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Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List
sig writes "Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) was turned down for a flight from Washington, D. C. to Boston because his name turned up on the TSA No-Fly list. He eventually got on a flight, but was again denied on his way back to D.C. It took 3 weeks of calls to Tom Ridge and the Department of Homeland Security for the ordeal to get straightened out. But what are ordinary citizens supposed to do if the Secretary of Homeland Security won't take their calls?" There's also a New York Times story.
Maybe he is on the no-fly list because the plain can't fly with him on it
Let's not jump to conclusions here.
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Usually conservatives are quite humorless, but that is a very good practical joke.
When Tom DeLay wanted to find the Texas Dems he had the feds track down their plane, so I wouldn't be surprised if they put Kennedy on the Do Not Fly list to keep him from voting on a particular bill.
We've turned into your basic banana republic.
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Flamebait eh? More like AC bait. By his own version of events he is responsible for her death. Quoteth the Wiki:
After a party on Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy drove his 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger and aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. Kennedy did not report the incident for 10 hours. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence. This incident has haunted his reputation for the 35 years since its transpiring. Senator Kennedy's driver's license had expired on February 22, 1969 and had not been renewed. Although driving with an expired license was only a misdemeanor, it did provide the evidence of negligence needed to prove a manslaughter charge in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
It's not particularly shocking that someone would believe that manslaughter with a suspended sentence is too light of a punishment for someone driving drunk without a license who let's a friend drown while he sleeps it off to avoid being charged with a DUI.
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Fuck this country. Fuck the President. Fuck your mom. Fuck you.
Fuck your friends, fuck the Senate, fuck the House, fuck all goverment employees.
*WAITS*
Nope. Still here. Sorry.
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But given that he has killed more people in his car than I have with my gun; it is probably better for him to fly.
I guess it would be safe for him to drive as long as there isn't any water around, and you could keep him off the wagon for a few hours.
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Well, that, and the fact he's a fat, drunk, ultra-left wingnut shithead. To-may-to, to-mah-to.
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Bill Clinton was impeached BECAUSE HE LIED UNDER OATH.
It does not matter what he lied about, the key issue was that he LIED UNDER OATH.
Dismissing it because of the reason for his lie dilutes the respect for law. It is a dangerous path to follow.
Simply put, if we can excuse lieing under oath because on one reason who is to decide that the next reason used is any less valid?
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Let's get YOUR facts straight. Bill Clinton was on trial for a sexual harrassment charge. The charge was he gave good paying jobs to women who gave him sex and ignored the women who didn't. Monica Lewinski came up as a case in point. Clinton's lie about his relationship with Lewinski obstructed proving the key point - he was a typical jerk boss who promoted women he fucked and dissed women who rejected him.
Clinton then compounds his perjury by talking to his secretary about her upcoming Grand Jury testimony. He was specifically ordered not to speak to any of the witnesses who had yet to testify and yet he did. That's another obstruction of justice charge.
Bill Clinton deserved his impeachment and should have been removed from office. The fact that he wasn't removed left him in a position to sell pardons to people like Marc Rich and the Hasidic Jews knowing nobody would do anything about it. The Marc Rich pardon was true chutzpah - to wit:
The only difference between Nixon and Clinton was Clinton, being a Democrat, has the Washington Post and New York Times, on his side. Both were equally crooked presidents.I'm just sorry he missed the Boston to Washington flight that landed in Pennsylvania.
That won't work after the new 'Don't-Drive' rules take into effect on our nations hiways.
Mr. Kennedy (if that is really your name) please step away from the vehicle...
Too late. He already killed Kopechne.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
Journalist: Senator, did you learn anything from Chappaquiddick?
Kennedy: Yeah, don't drive over a bridge when you're pissed out of your fucking mind!
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Yup. They were obviously worried he'd get drunk and fly the plane into a river.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
What someone killed on September 11 might say if they could:
When they blew up the bus in Israel, I didn't say anything, because I wasn't Israeli. When they attacked the USS Cole, I didn't say anything, because I wasn't in the military.
Then they attacked the World Trade Center, and now I'm dead and can't say anything.
Speak out against terror, not those trying to protect us. Yeah, the Department of Homeland Security ain't perfect, are you? Didn't think so.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
With the help of the Bush Administration no less.
No, at this point in the history of the world, I do not think this was some king of bug or mistake. At some point they are going to start doing this to anybody they think is a Democrat or a liberal or just a non-creationist. Don't believe me? Just vote for the bastards again.
Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus.
but hey, it's all in the name of fighting terrorism, so it's okay, right?
Sounds about right to me.
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