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July 5, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchor Man returns Monday for a full week of all American excellence in broadcasting.
But uh today on post-Independence Day, it's your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in, happy to take back, take back three hours of American airtime uh in revenge for the American Revolution.
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Live from the Southern Tibet in sunny South Florida, it's altered lime Friday.
Yes, indeed.
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You know the way this works.
Monday to Thursday, we exercise strict control over the editorial content of this program.
But today, Friday, we throw it all out the window.
You can talk about anything that is on your mind.
Uh I I always love talking to liberal callers.
So if you're someone who thinks Obama's doing a grand job, if you think the Arab Springs turned out great, if you think his African tour is working swell, uh if you think Obamacare is a huge success story, like Nancy Pelosi does, give me a call.
Love to hear from you.
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Uh call up, because that's the I love the By the way, if you'd like to comment on the War the Washington Post celebrated American Independence Day by running an editorial saying that uh the US you know US Revolution, the American Revolution was a complete flop, and that America would have been better to uh stay uh stick with George III and stay within his Majesty's dominions.
If you look at the general situation of, say, uh those who stuck with the crown, like Canada or Australia today.
That's how Don't blame me, don't blame me, by the way.
Uh that's that's the Washington Post.
That's the major newspaper of America's Capital City.
That's how they chose to celebrate Independence Day.
So if you're a Washington Post reader and you agree with that, you think that makes sense that this whole declaration of independence thing was a big bust and a flop, and you shouldn't have gone there, then do uh give me a call.
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I want to correct something I said about the Lone Ranger, Hollywood's latest uh mega disaster.
Uh it's got Johnny Depp.
Uh it's nearly three hours long, and it's a bus.
People are people are going in there, they think, well, things are gonna because the thing that the Lone Ranger, you think everything is like it zips along to lump it's like fast moving.
Uh and instead they've got this thing proceeds at a glacial pl pace.
The explanation for his mask given is that he uh is he wears the mask because if he takes the mask off, he's just another white man who is guilty of uh uh of participating in the killing and oppression of Native Americans.
So he wears the mask because he is ashamed of his white face.
And I had forgotten, I'm amazed at how many, because I don't think I've uh uh listened to uh a Lone Ranger episode since 1934 and whatever radio station in Detroit it started in back then.
I haven't haven't heard it, haven't heard an episode of the Lone Ranger in eighty years.
Uh and I'd forgotten the origin, in fact, the reason he wears the mask, and and I'm amazed by the number of people who, you know, wrote to point people are entirely relaxed about uh Obamacare and economic sclerosis and the end of American power in the world.
But if you don't know your Lone Ranger stuff, they they get so I've had a bazillion emails from people who are saying, Look, everyone knows in the first episode of the Lone Range on radio TV, every time they tell the story.
He's in uh posse of band at Texas Rangers, uh, and they're uh ambushed by Butch Cavendish.
Butch Cavendish.
And uh the Lone Survivor is the guy who we now know as the Lone Ranger.
His name is uh Harry Reed.
John Reed.
John Reed, not Harry Reid.
Uh Harry Reed is the man who sponsors this is the Harry Reed is the Senate Majority Leader who gets public funding for the Elco Nevada Cowboy Poetry Festival.
So he does he obviously Harry Reed and John Reed are the two critical figures in iconic Western uh cowboy mythology.
Uh but Harry Reed gets the public funding for the Cowboy Poetry Festival, John Reed is the guy who is the Lone Ranger.
He's the lone guy who survives this ambush by Butch Cavendish.
And so he wears a mask so that if he when he's riding around, Butch doesn't uh see that he in fact survives uh the uh has survived the massacre.
But in the new version of the film, the explanation given is that the mask is there to represent uh represent white guilt.
Uh there's a lot of this is how Hollywood wants to celebrate Fourth of July.
This is how Oliver Stone celebrated Fourth of July.
Oliver Stone was at a film festival in the Czech Republic, the Carlo Vivary International Film Festival.
And he uh and he told uh his audience, the European audience of uh Big Shots, the world is in danger with our tyranny, with American tyranny, in other words.
It's a disgrace that Obama is more concerned with hunting down Snowden than reforming these George Bush style eavesdropping techniques.
To me, Snowden is a hero because he revealed secrets that we should all know that the United States has repeatedly violated the Fourth Amendment.
He should be welcomed and offered asylum, Stone continued, but he has no place to hide because every country is intimidated by the United States.
This isn't this is what's wrong with the world today, and it's very important that the world recognizes and gives asylum to Snowden.
Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' big brother attitude to the ward the world.
We need countries to say no to the United States.
The United States is the dominant power in the universe with its eavesdropping abilities and cyber abilities.
And the world is in danger with our tyranny.
This is the these are the words of Oliver Stone, acclaimed motion picture director, Oliver Stone in the Czech Republic on the Fourth of July.
You almost get the impression a Republican it would be in the uh is in the White House the way he's talking.
Uh but he's not right, he's not wrong on this on this NSA business.
You know, big government is wrong, uh, regardless of who's in the White House.
Big big government, the permanent bureaucracy, a permanent, all powerful bureaucracy is wrong, whoever's doing it.
And I mentioned earlier, you know, it's like fun to play in the car, King George III or King Barack.
George III or King Brack.
Play play it in the car and see how it how it goes.
Uh quote, he is called to from the Declaration of Independence, quote, he has called together legislative bodies at places unusual and comfortable and distant from the depository of their public records, unquote.
In other words, the charge against George the Third is that he he uh he is at war with straightforward, honest uh accountable government.
You know, well what's the what have we just seen with the immigration bill?
What have we just seen with the so-called gang of eight cooking it up in darkness?
Supposedly written written by uh what was that thing, the Corker Hoven amendment?
Uh those guys, uh that guy, Senator Hoven, he's a Republican, I'm being equal uh equ equal-handed here.
He doesn't even know what's in that amendment that he supposedly authored.
Uh so we have gone now.
We are us our legislative bodies are taking place uh at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the people's gaze.
It's cooked up in dark rooms.
Marco Rubio uh and the gang of eight, they all they all trust each other.
They all get on.
That's not that's not legislating.
That's not a publicly accountable legislature.
He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
That was the principal charge against George III, and that is a precise definition of the hyper regulatory state today, where at any moment today, any bureaucrat from a bazillion agencies you've never heard of, can descend on you and uh and claim that you're in breach of uh this or that regulation or this or that law.
Um there's a guy in uh there's the the um uh Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control uh jumped a 20-year-old female college student in Virginia because they thought her her box of bottled water was in fact an alcoholic beverage.
Seven undercover cops, seven undercover cops.
Uh they jump on the hood of this uh girl's car and they draw guns on her.
She's 20 years old.
I've no idea what she looks like.
Maybe she looks like she's seventeen years old.
Maybe she looks like she's 23, 24 years old.
Who knows?
But uh under any scenario, do you need seven undercover agents to take down a twenty-year-old girl holding a box of bottled water?
Uh every bureaucracy now, it's worse than when he said when they were talking about it with George the Third, you know, these uh a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people.
Uh they were reasonably uh low tech bureaucrats.
Now every single government agency at every level thinks it's SEAL team six.
Uh in uh at the US Department of Agriculture, I talked about this uh here on this show a couple of years ago.
They have a bunny team six uh that goes around harassing, goes around poking through the backyards of children's magicians on the off chance that they might be using rabbits on stage.
Uh a uh a a magician, a magician has uh just been given an eight-page letter from the uh United States Department of Agriculture telling him that by July the 29th, he needs to have a place in place, a written disaster plan detailing all the steps he would take to help get the rabbit through a disaster, such as a tornado, fire, flood, uh, that kind of thing.
Uh they want to know how he will protect his rabbit during a disaster.
He can't, it's not enough to say, well, I'll just carry him round in the top hat.
I'll carry him round in the top hat, I'll put the top hat on my head and I will flee, because they're saying, no, it's a tornado.
The tornado might whip the top hat off your head and uh then the bunny would fly off, and who knows what would happen.
Uh a uh a guy called Bob McCarty uh has been basically doing a sterling job of following all these mag this is a magician called Marty Hahn, who has to come up with a cotton tail rabbit disaster relief plan uh in the event that a tornado strikes his top hat while he's producing a rabbit from it.
The United States Department of Agriculture uh requires a children's uh magician to have a written disaster plan for evacuating his rabbit and needs to demonstrate that he and in this case his wife,
who I gather is the assistant in the spangled tights and all the rest of it, and who gets sawn in half and all the rest of it, after she's been sawn in half, will she still be able to implement the rabbit uh the rabbit rescue disaster relief plan in a way that is in compliance with the United States Department of Agriculture.
George the Third wouldn't have thought it would never have occurred to George the Third to have I don't know whether they had children's magicians in the Thirteen Colonies.
