MPs warn over air security checks
by BBC Reports–
Heightened security checks at airports could create a potential new target for terrorists, MPs have warned.
A report by the Commons transport select committee said queues of hundreds of passengers in cramped spaces could become a security hazard.

The committee recommended that reducing queues at security and speeding up check-in times should be a priority.

The Department for Transport (DfT) said baggage security rules introduced last August met “a very real threat”.

The reasons why we are losing the war on terror are clear to all but the most menial of minds… The administration has lost popular support on all fronts because of ham fisted half measures and a policy enforced upon the flying public by an army of minions.

One would not venture to say how airport security has affected the flying public in the UK… (I dare say that, at least in the UK, only the cream of the crop is selected for security services). But here in the US flying has become a nightmare to the public. We find that an army of the mentally challenged have taken station over our most important municipal centers (our airports) in addition the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is compiling secret databases on the flying public despite repeated warnings by the United States Congress to stop in this illegal action. The ones who are in charge of operations have little more than a high school diploma and some even have criminal records. They make a mockery to all who are associated with security services and become a hazard to the flying public more than any terrorist possibly could, and are loath and despised by any who must endure fools…

Those who’s duty its is to secure areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan must know that the incompetent actions of those few left in charge of our most important urban security assets are a direct reflection upon public sentiment on our war effort abroad. The TSA has been a catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina proportions and should be disbanded immediately if our foreign policy efforts are to enjoy any measure of success. It is obvious to any who understands the workings of a modern democracy that a war effort will NEVER succeed unless it maintains the popular support of the people (at least in the government houses). As to the war on terror, the TSA remains the terrorist greatest ally more than even Osama Bin Laden. The only prudent move is to abolish the TSA as soon as funding expires.

After reading some of the recent columns by Cal Thomas (Graham’s Treason) , Rich Lowery (McCain’s hypocritical) or even Maureen Dowd (Dubya (or W.), wake up and get your head out of your assets) so to speak… Is showing utter contempt for the office.  I think “Mr.President” is just as effective without sounding like we’re at war with each other.  With all this nonsense and name calling its a wonder how this country has lasted as long as it has.  First of all, we should drop to our knees and give thanks that NONE of these guys (and gals) are actually running the country… Thank God!  I think maybe Mr. Thomas is perhaps the finest soldier in the jihadist army except for maybe Richard Lowery… They still don’t get it.
 
Look today is this 22^nd of September the first day of fall, we retired the F-14 TomCat after 34 years of service, our first line pure fighter, still even now, few aircraft on the planet rival its avionics engaged in air to air combat… but the secret weapon remains the “TopGun” pilot in the cockpit.  Just about every General, special ops soldier, and fighting man worth his salt knows that its not the helmet upon the head, the tank or aircraft in which he fights or the boots upon his feet that matter… But rather that which is placed inside the American soldier’s heart that has created the world’s most feared warrior. 

Part and parcel Of this arsenal of freedom is the Constitution of the United States of America, its armor truth, justice, and the absolute and certain knowledge our fight is in the just and righteous cause of freedom. That is, if we’re going to win this war, this is how it will be done, as we have always done, and that’s by being more American, not less…  By drawing a clear and distinct line of demarcation between what and who we are… I think maybe I was in love once with a beautiful creature in which we had little, if anything in common… except for maybe a passion for life and ideas.  I mean you can tell the difference in a kiss when its just planted on the lips… Or the rapture in such a way you feel it to your toes so as to cause everything else in the world to just fade into obilvion.  It’s the sincerity that once it touches never leaves the heart of its victim. It convicts to the tears to ones eyes and renders courage to the etenal heart… It makes for a fearless soul.  Awesome is the soldier that fights with love…  In the eyes of God, truth and courage always win, one gives rise to the other and together become the most powerful force in the universe.   Thank God we still have such honorable men (Senators Lindsey Graham, John McCain , and John W. Warner) of sincere conviction and steadfast constitution. God bless America.

Lindsey Graham (Senator Republican South Carolina) said this will determine how America is perceived around the world in 2006… Indeed  how we define these issues of the Geneva Conventions (and associate constitutional concerns) is even more important then how we are perceived just not by friend and foe alike but, from the historical perspective in 3006, how we perceived and defined our national character as the leader of the free world.  Generations may look upon the events taking form upon the Senate floor as the pivotal moment for shaping the future of what this country, indeed in large part what the free world will become in the next thousand years. 

The line has been drawn, not in the sands of some god forsaken desert,  but  upon the floor of the United States Senate and across the desk of Executive office desk of President George Walker Bush. In the Senate you have Senators John McCain of Arizona, John W. Warner of Virginia and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The three were joined on Thursday by Colin L. Powell, formerly the secretary of state and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in challenging the administration’s approach.  At stake are the core principals of this nation in its battle over terrorism… but even deeper and more important are our Constitution and its cherished moral principals as they stand not just for Americans but for the world… Who we are, and what we stand for.  How we are different from the would be tyrants that oppose and loath freedom and will ultimately determine if Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall survive or perish from the face of the earth.  

Almost two years have passed since The Nation published The Moral Case Against the Iraq War  Indeed this has become more than just a war for democracy in Iraq but a test for the core and soul of this nation’s Constitution.  I wrote a piece that did not get much copy on an important discussion of the Supreme Courts decision as to the legal question branding the NSA wiretapping as unconstitutional. In the discussion I just called it as I plainly see it Spaghetti Cowboy logic because the reasoning behind the wire taps seems all nice and sound on the surface but contains the seeds of destruction to be twisted in such as fashion so as to destroy not only the Constitution but indeed peril the very future of freedom and basic human rights as to make them nonexistence.   This Sunday churches across America are encouraged to ring their bells on September 17th at 4:00 pm, the date and time of the original signing of the Constitution of the United State of American… To which I can only add, for those who believe in God and the power of prayer…  Now maybe a good time to pray for America and thank God for the freedoms for which she stands.