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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in Mark Stein live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
	Don't worry.
	The show is in the best of hands.
	Mr. Snerdley is in New York City.
	As we established yesterday, he flew up from Palm Beach in full recline all the way.
	He does the whole show in full recline.
	He's prone now, crushing HR's knees, even as we speak.
	We've got HR monitoring and Mr. Snerdley because when you've got these sinister foreign guest hosts on the air, it requires intense scrutiny to make sure they don't go rogue and the whole show goes to pieces.
	Don't worry, Eric Erickson, authentic all-American guest host, Eric Erickson, will be here tomorrow.
	And Rush returns next week.
	We have a strategy, by the way.
	We have a strategy.
	Hallelujah.
	Blessed be the strategists.
	Yesterday, we did not have a strategy on ISIS.
	We had a strategy.
	The United States government had a strategy on duck genitalia.
	As we discussed, the United States government has been studying duck genitalia in great detail.
	They can tell you everything about duck genitalia.
	That map you might think is a map of factions in western Syria and eastern Iraq is in fact an illustration of duck genitalia showing that the female duck's genital parts run.
	I'm trying to remember how this was now, clockwise.
	That's right.
	The female duck has a clockwise corkscrew, while the male duck has a penis that is a counterclockwise corkscrew.
	This is what the study has determined.
	And it prompted, as you may recall, in the second hour, one caller to this show to observe that Obama is trying to insert his counterclockwise foreign policy into a clockwise corkscrew of a world, which is very true.
	But Obama is in Estonia now.
	He hits all the glamour spots.
	He's in Estonia today, Wales tomorrow.
	Well a life.
	And he has announced that, in fact, that the government does have a strategy to deal with ISIS.
	And he said that he was going to destroy and degrade ISIS.
	And then he got chit-chatting again.
	And a couple of minutes later, he started talking.
	Instead of destroying and degrading ISIS, he said he would be managing, managing ISIS once he'd, quote, organize the Middle East.
	Good luck with that, by the way.
	Organize the Middle East.
	So in the first part of his little press conference, he was destroying and degrading ISIS.
	And a couple of minutes later, he was saying we could manage it as long once we'd organized the Middle East.
	And Elizabeth Hasselbeck on Fox News said that he was engaged in a war of words with himself.
	And I don't think that's true, actually.
	I think this is what happens when he wanders off the prompter and you glimpse the real Obama.
	Obviously, somebody at some point said to him, look, this is bad.
	They're decapitating Americans all over the internet now.
	They're specifically labeling them a message to America.
	They're mocking you.
	They've got this stuff up all over the internet showing people posing with the ISIS flag outside the White House and outside some big building in Chicago, whatever it was, promising, in effect, that ISIS is going to come to the United States.
	ISIS was already there, in fact, as they say in their videos, where they're in your states, in your cities, on your streets.
	And they're already waving that flag around.
	And one day they're going to run that flag up the White House and it's going to be flying over the White House.
	That's their promise.
	And there's got, well, no, it's a real flag.
	It's not a hashtag.
	We need a bigger hashtag for that, by the way, because it's not.
	Jen Saki at the P is silent, much like American foreign policy in general.
	Jen Saki posed with that hashtag saying, we stand with Ukraine.
	And how that worked out for the Ukrainians, we're just seeing.
	And Obama said today, he said, we're shoulder, he said, we stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.
	Those shoulders are like 5,000 miles apart.
	And that's as close as his shoulder is going to get to their guy's shoulder.
	But he's not at war.
	There's no war of words with himself.
	He ran and he was elected to be the anti-Bush.
	That was the reason people were sick of it after eight years of the war presidency, of jihad, of terrorism, of all that.
	People said, he ran on a specific pledge.
	You know, America is coming home, to use George McGovern's words.
	It was going to do, as in Obama's words, nation building at home.
	And that's what people wanted.
	And so what happened here was with all the head chopping going on all over the internet, some guy, one of his writers, one of the 12-year-olds on his writing staff said, you've got to sound butch.
	When they ask you something about this guy who had his head chopped off, you've got to sound like a real man, a real leader.
	You've got to have some tough talk in you.
	Something happened similar to John Kerry in the second debate, if you remember whatever it was now, 10 years ago.
	He'd been going around saying, oh, before I'll take any action, we have to pass a global test.
	And people thought this all sounded a bit weedy and wimpy.
