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2007-04-10 Fifth Column

Moonbat Fantasy: Antiwar Prof Claims to be on No-Fly List

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Posted by Mike 2007-04-10 15:26|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 GAWD! I got singled out last week...BFD. I wonder if he had mints on his pillow when he checked in? If not did Karl rvoe steal them?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-04-10 16:16|| 2007-04-10 16:16|| Front Page Top

#2 its also been pointed out that the prof was not stopped on his return flight, so he HAD to be a random selectee.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-04-10 16:20|| 2007-04-10 16:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Message to Professor Murphy: Get real - you're not worth the powder.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-04-10 16:20|| 2007-04-10 16:20|| Front Page Top

#4 The whole bit about the peace march just doesn't jive with me. I think that's the tip off that this story is mostly BS.

Posted by RJB in JC MO 2007-04-10 16:40|| 2007-04-10 16:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep, Snopes material RJB.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-10 17:02|| 2007-04-10 17:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Used to work for the TSA ( please don't hold that against me) We had no discretion about who was selected by the airlines; their ticket printing system added the 'special codes';we could randomly select others, but the airlines had no input on that, either.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-04-10 17:29|| 2007-04-10 17:29|| Front Page Top

#7 If being an "enemy" was a criterion for being selected for extra special attention, then Cindy Sheehan, Jane Fonda, and any number of other anti-war stars would constantly be hassled at airports. Every single time. Not that I am opposed to such a policy, of course.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-04-10 17:43|| 2007-04-10 17:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm sure the TSA was the better for having you there, USN, Ret. Actually, it's a pity more there don't have your understanding of the situation.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-10 19:23|| 2007-04-10 19:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I was part of church group coming back from Asia that got stranded overnight in Minneapolis. We wound up flying the next day on different airline.
So we were 1) a large group, 2) travelling from Asia, 3) using one way tickets. Just about 1/3rd of us got flagged for security checks.

I don't remember us kicking up some anti-religious nuttery. Missed opportunity.

Posted by Slinesing Angomolet1065 2007-04-10 19:35|| 2007-04-10 19:35|| Front Page Top

#10 I just popped over to Princeton U's webpage on the honoured professor. It sure sounds like he's done some things. But I do find it a bit incredible that a Marine colonel, who fought in the Korean War and then served almost two decades as a Marine Reservist, is unable to accept that sometimes everyone is subject to stupid rules. this is the kind of "Do you know who I am?!?" behaviour more common to aging starlets and retired local politicians. He more than most should know that security requires sacrifice.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-10 20:37|| 2007-04-10 20:37|| Front Page Top

#11 If this jerk is such a scholar, he should know it is The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-04-10 20:40|| 2007-04-10 20:40|| Front Page Top

#12 the Homeland Security Department's Traveler Redress Inquiry Program.

TRIP. Some one has a sense of humor. Like the guy who developed the General Electric System Tape Actuated Processing Observer back in the days when GE built computers.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-04-10 20:45|| 2007-04-10 20:45|| Front Page Top

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