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[somedaybitch]

the government that would handle your health care, ladies and gentlemen.

they give a visa to a guy who's own father dimes him off as possibly being a jihadist radical, but the State Department can't bother to follow it up? really?

too bad that this guy isn't Islamic. then maybe he'd stand a chance at getting his visa renewed.

oh country. you bizarre thing, you.

this, however, is equally more disturbing.

For an added and disturbing wrinkle, INTERPOL's central operations office in the United States is within our own Justice Department offices. They are American law enforcement officers working under the aegis of INTERPOL within our own Justice Department. That they now operate with full diplomatic immunity and with "inviolable archives" from within our own buildings should send red flags soaring into the clouds.

giving Interpol sovereign immunity to operate on US soil, without having to answer to US law certainly qualifies as Change. not so much, Hope, though.

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[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

y'know... I think people compartmentalize government and what things it sets out to accomplish, and that is how some can think univ. health care will work quite well, while they think the IRS or DOD is something evil. Those organizations need things from you or are mean, while social programs are seen as being 'nice' and giving you stuff.

That the same management ideas apply to all govt. branches must seem counterintuitive to them.

On the PantyBomber thing [heh, Amy Alkon coined...] Do they have to go through some kind of US-TSA run checkpoint to get on a US bound plane? I thought It was the home country running that... anyway it used to be. When I flew home from Europe in '83 I didn't go through anything US based until I got back to MSP, and there was a full customs area at that terminal you had to go through... Is this something where we would have to share such info with the Dutch? How DOES INTERPOL figure into this, you'd think they would have a hand in it too, unless they are completely worthless. Plus they let him on the plane in Amsterdam without papers anyway. ASFAIK that ain't us.

And? It gives the lie that we can actually reason with these people when the most threatening ones are fully college educated elites who could have an entire life of ease. These aren't the disaffected street youth of Mosul or Kabul. It's almost like they are drugged or brainwashed.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

the airport in Amsterdam had, ironically, just passed its TSA test. but no, i don't think they have to go through a US-run checkpoint.

Prof Reynolds did post <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html>this</a> though. and i haven't seen it followed up anywhere else yet. deeply disturbing if true. <i>It gives the lie that we can actually reason with these people when the most threatening ones are fully college educated elites who could have an entire life of ease. These aren't the disaffected street youth of Mosul or Kabul. </i> yep. and it's insulting every time someone makes that argument. they aren't drugged, but they certainly are brainwashed.