But I would if they did, I would bet you could f you would you would not find anywhere in uh New Hampshire or in Rhode Island or in Virginia a children's magician who in amongst all the swarms of new officers that George the Third was sending hither to eat out their substance.
It would never have occurred to George the Third to go and demand you file an eight-page disaster release relief fund for your cotton tail bunny rabbit.
Uh so we should take seriously without you don't have to agree, you don't have to go the full Oliver Stone uh to see that uh that uh American bureaucracy is out of control, American bureaucracy is far too many powers, American bureaucracy lives in a kind of fantasy world.
The night vision, the night vision features on on the new uh Obama limo are only the hard end of it.
The uh the the seven agents taking down a twenty-year-old girl carrying uh a box of bottled water uh are are the are the cheap uh touring end of that same mentality.
Uh that now the people uh two uh two and a third centuries after George the Third, the guy uh who is erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substances are Obama, the Democratic Party, the big government state and a Republican Party than when it gets into office is too content just to let it tick over uh and roll along as opposed to rolling back that bureaucracy.
Mark Stein in for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Sherry in Memphis, Tennessee.
Sherry, you're live on America's number one radio show.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you, Mark.
Um thank you for taking my call.
I called to say that I think the Republican Party needs to show a lot of empathy for Mexican and Spanish people who are here in this country illegally.
They're my friends that I know that are Spanish American or Mexican Amer um want to be Mexican American, they're here illegally.
They work hard, one was a lawyer, went to the university in Mexico, she's now over here hoping to get citizenship.
She cleans houses.
Well, wait a minute, Sherry.
Why would a lawyer from the University of Mexico uh want to emigrate illegally to the United States and clean houses?
I can think of a lot of reasons, and I imagine everyone can for freedom for what uh a better life that they have for their children, for their family, for their relatives in this country.
A lot of people bring over their relatives, yeah, so so just so you're saying that the problem here then is Mexico.
That Mexico's a dump, so even a lawyer from the University of Mexico would rather work cleaning floors uh for for somebody in the United States, would rather come and mop my kitchen.
She than work as a lawyer in Mexico.
She does because uh she does.
Um I would say that the Republican Party has a lacking not that they don't care about the conditions and the plight and the needs and the necessities of Spanish people and Mexican people, but they need to express the sympathy.
Well, well let's I don't think it's been expressed so that so that other people that are Americans and illegal aliens from Mexico and Spanish America know that the Republicans really do feel for their plight that they want a better life.
Well when you say you feel the Well, when you say expressing sympathy, Sherry, you mean empathy, empathy.
Empathy, empathy, that they should legalize their status in the United States.
Let's explore that a bit.
Because it's true life in Mexico, life in large parts of Latin America uh can be extremely unpleasant compared to living in, say, uh Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Westchester County, New York, or Malibu, California.
Um but uh there's uh where do where does that stop?
For example, the Congo in Africa.
Uh six mil it's it's brutal there.
Six million people died uh in the last few years during the Congolese civil war, and it never made the papers because there was no way to blame it on George W. Bush.
So there was nothing in the papers about it.
Six million people dead.
Uh the pygmies had it particularly bad because both sides liked eating the pygmies.
They thought they made a very nutritional appetizer.
Now, do you why why there are millions and millions of people in the Congo who have a crummy life?
There are I don't know whether they have lawyers in the Congo, to be honest.
It doesn't seem like they'd have much use for them uh at the moment.
But let's just suppose there was a a highly qualified Congolese lawyer.
Do you would how would you feel about uh uh about millions of Congolese uh coming to this country for the same reason that they they feel the same way uh free of mine in Saire and in the United States?
Okay, that's yeah, which is what the the the Congo was uh uh briefly called under its uh crazy uh psycho.
They're not on the border of America.
No, no, I understand that, but we're we're just establishing the principle here, because they got jet travel now and it's very easy.
Uh so we we've got we've got people who are Mexican and want to come here should be able to come here, people who are Congolese and who should be able to come here.
Now uh let's say what about Greece?
Greece is in the economic toilet at the moment.
If you're a uh you said you like hard working people.
Now uh Greece is Greece.
If you're a hard working person, you're wasting your time staying in Greece uh because it's an economic basket case.
Do you think millions of Greek people should be able to come to the United States for better?
The point that I'm making is that the Republican Party has had a sort of a negative big been given whether unfairly or not unfairly, sort of have a negative image towards uh illegal Spanish and Mexican people in this country and I think they need to have a positive, empathetic uh speaking out for them, understanding they're coming here to be c for the same reason that all people came here who didn't have much money who wanted to be able to do that.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's that's not true.
