Comments on: I smell a CAIR lawsuit coming on…

By: Bhishma

Bhishma — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:27:49 +0000

NY Times called for a free “two week trial” subscription. I replied that I do not read news papaers. Even if I read, there is no way I was going to subscribe to NY Times, but thanks for calling.
He quickly mumbled.. if you change your mind please call 1-800-whatever…

Was I rude? LOL…

By: Debra Burlingame on Diverted American Airlines Flight: “Flight Crews Are Looking Out For Us All” » The Aviation Nation

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:19:49 +0000

[...] — especially regarding incidents that come under public scrutiny? Or will they put the fear of a CAIR lawsuit before [...]

By: palladin

palladin — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:40:06 +0000

Looking at the news articles, some things:
* Now they are saying, he did not ride the employee bus. (He looked like someone who did).
* The employee bus does not get around security (It appears that it just gets employees from the employee parking lot to the airport).
* Employees who fly go through security. (IIRC, After a PSA crash caused by a disgruntled /fired employee, Federal law was changed to require this)
* None of the wire stories I’ve seen say he was middle eastern.

By: palladin

palladin — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:25:27 +0000

I doubt a lawsuit. Probably evaluation of security and employee training.

By: Entropy40

Entropy40 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:49:27 +0000

This is in reply to the Independent Conservative. It’s also my first comment here on Michelle’s site (Thank you! )

Unfortunately, you’re exactly correct. We in the US have become complacent, and too PC to defend ourselves. If things keep going the way they’ve been going, soon we’ll have Sharia Law foisted upon us.

There probably will be another CAIR lawsuit over this. Let’s not forget that one of CAIR’s founders stated “Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting, keeping Mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam. If you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam … Islam isn’t in America to
be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book
of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only
accepted religion on Earth.” That was stated by Omar Ahmed.

That should accurately sum up what CAIR really stands for.

By: Independent Conservative

Independent Conservative — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:14:03 +0000

Years ago, I wrote in details somewhere on the Internet what I, concisely, will tell you now:

The Islamic terrorists funded, are funding and will fund their attacks on the West with American, European, Canadian and Australian currency.

Islamic money and logistics are used when Western resources are hard to get or not available when an attack is urgent.

It seems that we, in the West, are still sleeping.

Sleeping? No, it’s not the realistic word.

In denial,
complacent,
politically correct,
sensitive,
accommodating,
understanding,
cowards,
sissies.

These are the exact words that describe the state of America and Europe in the 21st Century, in reply to Islam’s declaration of war on Western civilization.

By: jeffshultz

jeffshultz — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:13:30 +0000

Why do airline employees get to circumvent security anyway?

By: almeehan

almeehan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:10:40 +0000

At the very least the “employee” should be dismissed for a flagrant violation of security protocol. This obviously is a person that is so stupid and void of what’s going on in the world or a very crafty insider cell member who has been placed in a stratigic position. In either case he/she proved how totally inept our TSA bloated bureacracy demonstrates itself. Heaven help us when the next shoe drops.

By: Lump on a Blog » Blog Archive » It Depends On What the Definition Of “Is” Is, and Pursuing World Peace

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:07:53 +0000

[...] on what we are up against: Michelle Malkin smells a CAIR lawsuit coming on and exposes the hypocrisy of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. [...]

By: EdDantes

EdDantes — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:56:32 +0000

If there is a lawsuit filed in this case, somebody more important that me needs to seriously question the intentions of the organization who files it and supports it. (Probably CAIR and/or ACLU).

This is a classic case of someone actually doing the right thing and taking proper steps to avert a potential catastrophe. The airline employee who did the questioning on board the flight should be given a medal, or at the very least a membership to the jelly of the month club.

By: The Raging Republican

The Raging Republican — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:30:51 +0000

Did he get taken off the plane b/c they thought he was trying to smuggle lettuce?

By: sherlock

sherlock — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:18:35 +0000

Yes, uhangtight and others are right – he appears to have properly boarded the PLANE. But he apparently had used an employee-only BUS just prior to that. Probably took advantage of employee free parking for his vacation, then hopped the employee-only bus to the terminal.

Is it policy to require presenting a badge to access employee-only areas, or do they allow personal recognition? If the latter, it’s only a matter of time before a breach occurs: new guard, fast talker, etc.

Others have made the point – where I work, personal recognition is not sufficient. We use badge-readers and if you don’t have a badge, or it has expired, you don’t get in, as I recently found out to my embarassment and inconvenience! My badge said it expired June 30, and when I showed up on Monday morning July 2, it didn’t work! That’s how it should be be IMHO.

By the way, there was no guard to try to bullshit my way past – just a secure one-way personnel gateway. No valid badge, no getting in – period.

By: heroyalwhyness

heroyalwhyness — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:17:57 +0000

No ID . . .suffer the consequences. If CAIR is to be completely de-legitimized, it would be helpful to hyper-link this story identifying them as co-conspirators in the Hamas funding case. CAIR Use it effectively.

By: uhangtight

uhangtight — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:51:55 +0000

I can’t get into the parking lot where I work without my badge. I have to stop and identify myself with the guard before he will let me in and once I get into the building I am stopped by the same guard, who knows me by the way, and I must sign a form and provide my Drivers License to prove I am who I say I am.

And, this guy gets on an employee only bus? Did the bus driver know him? Did anyone on that bus know him? If the policy of the airline is to have your employee badge on at all times (when partaking of the privileges provided as being said employee) then he violated company policy. PERIOD. Where I work, that can get you fired.

I am sure CAIR will attempt an expensive lawsuit. Another waste of time and money. And, of course, just because this guy was an employee doesn’t mean that he isn’t a terrorist, either. Didn’t one of the guys planning the JFK work for the airport, too? Geesh.. we are in trouble folks..

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:50:45 +0000

Ah, airport security.

Two months after 9/11, my best friend (accidently) took six boxcutters on a plane.

Anyone who thinks the TSA is protecting us is sadly mistaken.