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Dec. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
Mark Stein, honored to be behind the eggnog colored EIB microphone for the next three hours.
I'm from the foreign exchange wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a terrific program.
Penniless foreign students like me get to come and study here.
And in return, every American gets subjected to a full cavity search, even if they're not flying anywhere.
It's a it's a just a ter terrific program.
I'm here uh like every undocumented American, I've uh got my underwear loaded with explosives, and we're gonna release them over the course of the next three hours.
Uh happy Christmas bank holiday Monday.
Uh today is a public holiday.
If you're in uh Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, but it's a regular working day for you, schmucks in the United States, because under President Obama, you're only entering the intermediate stage of utopia, where you get European levels of taxation, but not European levels of days off.
Uh I don't know whether we're ever going to get to to that divine stage.
But uh if you uh if you're if you're di if you're in one of the many countries enjoying a day off today, uh particularly if you're standing in line at uh at the airport in Amsterdam and you got four, five, six, seven hours to kill while they subject you to the uh secondary cavern cavity search.
Do get do uh do give us a call, let us know what things uh uh like that.
The whole Mr. Snardley is so naive.
He wants to know what the holiday is there.
Uh December the twenty-sixth, the day after Christmas, that is Boxing Day in uh in the British Commonwealth and other places, Boxing Day.
But if Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, uh then you take the following Monday off in compensation for not having Saturday off because you'd already you've already taken it off anyway.
That's the way it works.
January the fourth, this is how great it is.
In basically Christmas, you can't get anybody uh on the phone in a in a British office from about December the 17th to the third week of January, because they're just uh they say they're just they're off for Christmas.
Monday, January the fourth is a holiday in uh in uh the United Kingdom, and I believe Tuesday, January the fifth is a holiday after uh in Scotland, because Hogmanay falls, I think Hogmanay falls on a weekend this year, and they always get January the second off anyway, which is the because that's the day after Hogmone.
Uh so Tuesday, January the fifth is still part of the Christmas break in Scotland, because it's the first hog Tuesday after Hog Monday or whatever.
Anyway, they've got holiday poor old Poor old Mr. Snardley, he's looking there so naive.
This well, you what you're not s you're not still doing this sucker five-day work week thing, are you?
Boy, no advanced society does that any longer.
Ha!
Get out of here.
There's one board every minute.
Uh so it's uh we're we're just entering the sta I to me it always feels like seasonal Stockholm syndrome.
If you've ever had the misfortune to spend Christmas, because you know, basically here it's a day.
Boom, Christmas.
Christmas is a day called December 25th, December 26th, everything's back for normal.
You can uh say goodbye to your Auntie Mabel, don't have to see her again, don't have to pretend to be nice to your family, boom, you're out of there, you're gone.
Uh in if you go and have Christmas in a European country, you're you're we you're with them for three weeks, there's nowhere to go, there's nothing to do, everything's closed.
You just hold up in there with them.
It's the nearest I've spending a ho spending Christmas in uh the United Kingdom.
Last time I did it was the closest I hope I ever come to experiencing my own personal hostage crisis.
It's like seasonal Stockholm syndrome.
You're there after, you know, by by midway through the second week, the figgy pudding starts, it's rock solid, but it's starting to look pretty good.
And and it's a better conversationalist than your Auntie Mabel, too.
Anyway, that's uh that's Christmas.
That's Christmas uh overseas.
We haven't reached that advanced stage of civilizational development yet.
Uh we're gonna talk about the Christmas Day panty bomber.
Uh Umar Farouk Abdul Mutalab, uh the guy on the Northwest flight to uh Detroit.
Well uh while visions of sugar plums danced in his pants, having a great Christmas day.
Uh love this head-where's this.
Headline from the Washington Post.
Washington Post had is so different from the Bush presidency.
Imagine a headline like this in the Bush days.
Obama addresses airline security in low-key fashion.
I'll I'll say.
I'll say the uh the Secretary of Homeland Security, uh Janet Incompeterna went on TV and says uh she goes on TV and says the system worked.
The system worked.
That's great news, isn't it?
Who knew the system depended on randomly selected flying Dutchman scattered among the passengers?