Uh the vast majority of people who came to the United States throughout its history, uh, came here legally.
They observed the laws of the United States.
They did not set up a shadow state and send uh and send huge sums of money uh in the form of remittances back to their families in Mexico, for example.
They did not do that.
That's that's historically not the case.
There's no equivalent to what has happened in the last forty years uh with any other period or wave of American immigration, Sherry.
Uh we'll we'll we'll pick it up again.
We gotta run, but we'll pick it up uh Sherry's point when we return.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
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Hey, great to be with you.
We were talking to Sherry from uh Memphis and uh we're obliged to go to an EIB, a hugely capitalistic profit center.
But I believe Sherry's uh still there.
And Sherry, you you think that the GOP needs to express its empathy to Mexican people.
Yes, sir.
But I think they I think that that would do so much.
One where this whole situation for the problem would make Mexican and Spanish people, you know, feel better about their hope for the future and and the way they are considered the way they are treated and the way they're thought about and it would also help the Republican Party tremendously.
Because it is a caring party.
It's against abortion it is for life it is for the freedoms of people.
It is a wonderful party but in this one respar respect I feel that's just my opinion that they have a negative image instead of a positive image.
Uh how do you feel about the uh the remark of Jorge Castaneda, the Mexican cabinet minister, who says that the US needs to accept more low skilled migrants from Central America because otherwise they're going to stay in Mexico Well I'm not gonna really get into the politics.
I feel that um Mexico um believes there uh a lot of people in Mexico believe there are Christian people and if they should do what they think is the right thing for them to do that would be uh pleasing to God.
I'm not going to get into the politics of that but I am concerned about the plight of people who need help who come to this country who want to earn a living who want to have better life and hope for their families and their but why why should anybody have look I'm an immigrant.
I can't walk in I'm from Canada, right?
Why should why should uh i and and you said okay Greece isn't a border country, the Congo's in a border country, Canada's a border country.
Can thirty million Canadians come and live here illegally?
Well you know my family is French.
They're canox from Canada.
Yeah that's great.
That's great.
But do you want all seven million Quebecers then coming and should they also they're border people should they be able to walk along the Vermont border, walk across the New Hampshire border?
I'm not saying that I'm saying this is an individual choice by each person to make a decision for their life and for their family and for their relatives that well okay well look wait let's do let's back up here again Sherry.
I made that individual choice as an individual right I'm an immigrant okay and those of us who made the mistake of coming here as legal immigrants strongly dislike the way lawbreakers, lawbreakers are now what Americans understand by uh by quote immigrants unquote.
Do you think I should have just walked across the Canadian border, started working here, uh started taking the jobs of uh uh of Americans this country has an uh uh uh a seven point six percent unemployment rate and the lowest rate of uh uh of worker participation in decades uh and that basically means uh millions of low skilled American workers have been priced out out of the market by people who walked into the country illegally should I have had the right to walk
into the country illegally I respect the way that you came in I think that's great and it's wonderful but I also have compassion upon people who are already here they have needs, they have very, very basic needs, just having a roof over their head and food in their mouths.
This woman is just looking for places to clean house so she can meet her basic needs, not even for luxury, just her basic needs for her for herself and her family.
And I think we need to have that compassion for anybody, not just Spanish and Mexican Americans, but including Spanish and Mexican Americans.
So you're so you're not be Americans.
It means very much to them to have be an American.
And I don't think people will ha who told who told you that.
Well, uh, because I have Spanish friends, I've taught to them and they have taught to me, expressed to me their their um their ideas, have their feelings, and you know, I like I said, I found them to be very nice, very hard working, and I think they would make wonderful citizens.
Do you want to live in Latin America?
Um, if God called me there, I would go.
I would be where God called me to go.
Well, good good luck with that, because good luck with that, because uh th these these are these are basic cultural issues.
Border immigration, which you correctly said is border immigration is different from any kind of uh other uh any other kind of immigration.
Uh it's it's in effect settlement.
Uh it's moving the border north.
Uh that's what goes on, and that's true in any city.
You can look at the uh the the Southern Irish, northern Irish border, where uh b where where uh villages uh are gradually being deprotestantized there in the course of the troubles.
Border immigration uh is uh is different from from uh a bunch of people flying over or coming over and landing at Ellis Island from Italy or Russia or wherever.
Uh and that and the way to bet is this the majority of children in Arizona's grade schools right now are Hispanic.
Uh the majority of uh children born in Dallas General Hospital are Hispanic.
