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Alleged Ft. Hood gunman may have 9/11 mosque link

You're not fair at all, you're just blind. You haven't seen the libs around here trying to make this whole thing non-terrorist? :shock: :doh

Not just "the libs". I don't feel its a terrorist attack either.

I do think without question his extremist religious views were part of why this happened.

You do realize one can think religion played a factor in it and not think its a "terrorist" attack, right?
 
This article made some good points on why "PC Kills". and yes I know it's a conservative rag but there are a few good examples in there.

Read it.

Interpret it with an open mind.


Then I'm sure everyone can make an educated, well rounded rebuttal as to why I'm a moron for believing that some theory thought up by Marxists to help aid in uniting the proletarians is inadvertently causing mischief.


American Thinker: Political correctness kills

——— "A team of Indiana firefighters, volunteering to help rescue victims of Katrina, went to Atlanta, where Federal Emergency Management Agency staffers told them that their job was to hand out fliers and that their first task was to attend a multi—hour course on sexual harassment and equal employment opportunity."

——— " This is, astoundingly, standard operating procedure at FEMA. And in other parts of the federal government."
This isn't necessarily due to PC, so much as a president appointing a FEMA director with no background in the field. While sexual harassment training has its place, any competent management would have put in a caveat to waive it when needed.

——— "Former CIA agent Robert Baer writes in his recent book how in Central Asia he asked headquarters to send someone who spoke Afghan languages, and Langley offered to send a four—member sexual harassment team instead."
I suspect there was more going on... this seems kinda fishy.

Sexual harassment has now turned into a ball and chain for our military, our police, and even for the rescuers in New Orleans. Looney—tunes Political Correctness is not the only culprit in the Hurricane Katrina response, but it looks like one of the biggest.
Wait. It was bigger than there not being a good evacuation plan, or supplies being stockpiled, or funding to levies being cut? I suspect not.

PC made 9/11 possible. I'm sorry, but it's true. Political Correctness made it a venal sin to raise the alarm when Mohammed Atta was identified as the likely leader of a murderous Al Qaeda cell in 1999, two years before 9/11. This was six years after the 1993 attempt to blow up the Twin Towers the first time around.
What facet of PCness was this?

PC erected Jamie Gorelick's infamous legal Wall between the FBI, CIA and DOD, so that Mohammed Atta, identified by the Able Danger group, had to be erased from the record. You see, he was in the country legally, and the Department of Defense is not supposed to engage in domestic law enforcement. It was PC that blinded us to the hijackers who killed 3,000 innocent people four years ago.
How was that political correctness?

PC kept CNN from showing the death jumpers from the burning Twin Towers, for fear of enraging the American people and making them feel angry at Muslims. But just a few days ago, Political Correctness made in necessary for CNN to get a court order allowing it to televise the bloated bodies of the children and elderly African Americans who drowned in New Orleans. To teach the American people a lesson, in living color.
I think the author's making some pretty big leaps here. I'd like to see his proof on any of this. I mean, when the twin towers fell, we didn't even know the Muslims did it. I call BS or mind-reading-time-travel

PC made Hazel O'Leary prohibit color—coded security badges at the Energy Department during the Clinton years, because NOBODY should ever have a better color badge than anybody else. The Energy Department is in charge of our nuclear weapons labs, like Los Alamos, where security became a bad joke when PC took over. Hazel O'Leary should have become a laughing stock, but she is probably thriving somewhere, spreading the virus.

Uhh... wha? This doesn't even make sense. Another question, and very important, how do you define political correctness?

While the Energy Department couldn't protect our nuclear secrets because of PC, Political Correctness made it just fine to sell national security secrets to China. After all, it would be racist to discriminate against China, and they deserve missiles that work just as well as American missiles.
Is this a line of reasoning Clinton ever used, or is the author making **** up?

The problem is that lies kill, and Politically Correct lies are practically tailor—made to kill. If the voters of New Orleans had not been lied to year after year, they would have demanded that money be spent on levees. It's not that they lacked the will to live. They were just the latest victims of Politically Correct lies ——— by the media, by the educrats of a disastrous school system, and yes, by all the Mayor Nagins and all the Governor Blancos, all the Clintons and the Carters. All the folks who don't think that telling the truth matters a lot.
Please explain to me directly how PC led to weak levies? I'm lost here.

Yeah... the entire thing is non sequiters, distortions, and ranting.
 
You posted it, not me. I didn't get a lot of those connections.

I'm just saying, I get what the writer was saying, and I looked at a story about the incident in the paper, but I don't understand how someone could think that there is any hierarchy on the color wheel
 
I'm just saying, I get what the writer was saying, and I looked at a story about the incident in the paper, but I don't understand how someone could think that there is any hierarchy on the color wheel

You don't know that someone thought that. You know that someone claimed someone thought that. Don't post articles you can't back up.
 
You don't know that someone thought that. You know that someone claimed someone thought that. Don't post articles you can't back up.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SECURITY ISSUES

If you've got the time, skim through it. It's kind of intense and full of bureaucrap...I could have just read it wrong. It deals with an overturn of a revoking of clearance for someone who had breached security and leaked information...or that's how I read it. It's kind of confusing because it's..well...the HoR.
 
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This is the transcript of the House hearing regarding the incident with the badges.

Yeah... I have no desire to read through a ream of congresstalk. If there's something you want to point out, post it. What about everything else I mentioned?
 
Yeah... I have no desire to read through a ream of congresstalk. If there's something you want to point out, post it. What about everything else I mentioned?

Egh, I'll go back through and pick out parts of the testimony and such...it's dreadfully boring...have you ever though of reading C-span??? this is it...

What about the rest of them? I was merely posting an article for people to tear apart or debate. It's late and i"m tired and I don't really agree with most of the article anyway.
 
Egh, I'll go back through and pick out parts of the testimony and such...it's dreadfully boring...have you ever though of reading C-span??? this is it...

What about the rest of them? I was merely posting an article for people to tear apart or debate. It's late and i"m tired and I don't really agree with most of the article anyway.

What parts of it do you agree with?
 
Re: Fort Hood Army Massacre Shooter Has Possible 9/11 Link

Yes, it looks perfectly clear. A mentally disturbed individual that subscribed to an extreme ideology segment of islam was set to be shipped out to the actual front lines and rather than do that, or flee, decided dto essentially martyr himself.

There's still no evidence of him actually having direct links

He has direct links to the AQ recruiter Iman Anwar al-Awlaki.
 
Re: Fort Hood Army Massacre Shooter Has Possible 9/11 Link

Well then the next question is, How did he get into a position of power with these links? And how the hell did he get past the FBI and authorities?

He was actually under investigation by the FBI at the time of the attack.
 
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