If you've uh if you've uh if you've wondered where the fifty billion dollars in Homeland Security that we're paying for, where it goes to, uh w we're spending it on deputizing random Dutch men and installing them on selected incoming flights to the United States.
So you've got nothing to worry about.
That's where it's going, the fifty billion, the fifty billion dollars.
The system worked.
So uh oh uh uh Obama uh what they mean though by Obama address that's actually is pretty low-key.
It doesn't get much more low-key than Janet in Competano going on TV and saying the system worked.
If that's not a low-key approach uh to a near-terrorist disaster, I don't know what is.
Uh but um but it's maybe low-key for him and for Janet uh in Competerno, but it's not uh for you.
Uh it is amazing to me the the way every time we have one of these incidents, we introduce a whole new bunch of uh so-called security procedures.
Uh the I think the very first time Mr. Snadley and I were in a studio together, I'd just flown in from Auckland, New Zealand, and Mr. Snerdley was very annoyed because he was getting people on the phone saying, Why have we got a New Zealander uh bit here?
They didn't like it.
The New Zealand oh the New Zealandophobes were besieging it, besieging Mr. Snerdley and demanding to know why I was behind the microphone.
I just happened to be in and I was passing through Auckland.
But I mentioned that I bought a snow globe, a little snow globe for my little girl just at the airport there.
And uh the lady had rung it up uh and swiped my credit card and done everything, and then said, Oh, wait a minute, uh you're not flying to America, are you?
And um, of course, uh I said, yes, I was flying to America, and she looked down her list of newly prohibited uh items because we'd had the big London failed bomb plot exposed a couple of days earlier.
Uh and the list of newly prohibited items included Snow Globe, because that little sort of liquid that all the little snow is floating around in, we give it the shake.
I could have taken that into the men's room, cracked it open, weaponized the little the little gel-like liquid within the snow globe, uh, got a crack team of New Zealand jihadist glaziers who are lurking in the greater Auckland area to come into the airport men's room and re-glaze my snow globe uh and then boarded the plane to explosive effects.
And so instead I had to stand there while she did the usual thing about reversing the credit card transaction, uh and I I bought a stuffed sheep for my little girl or whatever.
So that was the no snow globe thing.
And the that was just after the London thing.
Uh and that was ever since then we've had to declare how much shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwell you know that thing where they ask you how many liquids, gels, and you have to you can only have an insy teency winsy little percentage of a fluid ounce and you have to put it in the little sealed baggie, and the guy uh hand it to the guy and he puts it through separate.
That was after the last failed bomb plot.
We took the shoes off for the shoe bomber after the first failed bomb plot.
He he didn't succeed either.
Uh he didn't succeed either, but now we all take our shoes off and do the little shoeless shuffle through the line.
The London guys didn't succeed, but now we uh we restricted in the shampoo and restricted in the gels and restricted in the liquids and we have to put them in the little bag and they go through separately.
And uh the snow globes got banned.
And uh for a while, I think this was at European airports, they were saying you couldn't have gel-filled bras.
I don't know what uh I didn't even I'm not really fam I don't I've led a sheltered life.
I don't really know what a gel-filled bra is.
But um but gel-filled bras were prohibited.
Uh that is serious profiling.
People say, oh, we're not doing profiling, but they were profiling chicks with great profiles uh and then making them take off the gel-filled bras.
Uh that was uh so that and I don't even believe there was any security threat with the gel-filled bras.
I think that's just Homeland Security sensing an opportunity here and uh and ha and having some fun.
But so now we're gonna have now this guy succeed, despite all this, despite banning the snow globes, despite the snow globe the the snow globe security ban, a guy manages to get on the plane uh with a bomb.
Uh he's got the material sewn into his underwear, and uh midway through the flight, he gl he goes to the bathroom and he wires himself up and uh he comes out and he actually detonates the bomb.
Uh he he he uh and it's only because uh the trigger he's got so uh excited at the thought of meeting his 72 virgins that all the uh all the all the bits in his underwear have become detached from each other, so the bomb doesn't actually go off.
But he gets he gets the stuff on the plane, he constructs the bomb in the men's room, and he goes there and he uh and he uh lights the fuse or whatever he did, and there's a big loud bang.
