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Old 05-30-2011, 11:04 AM
 
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That's right. People don't want to be blown up when they take that annual airplane trip to Disney World.
There seems to be no way to control a terrorist Government.

At least with dictators, they finally die, but a machine seems immune.
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Old 05-30-2011, 04:58 PM
 
Location: Midvale, UT
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Illegal immigration, for instance.

As a human being, I see why people come here illegally.

As an American citizen, I say "get them the hell out of here....illegal means illegal!".

Why doesn't our government follow the Constitution?
Because if they did they would instantly be labeled as a racist or insensitive to minorities and would lose out on all the votes to be had from such communities. In my mind they are only thinking about the next election and staying in office.
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Old 05-30-2011, 05:24 PM
 
Location: NW Las Vegas - Lone Mountain
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That's right. People don't want to be blown up when they take that annual airplane trip to Disney World.
If you really beieved that you would be out campaigning to remove all access within a 10 mile or so zone at the end of all major runways.

Or moving all airports out of urban areas.

If you are not advocating either....then you are not serious about getting the airplane to DisneyWorld.

Actually a whole lot more cost effective to simply get a few hundred people killed once in a while then actually to fix the problem.

Note that if we adopted that philosophy we could also get rid of most of TSA.
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Old 05-30-2011, 07:28 PM
 
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Old 05-30-2011, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Canada
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That's right. People don't want to be blown up when they take that annual airplane trip to Disney World.
Yes, because so many airplanes were blowing up even prior to 9/11.
I'd be more worried about taking a car, since the odds are much higher that you'll have a traffic fatality than one in the air.
When did Americans become so cowardly? I say this with a strong record of being pro-U.S., but it seems like more and more Americans are scared of their own shadows nowadays. The terrorist bogeyman is omnipresent!
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Old 05-30-2011, 10:07 PM
 
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Illegal immigration, for instance.

As a human being, I see why people come here illegally.

As an American citizen, I say "get them the hell out of here....illegal means illegal!".

Why doesn't our government follow the Constitution?
The answer to the thread header- no, and HELL NO.
The answer to illegal immigration- if it's illegal, why blame immigrants for the willful neglect of governance? Make no mistake about it- that neglect was willful & sustained for decades even post 9-11 when a blank check was on the table to mind our borders.

So there's only one legitimate question to ask. This arrangement is beneficial to whom? To those genuinely upholding the constitution/ laws of the nation or those undermining it by importing an underground economy?
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