	And so somebody wrote him some lines for the second debate in which he all but promised to hunt down terrorists and personally throttle them to death with his bare hands.
	And that's what happened here.
	Some guy, one of the 12-year-olds on the writing staff, wrote him some butch rhetoric.
	So he said, our strategy is to destroy and degrade ISIS.
	And then he'd finished with the lines they wrote for him.
	So as always happens, he kept on gabbing, he kept on talking.
	And a couple of minutes later, what he really meant about, what he really thought about this came out, that ISIS is no big deal.
	We can manage it as long as we organize the Middle East, which he's got no plan to do.
	So we have a guy who is basically disengaged from the world.
	And when he goes to this NATO summit in Wales tomorrow, there's what is it now, 28 countries in NATO?
	He doesn't know these guys.
	He's got no relationships with these guys in the way that is normal for world leaders.
	They don't get on with everybody.
	Bush didn't get on with Jean-Cretien in Canada, but he got on very well with Tony Blair.
	He got on very well with John Howard down in Australia.
	He got on well with Angela Merkel in Germany.
	He didn't get on with Chirac, but he got on with Sarkozy.
	Sarkozy couldn't get hold of Obama.
	Obama doesn't want to put in the tie.
	He's actually got no interest.
	He's like a lot of these, as we were saying yesterday.
	Multiculturalism absolves you of having any interest in other cultures.
	And Obama doesn't actually like foreigners terribly much.
	Even when he goes to Oslo to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize, he says, Thanks, see ya.
	And he hasn't got time for dinner with the king of Norway.
	So he doesn't know.
	And he's meeting with these guys.
	He doesn't know them.
	He's got no personal relationships.
	He's got no cards to call in.
	And he's got lines like organizing the Middle East.
	He's got no interest in organizing the Middle East.
	Even if you could do it, he doesn't want to do it.
	They're just words.
	They're just words.
	And to modify Trotsky's old line, Obama may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in him.
	And the line.
	And when you, just to bring it back to immigration, when you abolish your borders and you abolish immigration law, as Obama has done, he doesn't have the power to do that, he doesn't have the authority to do that, but he's torn up U.S. immigration law and dissolved the southern border.
	There's no actual, no longer any distinction between home and abroad, between domestic and foreign, between the world and Main Street.
	And a very good example of that, courtesy of the local TV station out of Minneapolis, KMSP, is this fellow who was killed fighting for ISIS.
	He's an ISIS guy, Abdurrahman Mohammed of Minneapolis.
	He has nine children, by the way.
	He's gone off to fight for ISIS and he's been killed.
	And he's left behind nine children.
	I wrote a whole book on demography, by the way.
	And I appreciate the way these guys are holding up their end of the birthway.
	But when the guy fighting for ISIS has nine kids and your nice NPR listening soccer mom just as one designer baby at the age of 39, that goes to show you how eventually, as I said, the world comes to you.
	This guy, Abdurrahman Mohamed, do you know what he did back in Minneapolis before he joined ISIS and went off to chop heads off people all over Syria and Iraq?
	This, you know, he didn't ever show.
	He worked at Minneapolis International Airport.
	He had a security clearance.
	He had a security clearance.
	Now, he's not a pilot or anything.
	He just cleaned the planes.
	He's the guy who goes on to the plane.
	You've seen them when, you know, if you're stuck at LaGuardia or West Palm Beach or any of these hell holes with one of these gate delays, and eventually you all crowd onto the plane and the clean, sometimes you see them.
	The cleaners haven't finished cleaning the planes.
	So they're going in there, sticking stuff on the planes, taking stuff off, getting rid of all the old newspapers up and down the aisle, shoving things in plastic bags.
	That's what he did.
	He's basically the last person able to put stuff on the plane before takeoff.
	And he's a member of ISIS.
	He's a soldier of ISIS.
	And well, he must be doing something.
	He must be doing something right.
	He must have.
	Mr. Surdley makes a good point, though.
	He's a preferred, he's a member of a preferred Democrat constituency.
	And basically, the idea that anyone does background checks and all these people, we have all of us, the rest of us, the war on terror.
	We're the ones, we go to the airport, we take our shoes off, we shuffle through there, we get these lunatics barking the same old garbage at us.
	You can't have more than three fluid ounces of this or that.