And it's only because his his uh various private parts uh are so excited at the thought of meeting Allah that uh that they uh that the that the material comes detached that the bomb doesn't go off.
Uh and this is what Janet uh Incompatano says when she says the system worked.
The system worked.
So the system has worked so well, you know what they're gonna do now?
You will not be able to have anything on your lap for the final hour of the flight.
We now have federal regulation of laps.
We have you can't have a laptop on your lap, you can't have a blanket on your lap, you can't have a paperback book on your lap for the last hour of the flight.
You know what else they've done?
This is how serious they take this incident.
They've banned the pilots from doing that thing they do when you're flying across the country and they say, if you look out the left side of your window, you'll get a marvelous view of the Grand Canyon.
If you look out the right side of the cabin, you'll get a wonderful view of Niagara Falls.
If you look through the rear view mirror, you can see Catalina Island.
They're not allowed to do that anymore.
They've banned that uh because the terrorist will say, oh, uh the pilot has just announced we're over the Grand Canyon.
I must get into the men's room and light up my trousers and destroy the Great Satan's Grand Canyon.
Uh so we now have why don't they just cut to the chase and board up the windows?
Why don't they black out why don't they why don't actually why don't they just really cut to the chase, put us in a box and ship us freight?
And and and as I said, the important thing to remember is these are all failed plots.
The shoe bomber failed.
Uh the London plot failed.
Uh now Mr. Hot Pants, the uh Knickerbomber, he failed.
With failures like that, who needs victories?
They have imposed massive inconveniences, uh massive encroachments upon our time, massive wastes of money through not doing anything, not blowing up anything.
With failures like that, who needs any victories?
Uh what we're doing this going down this stupid, ludicrous route of not allowing the pilot to announce that you're flying over the Great Lakes.
Uh what we're doing is actually allowing the terrorists to set the terms.
We're allowing the deterr uh the terrorists uh to in effect determine the rules under which we fly.
Remember that thing they used to say back in the days after 911, oh, if we do this, the terrorists will have won.
If we do that, the terrorists will have won.
If every time we respond to one of these failures, incompetent failures, by saying, Oh, no, no, no, we're getting serious now.
We're banning snow globes, and you can't have a paperback book uh within 18 inches of your crotch in the final hour of the flight.
Every time we do that, uh the terrorists have won.
We're handing them another victory.
These Guys, they they they light up the pants and the thing goes off like a damp squib.
Uh but every time we respond in this way, we hand them a victory.
Uh this reactive uh approach to Homeland Security uh will be a disaster.
So we will get into the Panty Bomber and uh the Secretary of Homeland Security's uh reaction to the panty bomber uh in the course of the show today.
1 800 282 2882, Mark Stein InfoRush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, Infor Rush on the EIB network.
Mark Davis will be with you on Wednesday, and then a new year treat for New Year's Eve, the great uh Walter Williams will be here.
But I'm uh glad to be with you this uh happy Christmas bank holiday Monday or happy Christmas non bank non holiday Monday in the United States.
I see um I see Charlie Sheen uh got into a spot of uh difficulty and uh but he uh uh uh regarding some uh little domestic interaction, but apparently he's uh he's out of uh out of jail now and all the rest of it.
Now, Charlie Sheen was one of these 911 truthers, you know, who thinks that 911 was an inside job.
And uh when you've got that kind of uh analytic insight into the real story, and you begin to understand that what you see on the news isn't the isn't really what's out there, uh then you're not trying to tell me that when a man like Charlie Sheen has the guts to stand up and tell the truth about what really happened on September 11th,
and then suddenly, suddenly some some no-named sheriff frames him in some cockamamy domestic incident, spousal domestic incident.
You're not telling me that's the whole story, are you?
Huh?
The man, the one man who had the c had the c the guts to tell us the truth about what happened on 9-11 and suddenly gets framed in some spousal domestic incident.
I don't think I'm gonna be falling for that one.
1-800-282-2882, this panty bomber.
You know, this guy.
The system worked.
The system worked, according to the Secretary for Homeland Security.
This guy, he turns up at the airport, he pays for his flight, one-way ticket in cash.
This is supposed to be uh this is supposed to be the red flag thing now.
