Comments on: NORM MINETA: THE WRONG MAN AT THE WRONG TIME IN THE WRONG PLACE

By: The Key Monk

The Key Monk — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:15:16 +0000

Homeland Security Problem

Of all Cabinet secretaries who cannot be asleep at the switch, Mineta is near the top of the list, thanks to having the TSA and FAA under his rule.

By: Ed Driscoll.com

Ed Driscoll.com — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:56:05 +0000

“The Wrong Man At The Wrong Time In The Wrong Place”

Michelle Malkin runs roughshod over “underperformin’” Norman Mineta. And boy, does he deserve it….

By: elvez

elvez — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:58:56 +0000

Erik – Aren’t all people who purchase one-way tickets with cash subject to the scrutiny already?

By: elvez

elvez — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:54:01 +0000

Mr. Kotthoff – I am sorry for your loss. But with all due respect sir, you speak out of turn. You make the assumption that because my opinion is unpleasant to you I must not have had any personal loss on 9/11 or in the war in Iraq.

More importantly, you can’t really expect that you can exclude people from their conversation based on their proximity to the 9/11 tragedy. Now if you just don’t like what I (or others) have to say, I can’t and won’t apologize for my right to do so.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:50:31 +0000

Sorry for the double post.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:44:06 +0000

Mynci—
I understand you don�t like profiling because it is simply wrong. However, the technique has been a part of criminal justice for one hundred years. It is perhaps the most longstanding and widely taught methodology in the world. Simply stated, the technique helps to reduce the suspect pool. Is it �paranoia� to exercise proven techniques to secure the Nation against aggression? Isn�t it smarter to let this be part of an evolving terrorist methodology unique to the universal threat of Islamo-fascism? Or do we just grab at straws citing a sensational grievance to slam on the door on the subject. You say profiling won�t curb all terrorist capability. So what? Is the alternative to open the floodgates and let it rip? You can do better than that. If the Border patrol knows 75% of all illegals caught at the Arizona border are ME Arab males from X country with Y characteristics in common, doesn�t this give law enforcement a better chance at discovery and interdiction perhaps closer to a point of origin? And who knows what else they may find? The common argument against profiling is that it denies equal protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Often, the people espousing this belief are the same ones pushing for open borders and giving non-citizens voting rights. They are the Transnationalists in full support of global legal administration.I’m not saying this is your belief, but it does open a line of thought you may want to consider fully. You may want to detach yourself emotionally from the subject, read Michelle�s book, do some research, and reconsider your position. Your life may depend on it.

By: James Kotthoff

James Kotthoff — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:31:21 +0000

Elvez
You have nerve to speak on what another gives up in this war on terrorism. What have you ever sacrificed for anything. I lost family and friends as a result of 9/11 and a career I enjoyed.
Surge
I see you as witty and informed as ever…enough said.
Capt America (Dumb name by the way) You think you make valid points and to a degree you do but racial profiling is an intellegent chose to protect people. If I agree with your logic then in the case of a murder where the witnesses report a black male did the crime we should not look at black males because it would be unfair..Bull you base you security and investigative forces on the most likely subjects first…this is call logic.
Mynci. No disrespect but you are a MORON! You don’t try to understand why someone wants to kill you until after you insure your safety first and have you ever considered that terrorist want to kill because they are twisted

By: bdfaith

bdfaith — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:33:40 +0000

A personal note to Walter E. Wallis: I just want you to know that at least one Vietnam vet appreciates the vets of �The Forgotten War.�

�For those who have fought for it, freedom has a taste the protected will never know.�

By: bdfaith

bdfaith — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:23:58 +0000

�There is none so blind as he who will not see.�

Mynci,

�What profiling does do – and I will admit it has one use – is help feed the very paranoia that informs attempts to justify it, creating a vicious circle wherein we tolerate ever greater erosion of our civil liberties and freedoms. Ironically enough, these are the very things we seek to protect from terrorism.�

Civil liberties and freedoms became totally irrelevant to about 3,000 people on 9/11/2001. First let�s worry about keeping 3,000, or 30,000, or 3,000,000 more people from being killed for being American, then we can worry about civil liberties a little more later.

�[T]he only real way to end terrorism is to try and understand why people support it and make it possible in the first place.�

Appropriately enough, you saved your real bottom line for last. It�s all our fault to begin with, so how could we dare inconvenience those poor misunderstood men with the guns and bombs and box cutters by trying to protect ourselves?

By: PRESTOPUNDIT -- "must readings" says Nick Schutz

PRESTOPUNDIT -- "must readings" says Nick Schutz — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:19:51 +0000

NORM MINETA.

THE WRONG MAN AT THE WRONG TIME IN THE WRONG PLACE. My thoughts exactly….

By: Walter E. Wallis

Walter E. Wallis — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:18:47 +0000

Surge – I looked at the site you recommended.
There is a consonance between the mobilization for the Korean War and the mobilization for the War on Terror. In both cases, the military had been downsized [by democrats] to make funds available for vote buying social schemes. I went into battle 54 years ago today with worn out WWII weapons and vehicles and 1943 C-rations.

By: MartiniPundit

MartiniPundit — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:11:20 +0000

Norman Minetta, the Wrong Man

I have long thought that Norman Minetta was the wrong man for Secretary of Transportation. A holdover from the Clinton Administration, he was supposed to be the bipartisan member of the Bus Cabinet - after all, the Transportation Dept. isn't t…

By: dano

dano — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:03:49 +0000

Right on Bob! Some of us here in Cali know that side of the story. Capitano America & Elvez are strangely silent.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:37:13 +0000

There is a germane FrontPageMagazine article today

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14557,

Connecting The South American Terror Dots

It states that 5510 non-Mexican, non-Central or South American aliens have been apprehended by Arizona Border Patrol agents since 1 October 2003. Rules do not allow the ethnic identity or nationality of origin to be identified. Obviously, this doesn�t account for those who made it in and can�t be tracked at all. A very sobering article
Strike-one against the good guys!

By: Captain America

Captain America — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:56:03 +0000

Sorry, I mistakenly called Ms. Malkin’s book “The Case for Internment” when it is in fact “In Defense of Internment.” But that doesn’t alter my argument one iota.