	If you're taking a pie back home for your big family Thanksgiving in a couple of months' time, TSA has a policy on the constituency of the pumpkin mix in your pumpkin pie.
	Because if the pumpkin pie is not sufficiently solid, it counts as a liquid.
	And you could take that pumpkin pie through to the secure area and weaponize the pumpkin pie and blow that plane out of the sky on Thanksgiving.
	So they have a policy on that.
	But they don't have a policy.
	See, we're doing all that.
	And we'll be taking off our shoes and our underwear.
	And once they start weaponizing breast transplants and all the rest of it, I think there's even restrictions now on gel-filled bras and things like that that you can't get bored planes with.
	We're going to be doing that till the end of the time.
	Meanwhile, meanwhile, the airport gives a security clearance to a guy who goes off to fight for ISIS.
	ISIS terrorist.
	This is the big state security theater.
	You're subject to it.
	You have to shuffle shoeless.
	You have to get to the airport four hours beforehand to stand in line to get through the stupid security theater.
	But Abdurrahman Mohammed, brave, plucky ISIS fighter, died fighting for the land he loves, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
	He had a security clearance at Minneapolis airport.
	1-800-282-2882, there is another airplane story in the news as we head towards September 11th anniversary, and we'll get to that a little later on today's show.
	Mark Stein in Farash, lots more to come.
	Mark Stein in Farash discussing Abdurrahman Mohamed, who had died fighting for ISIS, yet had security clearance for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
	This is coming up to the 13th anniversary of 9-11.
	And we had, I was listening to someone on the radio yesterday talk about this jailbreak somewhere or other that happened a couple of days ago, in which a bunch of teenagers, I think it was 33 teenagers, bust out of some detention facility somewhere.
	Impressive teenagers.
	Some of them had at least three felonies apiece, which is kind of tough to get by the time you're 14 or whatever.
	So they bust out of this place.
	And a guy explaining how this happened said it was a failure of both.
	There was like a mechanical failure, like a window panel was loose or something.
	But there was also human failure.
	That even though these guards are meant to go by and check everything every so often, in fact, they're just doing cursory checks.
	They're not doing a lot of the checks.
	You've got a system of checks in place, but nobody's actually seriously doing all the checks.
	And that's true not just at some rinky-dink little nothing teenage detention facility, but that is also true of the big security state in which this guy, 13 years after 9-11, we federalized, we federalized airport security.
	We've required people to undergo background checks and all the rest of it.
	And yet, this guy who's fighting for ISIS, that's to say, he's not just fighting for Al-Qaeda because Al-Qaeda are like, this isn't your father's jihad anymore.
	Those wimps at Al-Qaeda don't have the guts to do beheadings on the scale that the ISIS guys do.
	This is the real deal.
	And yet he manages to get security clearance at St. Paul, Minneapolis-St. Paul's airport.
	By the way, where I will be landing next month sometime, I'm giving a speech at Orchestra Hall, an evening with Mark Stein at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis for the Center of the American Experiment, which is October 9th, October 9th.
	And so I'll actually be flying into Minneapolis Airport.
	Always enjoy flying into Minneapolis airport because I get to use the Larry Craig wide stance men's room, assuming that Abdulrahman Mohammed has kept that nice and clean and pristine condition because I gather he was one of the cleaners at the airport.
	But I think he cleaned planes.
	I don't know whether he got to clean the Larry Craig wide stance men's room.
	But so I take a personal interest in security issues of Minneapolis airport because I'll be landing there on the 9th prior to this event in downtown Minneapolis.
	The other big plane story today, we'll be talking to Bill Goertz from the Washington Free Beacon in the next hour.
	Bill Goertz has been reporting that a dozen commercial jetliners have fallen into the hands of the Islamic militias who've basically taken control of the Libyan state.
	Tripoli Airport fell about a week and a half ago.
	And Tripoli Airport, by the way, everyone thinks that's a joke, but I was there a few years ago and thought it compared rather favorably to, say, Logan Airport in Boston.
	Say what you like about Colonel Gaddafi.
	He may be an insane, pockmarked, transvestite lunatic, but he knew how to run a reasonably decent airport.
	And Tripoli Airport has been blown to smithereens.
	It's been smashed.
	It's been blown apart.
	It looks like a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri.
	And among the things that were not blown up and not smashed are 12 commercial jetliners, which these jihadist militias have managed to spirit away somewhere.
