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07.14.2008 5:20 pm

A million names on the list, but TSA still has wrong priorities

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

According to some estimates the terrorist watch list has reached 1,000,000 names. WOW!!! I guess being on it no longer gets you a good table at the Terrorist Café since it is obvious that they are including a whole lot of marginal members and probably more than a few wannabe’s. And probably a fair amount of people that are merely critics of the Bushcheney regime and its uncounted violations of our civil rights. I wouldn’t be surprised if my name is on it. Guess I’ll find out this Christmas when I try to get on a plane to join my wife’s family on a holiday cruise. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m beginning to think that airport security is getting to be pretty much of a joke. They stop little old ladies but homeless people can sneak onto a plane for a nap. The list of what you can or can’t take on board seems to change on a weekly basis, and then you hear news stories of people who are testing security getting past it with guns. In the meantime our economy seems to be headed for the toilet because of housing speculators, greedy and stupid lenders, greedy oil companies and speculators, and we’re spending billions on a border fence that will probably primarily reduce the supply of gardeners, kitchen help, and office cleaners. But what do you expect from an administration that claims we conquered Iraq to save it but won’t let them decide when we leave, which I think would make us an army of occupation. Just remember what we learned in Vietnam - sometimes you have to destroy a village to save it. As the English say, bloody brilliant!!!

John A. Joseph

St. Louis

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4 comments

John-

Do keep us informed if the evil bloodthirsty Bush/Cheney/Hitler cabal has put your name on the terrorist watch list. We can hardly stand the suspense!! Please, somebody, remind me to breathe!! Why, I’ll bet that the evil ringleader himself, george W, is peeking into your windows RIGHT NOW to see what nafarious plot you’ve hatched that will certainly bring down his satanic reign. The BushCheney intelligence report on John A Joseph is probably a few hours old, and another update is a few hours away, so evil W will want to eyeball his archnemesis personally!! Having the KH-11 spy satellites fly over your house 8 times per day isn’t enough!

It’s time for a new entry under “Paranoia” in Webster’s Dictionary. It’s amazing how one person can rant while not including a single fact or specific example to support his laundry list of allegations. Name for me one opponent of the Bushcheney regeime who is on the terrorist watch list soley because of their opposition to the President. Cite the “countless violations of civil rights”. Cite this week’s list of things that cannot be brought on a plane, and cite how it differs from last week’s list. Cite the stories of people getting on plnaes with guns. Cite how greedy speculators are driving up oil prices.

I thought it was evil W who saw a bogeyman behind every tree and around every corner!

— tim jones
6:13 pm July 14th, 2008

John A. Joseph:

“In the meantime our economy seems to be headed for the toilet because of housing speculators, greedy and stupid lenders, greedy oil companies and speculators, and we’re spending billions on a border fence that will probably primarily reduce the supply of gardeners, kitchen help, and office cleaners.”

I’ve read many of your letters Mr. Joseph and in this, more than any of the others, you’ve taken negativity to new heights by the revengeful lashing out at anything but the true source of your bitterness.

It’s not especially shameful to have a family dispute settled by being chased from the house into a dark corner of the garage by a hairy fisted, muscular spouse,although except for liberal homes, it’s usually the “man” of the house that does the chasing.

— Iconoclastic Sage
5:21 am July 15th, 2008

The “I am a mad dog biting myself for sympathy” tenor of Mr. Joseph’s letter makes it all too easy to dismiss some of the more salient points of his missive. The size and scope of the terrorist watch list have indeed grown to the point of unwieldiness. Personally, I am not affected; I simply no longer fly. It is not aerophobia that I suffer from, but I’ve developed a severe anxiety of airports. The Department of Homeland Security, the unwanted stepchild of Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, is hampered by the same symptoms that make themselves manifest in all other branches of the federal government. Too many bored, overpaid, nameless, faceless paper pushers making policy to justify their existence. Their motto: “It’s not good enough for government, unless it’s so complex no one follows it.” These same people write tax code. They owe their positions, their staffs and offices, their salaries and perks to elected representatives, looking to avoid any real common sense decision making, through cronyism and good ol’ American payola. They have no responsibility; they have unlimited authority. They have infected every facet of government. They are the chief reason that fellow posters like I. Sage, Si Vis, JD, and tim jones will never trust government with their health care. I often sympathize with that position myself.

— Commander Barkfeather
7:40 am July 15th, 2008

yap! Yap!! YAP!! Once again we hear from the “Axis of Ignorance,” jones, not a sage and barf-feather!

Where’s Centwisted and sick and vicious?

Probably just going down the stairs into mommie’s basement like the rest of you clowns to log on and yap some more!

The point, gentle idiots, is that the country is going to hades in a handbasket, and its BushMcCain’s fault!

Vote Democratic in ‘08!

The life you save may be your own!

— Tim Hogan
1:01 pm July 15th, 2008