I never I don't like buying one-way tickets anymore, because uh ever since 9-11, if you buy a one-way ticket, you risk winding up on the no fly on the no fly uh list.
You know, if I if I decide, hey, I'm gonna uh fly down to New York and guest host uh on the Rush Limbaugh show, but maybe I'll take Amtrak back.
So I just buy a one-way ticket.
Ooh, that sets off all kinds of red flags.
But this guy, this guy turning up and buying a one-way ticket with cash, that doesn't set off any red flags.
Uh the fact that he is on a list of uh people uh of interest, persons of interest uh doesn't set off any red flags.
Uh the fact that he has been banned from the United Kingdom doesn't set off any red flags.
Uh the fact that his father reported him to the intelligence services of uh several foreign nations doesn't set off any red flags.
He's allowed to board the plane.
What's the point of the list then?
What's the point of the list?
You know, the the interesting thing, Robert Gibbs was on TV, and he goes, Well, you know, this list isn't the same as the no fly list.
It may not even be compatible with the no fly list.
Well, we know it might be like these FBI and CIA databases, and one doesn't match the other.
So they got this this other list.
And the official explanation as to why people on this they didn't spot him.
There's for a start, there's 500,000 people on this list.
And so why would they be expected, just because you turn up on there to be able to pluck in recognize the name instantly and pluck it.
Have you ever tried buying a book?
Here, here, here, Mr. Press Secretary, have you ever tried buying a book at Amazon.com?
It's this thing they've got on the internet now.
The kids are crazy about it.
You go on Amazon.com and you buy a book.
They got like millions of customers all over the planet.
And you go on Amazon.com and you buy a book.
And seven years later you go back to buy another book, and you click on Amazon.com, they say, well, given that you enjoyed suicide bombing for dummies in 2002, maybe you'd l maybe you'd be interested in uh in uh uh a hundred and one ways to really pleasure your seventy-two virgins when you get to paradise.
Amazon.com, uh, without trying to, does better data mining than the so-called United States homeland security, high alert terrorist listers.
Robert Gibbs, the the the representative of the supposedly most powerful man in the world says, Oh, he we don't uh we can't be expected just to know instantly about uh pluck one name out of five hundred thousand.
You slide your credit card into a bank machine anywhere on the planet.
They know instantly whether you got the money in your account before they go it to you, uh give it to you.
But this this list, whatever this list is, they can't tell you, they can't make a determination about that list uh whether they should let the guy on the plane.
And then they say the other explanation is, well, you know, he's not really he doesn't really belong to the extremist fringe if he's on this list.
He's just on the fringe of the fringe.
It's like getting a good table in a restaurant.
Yes, your undocumented anchor man sitting in uh America's Anchorman today.
I uh evaded security by secreting copies of the Limbaugh letter in my underwear.
Uh it's fully loaded and ready to blow.
Uh President Obama is going to make a statement on the terror bombing plot.
He's been uh he's been silent.
This happened Christmas Day.
He's been silent now for seventy-two hours.
It's amazing.
This is the longest he's been on TV, off TV since January the twentieth.
You can't keep him off normally.
He's on there, he's on everything.
He's uh doing the the Jay Leno thing.
He's doing the interminable speech uh for the Nobel Prize.
He's doing the doomed speech for the Olympics, he's doing dancing with the stars, he's doing everything.
He's on everything.
He's on TV all the time.
And then suddenly uh we get this uh we get this uh terrorist thing, and he goes away for seventy-two hours.
He's not on the TV, but he's gonna come back and uh and uh and make a statement.
Uh the Homeland Security Secretary uh has now revised her statement that the system worked.
She says uh remarks were now taken out of context, and in fact the system failed miserably.
That that is her update on the situation.
Uh delete the word the system, quote, worked, unquote.
That was a typing error.
I don't know how that got into my statement.
I'm going to fire whichever whichever girl in the stenographic pool was foolish enough to put that in there, because in fact the system, quote, failed miserably, unquote.
Um this terror watch list uh uh is is what this guy was on.
The terror watch list uh has five hundred and fifty thousand names on it.
Um this guy's name, his father, his father had reported him to the United States embassy in Nigeria.