	And Bill has written a fascinating story in the Washington Free Beacon about the possible uses that these jetliners might be put to as the anniversary of 9-11 approaches.
	12 commercial airliners that have managed to go missing in Tripoli.
	By the way, Libya has imploded.
	It was an oil-rich state.
	It is an oil-rich state.
	So it's not like Afghanistan.
	It's not a worthless piece of junk.
	Again, like Iraq, it's a state worth getting hold of.
	And it's fallen into two years ago when Benghazi, when the American diplomatic facility in Benghazi was sacked and Ambassador Stevens was killed and all the rest of it, it at least made the news.
	The total now, what has happened in Benghazi, has spread to Tripoli.
	This was Obama's war.
	This was Obama's war.
	This has nothing to do with Bush.
	Bush got on fine with Gaddafi after Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program.
	This was Obama's war, and Obama has lost it.
	And it doesn't make the papers.
	It's a failed state now.
	It's a failed state in which jihadists are running around seizing commercial airliners.
	And because it's inconvenient to the mainstream media, if Bush had done this, it would be on the front page of every newspaper.
	But Obama, zip.
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	Just to go back to this security state theater, the whole thing is, and sometimes when I mention this, people call when grannies are having to remove prosthetic limbs or somebody who's dying in six months and is in an adult diaper is humiliated in public by the TSA Security Theatre.
	They always say, well, if they're doing it to the little 89-year-old granny, that just goes to show how serious are.
	There are people who think like this.
	There are people who think that if they're tormenting and terrorizing some three-year-old kid or a non-agenarian nun, that somehow that shows how rigorous the system is.
	It's nonsense.
	This country has limited resources, and every 10 minutes it's spending on your granny is 10 minutes it's not spending on Abdulrahman Mohamed, the ISIS guy who got to clean the planes before takeoff at Minneapolis airport.
	And again, this ought to be a story.
	This ought to be a story because I cringe.
	Do you know?
	One reason and I say this with some circumspection as a foreigner, but for example, I love flying around Australia.
	It's so eminently civilized.
	It's compared to what the situation at American airports is.
	I flew between the charming French colonies of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon not so long ago.
	It's the only remaining bit left of French North America.
	Everything else they lost to the English-speaking world.
	But Saint-Pierre and Miquelon are still there.
	And I flew from Miquelon to Saint-Pierre.
	And again, compared to the big security theater down here, it was charming and it was enjoyable.
	And there is something degrading in seeing people shuffling meekly and obediently, barefoot, through these lines.
	And there is something shameful about the TSA procedures by which they can do anything.
	They can exclude you from the flight if you make a disrespectful comment to the TSA Obergropenführer.
	If you say the wrong thing to him, if you look at him the wrong way.
	At one point, they were considering regulations to make it an offense to roll your eyes in the presence of the TSA Ober Gropenführer, and they would not let you on the plane.
	And what are they doing when they do this?
	Because you've got to be nuts to think this stuff is going to stay confined to the airport.
	That one day, 10 years, 20 years down the line, it won't be at the train station and the bus station and the interstate ramps and one day on Main Street too.
	They're training freeborn peoples to behave like a compliant herd, just obeying the bureaucratic dictators.
	And the only conceivable justification for it is that, as those people say, if they're doing it to you, they must be doing it to everybody else too.
	And what we see increasingly is that, in fact, they're doing it to you and they're not doing it to the bad guys, which is how Abdulrahman Mohammed winds up cleaning the planes before takeoff at Minneapolis airport.
	It is why there are 6,000 people with expired visas in this country right now, right now.
	6,000 people with expired visas that the Department of Homeland Security doesn't know where they are.
	No idea where they are.
	6,000 people, 19 people, 19 people, all admitted to this country legally, pulled off 9-11.
	There are 6,000 people with expired visas.
	No one knows who they are.
	No one at the Department of Homeland Security.
	Again, it's the security theater thing.
	A reputable businessman from Frankfurt flying to business for business a couple of days in New York.
	Let's say a guy after the Burger King Tim Hortons reverse takeover thing.
	And a guy is flying from Tim Hortons in Toronto down to New York to inspect his corporate subsidiary at Burger King.
	And he will have to have his eyeballs photographed.
	There's a bazillion photographs in some government computer of my eyeballs.
