another but the facts are the facts and reporters and journalists on TV and print have FAILED to do any digging into what the imams were removed for questioning for. Repeating an imams claims is NOT investigative journalism nor is it informative. It is neglect.

By: Big Bang Hunter

Big Bang Hunter — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:21:42 +0000

- The more you look into this “story”, the more it looks like a put up job, intended to try to play the US press, the way aL Jarazza plays the middle Est audiences. It’s pretty obvious the Muslims in question were doing as much as they could to look dangerous, including the important refusal to vacate the plane when told to by the Captain and flight attendents. Then wonders of all wonders, within the next newsday CAIR just happens to have a spokesman ready to go, with a prepared statement condemning the profiling, and concantemant denial of Constitutional rights, all ready to go, including a “call” for an inveatigation. This sort of thing really sells in theME, because the leaders of all the axis of evil countries have raised deflection of their own duplicity, and raping of their people, off on the great Satan, america, to an art form. Not so much here.

- Bang

By: Stop The ACLU

Stop The ACLU — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:48:42 +0000

The Grounded Imams; Stranger Behavior Than Prayers

Remember the Imams that CAIR was so quick to defend after they were booted from a Minneapolis flight last week? Remember how they claimed they were only praying and how humiliated they were by our reactions? They’ve been staging protests and m…