Uh and the information had been shared with the FBI, the State Department, the Justice Department, and the Homeland Security Department, but he turns up to pay cash on a one-way ticket into the United States, and uh and uh uh everybody says, sure, why not?
Come on down.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Uh we o narrowly avoided uh a terrible Christmas Day tragedy, uh in which 300 people would have lost their lives because of incompetence and failure uh by this so-called fifty billion dollar security system.
Uh it isn't it isn't really a laughing matter.
Uh we we owe it own we owe the those lives only to this guy's incompetence and the bravery of this uh rogue Dutchman who leapt out of his seat and uh and got the guy in a chokehold.
Now he won't be allowed to do that because now uh for the last hour of the flight, you'll have to sit with your hands visible.
This is like you can't even do this in a grade school in America.
If you tried to do this in a grade school, public grade school, anywhere in the United States, there would be a class action lawsuit.
Uh if you said to the pupils, you've got to sit there with your hands on your knees for the for the last for for an hour, uh, that principal would be dismissed.
That school board would would fire him.
They would they'd all be tossed out at the next school board election.
But you can tell people flying to the United States, you've got to sit uh with your hands on your knees for the last hour of the flight.
And so what this Dutch guy did when he leapt out of his seat and clobbered the jihadist would be illegal under Janet and Competano's new rules.
Let's go to Willie in Commerce, Michigan.
Who knew there was any commerce in Michigan?
You certainly don't get that impression.
Uh Willie in Commerce, Michigan, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great great to have you with us.
It's great to be you talking to you, Mark.
I just simply thoroughly enjoy when you sit in for rush.
Well, I I love I love being here.
It's uh it's a great honor.
This is a a terrific land where a a penniless immigrant can just wash up on these shores and end up behind the uh golden EIB microphone.
It's uh it's a great honor.
Good to have you with us, Willie.
My comment today is what Robert Gibbs said twice yesterday, once live on Face the Nation and in a pre-recorded or taped delay on Meet the Press, almost simultaneously referred to the incident, you know, from Amsterdam to Detroit as a potential terrorist attacks.
Potential.
Like like we thwarted it before it ever got off the ground.
The guy got past security, he got on the plane, he ignited his device.
Sure, it didn't it didn't do its intended deed, but he refers to it as a potential terrorist attack.
Now when you when you say the guy got on got past security, uh got on the plane, ignited his device, you should actually be saying the alleged guy.
Remember this, Willie.
Because one day this guy the the alleged the the alleged potential attacker uh will will one day be in a court of law, and you don't want to prejudge him here, Willie.
Well, you know, and w I'm I'm just outside of Detroit in Commerce Michigan, and uh now they've uh he has his attorney.
So in in our neighborhood, we're getting a lot a lot of news on this all day because it was such a local event.
And and now his uh court appointed attorney uh wants to stop them from uh getting any DNA evidence uh, you know, and of course the University of Michigan hospital is glad to get him out of their hands, uh although his attorney is is now worried about that he may need some skin graphs.
Really?
That's my heart bleeds.
Uh he needs he i you you be he he may need some skin graphs because he he badly burned uh the uh the uh the the his particulars.
I think that's the his partic which uh when you're uh uh which is actually by itself is interesting because these guys think about that an awful lot because they're heading for the seventy-two virgins and they want to make sure that everything's in work in order to make that equip they want to make sure that that equipment doesn't fail, yes.
Yeah, that's uh that's uh when you get to the when you get to the seventy-two virgins, you want the system to work, as Janet Apolitado uh would say.
No, but you're you're right.
I mean, w when we can't even discuss this honestly, and this is the problem, these guys must be laughing at us.
These uh the fellas in Yemen who uh supposedly were behind this plot and put this guy up to the plot, they must be laughing at us.
W what happened was he got on the plane, uh he ignited the material.
Well, lucky everybody isn't dead.
Uh and yet Robert Gibbs cannot e i uh doesn't even have can't even call it what it is.
Uh call it what it is.
So we have to use these this eunuch language like potential attack.
Uh because we live in a under an administration that prides itself on its eunuch language now.
And the the host of Meet the Press couldn't even get it right, too, because he referred to the incident as using the plane, using the aircraft as a weapon.