So the way to bet is that those will be Hispanic societies, Latin American societies.
Which Latin American society would you enjoy living in, Sherry?
Well, I don't know that that's true because I've heard it said that this that the Muslims are are growing in France, the Muslims are growing in England, that um I don't think it I don't think one out of one out of every people who have needs, basic needs, who need compassion, who need love, who need caring by all Americans.
Why why hey Sherry, Sherry, here's a thought.
Why don't Americans clean their own floors?
Why don't Americans mow their own lawns?
What's so liberal and compassionate uh about having an illegal workforce uh that comes in that you don't have to pay social security taxes on uh to come and uh mow your lawn and clean your floor?
What does it do to Mexico?
Wouldn't it be better to fix Mexico?
Wouldn't it be better if Mexico didn't have if Mexico's principal export wasn't its population?
What does that say?
What does that do for Mexico?
What do you mean they need help real help and without citizenship?
They what help do they need?
The basic needs of life just the basic needs what like emergency room health care, free schools, they put all that.
I'm talking about food, I'm talking about housing, wait so wait a minute, wait a minute.
So you're saying that in effect there's fifteen million people in this country who need food, who shouldn't be here but who need food.
We don't turn our back on people who need food.
There was an old tradition in the West that whenever you needed food they call they would follow the line where you always got a free meal, one free meal, no questions asked.
Yeah, so you can get one free meal, one free meal, one free meal and then you go back to Mexico.
No, one free me they would go uh the line.
If you were going across Montana looking for a job, you would go where you could go to ranches to get one free meal as you went along to get because you don't turn people away for food and for housing and for medical needs.
You don't turn people away, you have compassion and you say, I want to meet your needs and you love them.
It's Christ is Christ love us, is God love Christmas.
What benefit, what benefit is it to the citizenry of the United States uh to have to legalize maybe fifteen million uh low skilled Latin American workers with a right to family reunification to bring in another forty million people so that would you would have an extra legalized population of sixty million low skilled Latin Americans?
Where's the where is the benefit to the existing citizenry of the United States?
I will I will give you that.
That a lot of these people will come in, their relatives will come in.
But whenever you welcome people from other shores, they bring culture, they bring attributes, they bring gifts, they bring it to the city.
Yeah, I know I like I like like cucaracha and uh and the Mexican hat dance and all the rest of it.
I but I've got all the Mexican culture I need.
I mean, if you've got sixty million Mexicans, how many more Mexicans do you need?
Do you not feel do you not feel Sherry?
Wouldn't you like to meet an Uzbek or a Fijian?
Why do you want to go Mexican?
They're here and they have needs, and we cannot we need to help them.
Sherry, do you want your do you uh let's uh do you want your country to die, Sherry?
Do you want your country to cease to exist as you've known it?
That would happen.
I believe that we would be rewarded.
When you do something good, then you then it works out for the best.
When you do something, when you turn your back, with the goods from the arrangement rewarded, you help someone.
And when you turn your back on someone's knees, then you know that that hurts yourself.
That that mars your character, mars your thinking, and and it destroys you from the inside.
So you think that you think that uh that not uh l not expressing empathy for Mexican people is destroying the Republican Party from the inside?
I think that the Republican Party needs to really show empathy for it, apply a Spanish and Mexican people here because they have a great need, and this will have the Spanish and Mexican people.
Wait a minute, they chose Republican party.
They chose to come here.
They chose to come here.
Mexico exports people.
As a conscious, they they are uh it is a corrupt uh uh society that uh as a matter of policy drives its low, unskilled population north, so it has fewer of them, so it is not Mexico's problem, so it is our problem.
And on this independence day, Sherry, I meant what I said that your country will die because if you don't have borders, you don't have a nation.
Uh that's what President Reagan says.
Well, what but we but you're saying borders are voluntary.
I'd love it if thirty thousand uh thirty million Canadians came come down here.
I want a hockey team in every single American town.
I want Selene Dion booming out in every town like the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.
Let's have thirty million Canadians come down here.
Let's they'll have needs too.
Let's give them food.
The poor people, they've just been eating poutine all their lives.
Let's give them real authentic American food like hot dogs and uh and and and just and just welcome them and show compassion to them and show understanding to them.
It's cold up there.
It's way warmer down in Mexico.
They need they're existing on seal pelts.
Let's have them come down here.
Let's open it up to let's open it up to everybody.
Why should why should in an age of foreign travel, why shouldn't the Congolese and the Greeks, Belgians, there aren't enough Belgians in this country.
There's not enough Uzbeks.