	Every time you fly from Bermuda to New York, they photograph my eyeballs, the Department of Homeland Security.
	The Department of Homeland Security, the country that has no strategy on ISIS, has a comprehensive strategy on my eyeballs.
	It can't get enough of them.
	But at the same time, the 6,000 people with expired visas running around here, nobody knows what happened.
	ICE, ICE, has released 169 illegal aliens convicted of, quote, homicide-related unquote crimes.
	Quote, homicide-related crimes, right?
	169 people who've been convicted of homicide-related, related in the sense that they committed the homicide.
	They have been convicted of these homicide-related crimes, and yet they have been released.
	They've been released from ICE, the immigration and customs enforcement wing, where they're supposed to go until they have their deportation hearings.
	And no one, again, no one knows where they are.
	169 illegal aliens who've been convicted of crimes involving dead Americans, involving corpses of legal Americans.
	169 illegal aliens have been released from ICE, and again, no one knows where they are.
	Now, that's the world in which ISIS has to operate.
	ISIS don't have to be geniuses.
	They just have to be able to get a guy to Mexico so he can get across the southern border.
	They just have to be able to get a guy to Minneapolis with plausible enough paperwork, which a lot of these sanctuary states and cities will be happy to provide him with.
	And he just has to be plausible enough to get a job with Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport.
	And that's why all the sentimental blather about immigration.
	This ISIS thing is a big thing for every Western nation.
	But I'll tell you something, the chances of these ISIS guys with American passports coming back here and being able to blow something up is a lot greater than the chances of being able to get to Australia and blow up something in Australia, because Australia has a border and Australia has an immigration policy.
	And this country, as a matter of narcissistic, multicultural moral preening, thinks that borders are racist and immigration controls are racist.
	And having any kind of legal status or visas or work permits is racist.
	And that's why that's the bigger pool in which they swim.
	If you've got 6,000 people with expired visas, if you've got 169 people convicted, illegal aliens convicted of crimes involving dead Americans, and ICE release them back into the community, back into the community.
	Say, go back among all those Americans.
	It's such a rich pool there.
	You might be able to kill some more before we hold your deportation hearing.
	And that's, and maybe one of them will get lucky and get the same job this guy did at Minneapolis Airport.
	That's the pool in which these guys have to swim in.
	And they don't have to be geniuses to make something of that.
	That's why the immigration issue, the immigration issue is exactly the same as the ISIS issue.
	Because if you don't have borders, there are no foreigners.
	There is no rest of the world.
	The rest of the world is right here.
	The rest of the world is clean in your plane at Minneapolis Airport.
	The rest of the world is being released from the ICE deportation facility and released back into your community.
	The rest of the world is here.
	There is no frontier between the so-called United States.
	I love all this stuff on the isolationist right.
	They talk a good talk and all the rest of it.
	But what, you know, this idea of a fortress America.
	What fortress?
	You don't have a fortress America when your back door is wide open for the entire length of the Rio Grande.
	Where's the fortress?
	Where's the fortress?
	And you see it in the expired visas, the security theater, the released illegal aliens.
	They don't have to be geniuses.
	You don't have to be the greatest genius in the world not to see that advantage and not to take that advantage of it.
	Mark Stein in Farush, we'll take your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in Farush on America's number one radio show.
	Let's go to Will in Sacramento, California.
	Will, great to have you with us on the show today.
	Good morning, Mark.
	How are you doing?
	I'm doing good.
	How are you?
	I'm doing okay.
	Just I was telling your screener, I'm a commercial airline pilot for a major airline here in California.
	And had a story relayed to me by a captain I flew with not too long ago.
	The story occurred probably a few years after 9-11.
	But a female pilot, she was flying with a gentleman who had come from Iran and made her introductions when she first met the guy.
	The normal pleasantries were exchanged, and she could tell there was kind of a disdain.
	He didn't really look at her in the eye and just kind of kept to himself, which is kind of unusual for people who had just needed her going to spend the next three or four days together.
	After a while, she had finally gotten him to open up.
	I'm not sure what she had said if she maybe told him she wore burgers at home.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, she got him to open up.
	And during the course of his experiences, he told her that he was from Iran.
	When he was a youth in Iran, as a teenager, him and his friend, during one of the conflicts that was going on there, for fun, would go out and take pot shots at civilians.
	They would find arms and just go take pot shots at the planets.