No, the guy wasn't flying the plane, he was trying to blow it up.
No, no, no.
And the and the and the funny thing is i i the that if you're a radical cleric in Yemen, like this guy who advised the panty bomber and both uh Major Hassan at Fort Hood, same yet radical cleric, apparently, you you must be laughing at what this tells you uh about the society you're trying to overthrow.
Because it tells them they cannot uh even in their language, never mind anything else, but even in their language they cannot confront the enemy.
They cannot even find the words to ignor um uh in fact they cannot even uh find the words to say the word enemy.
I mean that is a concept that is wholly alien to the liberal mind.
There are no enemies.
Um uh there are just friends we uh haven't yet uh thrown enough money and made enough apologies uh to.
And that that is the whole liberal mindset.
Uh and and and proof so disastrous on this, because these things matters.
It matters when you have something like this where you got lucky, where he ignited the thing but it was a damn squib, uh because he maybe he's incompetent.
I mean, everyone thinks these guys are incompetent, and they're always incompetent until it works.
If you'd been in the lap dance club with the Mohammed Atter and Co.
in the days before September eleventh, when uh when the girls were making jokes about these guys because they were such lousy tippers, you'd have thought they were jokes too.
They were.
They were pathetic, feeble, ludicrous jokes until they pulled it off.
And one day one of these joke jihadists will pull it off, and it won't seem so funny anymore.
And that's why it's important to underst i if if the if the if the best that the world superpower can say about it uh is that, oh, it is maybe a potential attack.
Uh your s you're self-neutering uh the the the political discourse that is absolutely necessary uh to winning uh any war.
Thank you very much uh for your call, Willie.
Willie in Commerce Michigan, it's a local story there.
Incidentally, why do you think there are so many flights from Amsterdam to Detroit?
Uh it doesn't seem like an obvious flight route, does it?
It's uh Amsterdam to Detroit.
Seems like uh, you know, uh fairly minor uh route between two Western cities.
In fact, uh Detroit is near Dearborn, Michigan, which has the biggest Muslim population in the United States, and Amsterdam is a city on the brink of majority Muslim status.
So that in fact uh what you're what you're seeing uh here, what may look like a flight between two Western cities uh from one perspective to another perspective uh is a flight between two uh fast growing outposts of the Dar al Islam.
Uh so again it all depends on how you look at it.
1-800-282-2882, talking about the Christmas Day Panty Bomber, and lots more on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Stein sitting in on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, Inforush on the EIB network.
Uh you know, I I uh flew down from Boston for the show today.
Normally I fly from Burlington, Vermont, but there were no uh flights out of Vermont.
Uh Vermont Airspace was uh closed.
Uh vague curious phrase, I don't know what it means, it's uh due to excess levels of bovine flatulence or something.
It's not safe to take off in that stuff.
So I had to fly from Boston and my uh computer laptop bag was subject to uh uh uh double screening.
They went through it twice because it had given off uh the whiff of something sinister.
And uh the interesting approach of Homeland Security, the TSA guys, was that I'd done something wrong.
And I said, uh look, I have the advantage on you guys.
I know there's nothing in the bag.
So you think the fact that my bag set off your alarms is a reflection on me.
I know there's nothing in the bag.
So the fact that it set off your alarms is a reflection on you.
And that's the point to remember about this homeland security business.
Uh, you think that if they're if they're if they're subjecting three hundred million Americans to exactly the same procedures, that that shows how serious they are.
No.
It shows how incompetent they are, that they cannot establish in a timely manner that you're not a terrorist uh or a smuggler or an illegal alien or anything else.
Uh and every minute they spend on you is a minute they're not spending on guys like the Knickerbomber.
Let's go to Victoria in Palm Beach uh Florida, which is uh kind of rush central.
Uh Victoria, it's great to have you with us on the show.
Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
That I don't understand why commentators are discussing the inconvenience that is being imposed on travelers personally.
I would rather be inconvenienced four hours, five hours, whatever, than to get blown up in the air.
Well well, you know what the salience uh the salient statistic there, Victoria is four hours, five hours, whatever.
Because put a put a number on whatever, and then think about it.
And think about what it does to the economic viability of the airline industry, of American tourism, of the American economy in general.