There's seven billion people on the planet, and I won't re all of them want to be Americans.
They're all just hardworking people who want to be Americans.
All of them, they're just right now they're Uzbeks, they're Papuans, they're Tuvaluans, but they really want to be Tuvaluan Americans.
Let's let them all in.
And the sooner that all seven billion people on the planet are all living in the United States.
We won't need John Kerry to take the uh to to come in to work on the Fourth of July because there'll be no foreign affairs, because every single foreigner will be an American.
Sherry, that is the recipe for the death of your nation.
Uh that is a happy independence day message.
Thank you very much for your call.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush, lots more to come.
Music by Ben Thede Mark Stein, uh Mark Stein Infor Rush.
Uh, I enjoyed talking.
I enjoyed talking to Sherry, but um I've just uh I've just got a petition here signed from three million Americans who uh who just repealed the Declaration of Independence and um want them want me to uh email this to Buckingham Palace to tell the Queen to take the place back.
That's what Sherry did for them.
Uh traveling during Rabadat, Important advice for the Transport Transportation Security Administration.
Uh it's not just Fourth of July.
Around this time, around the Fourth of July each year, it's generally Fourth of July.
Uh but Ramadan, is it just me or does Ramadan seem to come round earlier every year?
Anyway, Ramadan starts uh July 9th and ends on Thursday, August the 8th.
And then TSA has issued a some guidelines for you.
You may be travelling during Ramadan, uh, and they're warning you of things that they want to be Ramadan compliant at the TSA.
So they're still going to go uh searching through your genitalia and all the rest of it, but they want you to be aware that there are some things that you should pay no attention to.
So they've issued things that you may notice passengers, fellow passengers who are observing Ramadan at the airport and engaging in the following activities.
Uh passengers observing Ramadan may be more likely to engage in prayer at airports or on airplanes while travelling than at other times of the year.
Uh before prayer, uh passengers may be going through ablutions, i.e.
a cleansing or washing of certain areas of the body that is usually done in private, but may be observed in airport washrooms uh airport restrooms.
By the way, for any of you transgendered uh Muslims out there in California, do feel free to use uh whatever uh restroom you like to perform your ablutions in during Ramadan, because Ramadan is for the transgender too.
Uh passengers observing Ramadan may be seen reading, listening to or orally reciting the holy Quran at airports and on airplanes, and passengers observing Ramadan may carry prayer beads and whisper prayers constantly.
So if you if you're on an if you're on a flight, all this stuff is cool.
The the the the TSA wants to accommodate people who want to carry prayer beads, uh recite from the Holy Quran and whisper prayers constantly during a flight.
That is nothing unusual.
You're not to make a big fuss about it.
You're not to think the guy is about to light up his underwear uh or any of that kind of stuff.
You're not to think he's a shoe bomber in waiting or anything.
Don't tackle him to the ground, just like uh join in on the Alahuac bars if you're not sure.
It's like, you know, it's like all these kind of sing alongs.
If you don't know the verses, join in on the chorus.
Join in on the Alohu Akbar.
Uh it doesn't mean anything.
The TSA, the TSA is Ramadan sensitive.
So this is this is how it goes now.
Independence day twenty thirteen.
For Independence Day, for Independence Day, uh in Boston, for the Boston Pops, big fourth of July fireworks.
You will have your beach umbrella seized because the Boston police think you could use it as a spear.
That's how sensitive the Boston police are to uh traditional American expressions of patriotism like a beach umbrella.
Uh but at the Transport Security Administration, uh at Ramadan, it's okay to recite, it's okay to get on a long haul flight from Boston, go to Logan Airport, get on the plane to LAX, and feel free to recite from the Koran all the way along, because everybody understands that that's just Ramadan.
And that is the United States, that is independence.
That is Independence Day 2013.
Free-born American citizens surrendering their beach umbrellas to celebrate the Fourth of July in Boston, and the TSA joining in celebrations of Ramadan on long haul flights across the country.
Mark Stein in For Rush, more to come.
Mark Stein in For Rush, more to come.
Alan West, uh former congressman from Florida, has blasted Lady Gagger for her rendition of the national anthem, in which she changed the final line of America's National Anthem to Does that Star Spangled Flag of Pride yet wave?
Or the land of the free and a home for the gays.
That's Lady Gaga's Independence Day message.
Uh the land of the free and a home for the gays.
You know, you guys wouldn't have this problem if you just stuck with God Save the Queen.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
Mark Stein in for Rush, the man himself returns live Monday.
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