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Gingrich: Imams should have been arrested

2006-12-17

Heh. W00t N00t!

MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told an audience in New Hampshire Muslim clerics pulled off a plane for praying should have been charged criminally.

Gingrich made the remark Friday night, as he delivered the keynote speech at the Manchester Republican City Committee Christmas dinner, the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader reported.

"Those six people should have been arrested and prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists," Gingrich said.

"Those six people should have been arrested and prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists," Gingrich said. "And the crew of the U.S. airplane should have been invited to the White House and congratulated for being correct in the protection of citizens."

The imams, who had been attending a conference in Minneapolis, were pulled off a US Air flight to Phoenix after other passengers said they had been acting suspicious. They were questioned by the FBI for several hours and then released.

Their suspicious behavior apparently consisted of reports that they had prayed in Arabic and that they were not sitting together but had walked around to talk to each other.

Gingrich said last month the United States might have to accept new curbs of First Amendment rights to fight terrorism.

Posted by:.com

#17 We seem to be headed for the situation where the citizenry begins to take direct action to protect themselves because they recognize that the government is no longer protecting them. That is called anarchy in some places.

Posted by: SR-71 2006-12-17 21:24

#16 Yeah, many things need to be done, and many people are 'coming over' Newt's not the first, neither is Brigitte Gabriel, but this jihad crap has been burning for decades, and we are finally starting to call a spade. Leaders lead, so go Newt.

Posted by: wxjames 2006-12-17 20:41

#15 I don't think one could make the charge of 'pretending to be terrorists' stick.

Try attempting to open a cockpit door and see what charges you are brought up on.

These imams interfered with a flight in progress. Didn't some of them occupy seats they were not assigned to? At least one did in the first class section and I recall reading that some of them tried to sit together even though their seats were not adjacent. So many of their actions were specifically designed to trigger security thresholds that at least a few of them could be justifiably charged with intentionally interfering with a flight in progress.

The airline needs to countersue in order to recover any delay costs, extra crew pay and all attorney's fees.

Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-17 15:49

#14 I read the arrest report (Minnesota 6004536) and probable cause was present.

Does Gingrich have future career plans? I can think of one good choice.

Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-17 14:54

#13 How about you call your local FBI office and make a bomb threat at the local sporting event. See how long it takes them to trace your call, arrest your ass, and throw you in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison for 5-10.

What these unholy men did was the exact same kind of thing. Somehow I don't think you will get far with a claim of racism with your bomb threat.

Acting like a group of terrorists and calling in a bomb threat are the same sort of thing and should be treated the same.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-12-17 13:03

#12 That's right Dr. Steve. This is clearly disorderly conduct. Same with the bleating in an airport terminal. How about tripping over one of these jackasses who's down on the floor, then suing for physical damages. We need to go after these fools now. I can see that a citizen might perform a citizen arrest on the moonbats, encounter physical and verbal abuse from the vermin, and therefore approximately 100 -200 bystanders would have every right to join in in the defense of the original citizen. Cluster f**k results. When enough cops arrive to untangle things, you'd find severely damaged moonbats on the bottom of the pile. And, strangely, no one would be able to recall how any of it began.

Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-12-17 12:07

#11 If you can get a trip to the slammer for telling a joke about a bomb, you should get one for pretending to be a terrorist. I'd add incitement to riot. Get a real cop, a jury of my peers, and I'll bet you could send them up for a long time.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-12-17 11:33

#10 I don't think one could make the charge of 'pretending to be terrorists' stick.

But a charge of disorderly conduct? Now that one would work ...

Posted by: Steve White 2006-12-17 11:30

#9 Never been high on the Newt even if he is a fellow Georgian. But following what we've seen out of Washington the past few years, what the heck.

Posted by: Besoeker 2006-12-17 10:43

#8 "Their suspicious behavior apparently consisted of reports that they had prayed in Arabic and that they were not sitting together but had walked around to talk to each other."

Err...the suspicious behavior consisted of a lot more than gets reported in the article above.

RB folk following the story would know this. Someone in Manchester, NH reading this story might not.

If someone didn't know all the facts underlying the flying imam story, then one could come away with a view that Newt is out of his gord for calling for the arrest of the imams based upon only what gets reported in the article above. It's a travesty of reporting and perhaps...just perhaps... calculated to make Newt look like a srewball.

Redneck Jim: Posturing? If so I'll take it. By Newt speaking out it keeps the story alive for another day. I'm hopeful CAIR will make another tactical mistake and will soon respond to Newt and the story will be kept alive for even another day. Keeping the facts of this case alive works to the advantaage of the good guys.

Prediction: If the dhimmicrats (Conyers, Mullah Ellison, Pelosi et al) make good on the threat to pass legislation outlawing racial and religious profiling (End Racial Profiling Act) watch for Newt to lead a tough vocal charge against it outside the halls of congress.

Newt gets it in my opinion.

Posted by: Mark Z 2006-12-17 10:38

#7 Is anyone perfect, RJ? Just saying this is so fucking far beyond what any other politician has said it's a fucking marvel.

No one has a problem dishing out blame, how about some credit where due...

Posted by: .com 2006-12-17 10:11

#6 If these Imams had been traveling alone and tried this shinola, the other passengers might have beaten them up and tied them up with duct tape. Airline passengers have become testy about these things.

I hope this is a subtle undercurrent in our society. For too long we have avoided confronting Moonbats, aggressive panhandlers and outright insane people. A return to the good old days when if somebody acted freakishly and hostile in an aggressive manner, the typical response was to punch them on the nose.

I long for the day when some uniformed soldier is confronted by such a kook, screaming things like "Nazi!" and "Baby-killer!", and an ordinary citizen takes it upon himself to give said kook a glorious shiner, before apologizing on behalf of the clobbered kook to the soldier.

A relatively few such incidents and many nut cases would soon intuitively learn to keep a sock in it.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-12-17 10:07

#5 He's late,
I'm trying to figure out if he's simply posturing, or if he really gets it?

Currently my thoughts are running 80/20 in favor of posturing (For the delay)

If he was serious, just have them arrested now.

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-12-17 10:01

#4 Bastards should not be in this counry to begin with. There, I said it!

So how did they get in?
Find the answer to that and a lot of problems can be eliminated.

Posted by: tipper 2006-12-17 08:31

#3 easy enough, bar criminal and civil prosecutions for assaults by passengers who feel threatened, and give everyone seat belt extenders

Posted by: Frank G 2006-12-17 08:16

#2 And it was well said, indeed, heh.

Posted by: .com 2006-12-17 04:21

#1 Bastards should not be in this counry to begin with. There, I said it!

Posted by: Besoeker 2006-12-17 04:19

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