Because it can never be enough.
What we're saying, the reason some of us uh are annoyed about this is because we're saying you can never win if you play the game this way.
Because they'll do something else.
This guy got the stuff through in his underwear.
Let's say now you manage to let's say they find some uh uh a jihadist finds his uh child bride from Pakistan and he gets her to have breast implants and he and he puts explosives in the breast implants and they manage uh uh uh and then think of the delays you're gonna be subjected to at the airport.
You can never do they'll all all you're doing every time you retrospectively react to this with longer delays is handing them victories and saying, you said the terms of the debate.
Do something else.
Do something else, and we'll add another hour and ninety minutes onto the uh weight people have to uh to time people have to spend at the airports.
And in the end, it won't prevent you being blown up.
Because as uh in the in the IRA's famous words to Mrs. Thatcher, you have to be after they tried to blow her up in Brighton years ago, uh you have to be lucky every day.
We only have to be lucky once.
And if you the object of terror is to terrorize, if you respond uh by in effect panicking and instituting stupid new ro rules and regulations after the stable door, after the horses bolted, uh what you what you'll do then is eventually you'll direct their attention to softer and softer targets.
Maybe one day they'll say, Oh, yeah, it's all getting a bit complicated airplanes now.
Maybe we should blow up a train, uh, maybe we should blow up buses.
Uh eventually they'll always find someone to kill.
But in the meantime, they w terrorists win by terrorizing.
And they terrorize you into changing your behavior.
And that's what they're s they've succeeded in doing uh just uh over this last weekend.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's go to uh Mike in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Mike, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Uh yes, sir, you're exactly right.
What what what this Department of Homeland Security and all is actually putting a strain on the economy right now.
We need to uh get away from all these computer programmed uh database, you know, try to catch them uh cook cookie cutter, one size fits all, and get back to the realism of handling this problem like they did uh my dad worked for the government, he was in three wars, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and then even in his fifties was doing work with the government back in the eighties under Reagan and they had top secret military.
Let the military guys handle it.
They had them all throughout the United States doing the job like red cell type programs um back in the early nineties and eighties, and they they handled it in a more realist type fashion where they were at actually instead of waiting back and waiting for something to happen, they were on the offensive instead of the defensive, which we're all now.
Yeah.
You're you're absolutely absolutely right about that that that point, my god, uh going on the offensive.
It's it and the thing is is it is it was less money, the military was handling it and they're very effective.
And and the people got to retain their constitutional rights.
Right now we're doing a one eighty and we're doing it exactly the opposite.
We're not letting those guys handle in a real terrorist type fashion and going after these guys in a realism type of environment.
We're sitting back and playing this game of, you know, well, we're putting we're punishing the victim.
We're saying every every time one guy does something, uh three hundred million Americans and anyone coming to America on business or tourism or whatever is gonna have to pay the price for that.
We're punishing the we're punishing the victim.
Uh we'll talk more about this uh straight ahead.
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Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
I just want to pick up on one thing that Mike was saying.
You know, uh i i I wish it was as easy as it was th that you could just go uh to foreign countries and kill people.
But there's a the gr the great problem is that a lot of these people causing trouble are in fact within our borders.
John McCain said uh during his presidential campaign, he said, in this struggle, scholarships will be far more important than smart bombs.
Most of these terrorists have got scholarships.
Uh they're the most westernized uh of the uh uh Muslims, they're the ones who spend most time in Western education.
They're middle class, they're privileged, they're not poor goat herds in the caves of Waziristan.
Osama bin Laden ha had summer school at Oxford.
Uh Muhammad Atta was a Hamburg University urban planning student.
The guy who beheaded uh Daniel Pearl was a London School of Economics graduate.
And now we have this guy whose dad's uh house in London is uh worth two point five million pounds.
Now I forget at the moment whether the pound's collapsing faster than the dollar, because they're in a race to the bottom, the two these two currencies.
Uh but I think that that's about like four million dollars.
So, in other words, we've got a poor, impoverished, ignorant, poor wee simpleton jihadist whose dad has a four million dollar second home.
Uh it is there is a challenge here.
The most privileged westernized Muslims are the ones behind a lot of these attacks.
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