	Obviously, this caused her a lot of dismay, and she, you know, kept them going on and got a lot of stuff.
	Found out that the wife was on an expired visa from the Palestinian area.
	And he had expressed a lot of disdain for America and our ways and our culture and our customs.
	And she said, you know, why don't you go back there, et cetera, et cetera.
	Well, after the trip had ended, it caused her great alarm about this guy.
	And she had phoned back to the security part of the company that we fly for.
	And she explained all this stuff and said, you know, I think this guy's a risk.
	And they said, well, he had passed all the background checks after 9-11.
	And so that's kind of the insanity we're living with here.
	Right, right.
	And that's conscious as well, Will, because this gets back to a lot of the discussions that go on about this.
	Are you trying to actually stop people who are actively plotting something, or are you waging war on an ideology and helping to root out that ideology?
	And we've never been clear about that.
	So, this guy, for example, he might just be a blowhard.
	He might just be a guy who dislikes America, has a wife who's in the country illegally, but is otherwise no particular threat to anyone.
	Or he might be like Major Hassan, who was saying who was making the same kind of remarks before he eventually opened up open fire down at Fort Hood.
	And that's the point.
	The fascinating thing about Major Hassan is that he actually gave a PowerPoint presentation to a bunch of guys before he did what he did, which most jihadists don't.
	He wasn't shy about it.
	He put Soldier of Allah on his business card, and nobody wanted to question it because they might be sent off for diversity training and sensitivity training, like the fella at the British Home Office, the story we mentioned yesterday.
	And that's the issue here: that the background checks are designed not to stop people like that.
	The background checks at the airports are designed, in fact, to say to this pilot, you can hold all these views and all the rest of it, and that's no obstacle to getting access to secure areas at an American airport.
	Well, that's a fascinating story, and I thank you for it because it confirms what many of us suspect.
	You hear about stories like Will's from time to time in the intervening years, that we've got the pretense of a crackdown.
	We've got the pretense of a system.
	We had a system on September 11th, 2001, by the way.
	We had a 1970s terrorist hijack procedures, and they'd been in place since the 1970s.
	And you get on the plane, and something funny happens, and you assume that it's some guy who wants you to fly to Havana or who wants you to fly to Tripoli, and you were going to go to San Francisco or you were going to go to San Diego or whatever.
	And the 1970s hijack procedures say you do this, this, this, this, and this.
	And so they followed all the 1970s hijack procedures and everybody died.
	And now they put in, after 9-11, they put in new procedures, but again, they're exactly the same.
	All the people who need to slip past those procedures can get through.
	And meantime, the rest of us think, well, the government's taking care of it because everything is slower, longer, more grotty, more miserable, more depressing.
	I mean, I think one reason these recline wars are going on is because plane travel is so hellish now that in fact it's the only you've got to shuffle through like this like like like prisoners shuffling on a chain gang through the through the security thing you're treated miserably you're not treated like a person buying a commercial product engaging in a commercial transaction and hoping Hoping to receive customer service.
	You're basically told, do this.
	Homeland Security say you do this, and the FAA say you do that.
	And if you don't do everything you're told, we'll ruin your life.
	And one reason now why we're having these recline wars all over the map is because fighting over, fighting over the person who wants to sleep with their head on the tray and the person who wants to recline the seat and do their knitting, that's the last bit of individuality.
	The American airline experience is big government on steroids.
	It's what they would implement on the ground if they could.
	Where you just do as you're told.
	And if you do as you're told, then they won't punish you and they won't drag you off the plane and they won't take you into the hands of Homeland Security.
	And at the same time, they're letting this guy from ISIS clean the planes before you go through all the security procedure and then they let the ISIS terrorist guy clean the plane before it takes off.
	That's great.
	Mark's time for us.
	More ahead.
	It's all about rights, folks.
	That's what it's about.
	It's all about rights.
	A 16-year-old in South Carolina has sued the Department of Motor Vehicles because the agency won't allow him to have makeup in his driver's license photo.
	Chase Culpeper, 16 years old, he likes to go around in makeup.
	He likes to drive wearing women's clothing and makeup.
	But the DMV office in Anderson, about 100 miles northwest of Columbia, South Carolina, told him that he has to take off his makeup when he poses for his driver's license photograph.
	And Chase Culpepper, 16-year-old boy, should have the right to wear makeup in their driver's license.

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