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Sept. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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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 anchor man sitting in.
Mark Stein, live from uh Ice Station E. I.B. in far northern New Hampshire.
Don't worry.
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He uh he does the whole show uh in full recline.
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Don't worry, Eric Erickson.
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We have a strategy, by the way.
We have a strategy.
Uh hallelujah.
Blessed be the strategists.
Yesterday we did not have a strategy on ISIS.
Uh we had a strategy.
The United States government had a strategy on duck genitalia, uh, as we discussed.
They've been uh 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 a uh an illustration of duck genitalia uh showing that the uh female duck's genital parts run well, I'm trying to remember how this was now.
Clockwise, that's right.
Uh the female duck has a clockwise corkscrew, while the male duck has a penis that is a counterclockwise corkscrew.
This is this is what the study has determined.
And it prompted, as you may recall, uh, in the uh 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 which is very true.
But Obama is in uh Estonia now.
Uh he hits all the glamour spots, he's in Estonia today, Wales tomorrow.
Wallafe.
Uh and he uh has announced that in fact the uh that the government does have a strategy to deal with ISIS.
And he said uh that he was going to destroy and degrade ISIS.
And then he got Chit Chatting again, uh and a couple of minutes later he started to 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.
Uh so in the first part of his little press conference, he was destroying and degrading ISIS, uh, and a couple of minutes later he was saying we could manage it as long once we'd organized the Middle East.
And um uh Elizabeth Hasselbeck on Fox News uh said that he was uh engaged in a war of words with himself.
And I don't think that's true, actually.
Uh 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, uh this is bad.
They're decapitating Americans all over the internet now.
Uh 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 uh outside uh the White House and outside some big building in Chicago, whatever it was, uh promising in effect that ISIS is gonna come to the United States.
ISIS is already there, in fact, as they've as they say in their videos, where they're in your states, in your cities, on your streets, uh and they're already waving that flag around, and one day they're gonna run that flag up the White House and it's gonna be flying over the White House.
That's their that's their promise.
And there's got no well no, it's uh it's a real flag.
It's not a hash hashtag.
Uh it's uh the the ha we we need a bigger hashtag for that, by the way, because it's not uh the the gen Gen Saki uh at uh the P is silent, much like American foreign policy in general.
Gen Saki uh uh posed with that hashtag saying we stand with Ukraine and uh how that worked out for the Ukrainians, we're just seeing.
And uh uh and Obama uh said uh today, he said we're shoulder he said we stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.
They're those shoulders are like uh five thousand miles apart, and that's as close as his shoulder is gonna get to their their guy's uh shoulder.
Uh but he he's that but he's not at war he there's no war of words with himself.
He he ran and he was elected to be the anti-Bush.
Uh that's that was the reason people people were sick of it after after eight years of the war presidency of jihad, of terrorism, of all the people said he ran on a specific pledge, you know, America is coming home, uh, 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.
Uh 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 twelve-year-olds on his writing staff said, You gotta sound butch.
When they ask you something about this guy who had his head ch uh chopped off, you gotta sound you gotta 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 uh whatever it was now, uh ten years ago.
Uh he'd been going around saying, Oh, we uh 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 uh 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 twelve-year-olds on the writing staff, wrote him some butch rhetoric.
So he said, our our strategy is to destroy and degrade ISIS.
And then he'd he'd 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 uh 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 to this uh this uh NATO summit in Wales tomorrow, uh there's what are what is it now?
Twenty-eight countries in uh in NATO.
Uh he doesn't know these guys.
He's got no relationships with these guys uh in the way that is normal for world leaders.
They don't get on with everybody.
Bush didn't get on with uh Jean Christian in Canada, but he got on very well with Tony Blair.
He got on very well with uh John Howard down in Australia.
He got on well with Angola Merkel in in uh Germany.
He didn't get on with Shirak, but he got on with uh Sarkozy.
Sarkozy uh couldn't get couldn't get uh couldn't get hold of uh Obama.
Obama doesn't want to put in the tie, he's actually got no interest.
He's like a lot of these as what we were saying yesterday, multiculturalism absolves you of having any interest in other cultures.
And Obama doesn't actually like uh like foreigners terribly much.
Even when he goes to uh 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, uh and uh 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 uh to modify Trotsky's old line, Obama may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in him.
Uh and the line, and when you again 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, doesn't have the authority to do that, but he's torn up US immigration law and dissolved the southern border.
Uh there's no actual no longer any distinction between home and abroad, between domestic and foreign, between the world and main streets.
And a very good example of that uh courtesy of uh the uh the the local uh TV station out of uh Minneapolis, KMS P is this fellow who was killed fighting for ISIS.
He's an ISIS guy, Abdul Rahman 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 got he's left behind nine children.
That's uh that's uh I wrote a whole book on uh demography, by the way.
And uh I appreciate uh the the way these guys are holding up uh their end of the birth rate.
But when 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 thirty-nine, uh that's uh that's a that that goes to show you how uh eventually, as I said, the world comes to you.
This guy, Abdul Rahman Mohammed, do you know what he did back in Minneapolis before he joined before he joined ISIS and went off to chop heads off people all over Syria and Iraq.
This you know, he didn't have a he didn't have a show.
He had a he had he worked at Minneapolis International Airport.
Uh 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 uh uh with one of these gate delays, uh, and eventually you all crowd onto the plane and the cle sometimes you see them.
The cleaners haven't finished finished cleaning the planes.
So they're going in there, sticking stuff on the planes, taking stuff off, uh 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 uh able to put stuff on the plane before takeoff.
And he's a member of ISIS.
He's a soldier of ISIS.
And well, uh he must be doing something.
He must be doing something right.
He must have but uh uh miss mister Mr. Surley makes a uh makes a good point though.
He's a pref he's a preferred he's a member of a preferred democrat constituency.
And basically, uh the idea that anyone does background checks and all these people.
We have all of us, the rest of us.
The war on terror, uh we we're the ones we go to the airport, we take our shoes off, we shuffle through there, we get so these lunatics barking the same old garbage at us.
You can't have more than three fluid ounces of uh uh uh of uh this or that.
If you're taking a pie back home for your big family Thanksgiving in a couple of months' time, uh 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 uh 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 uh breast transplants and all the rest of it, I d I think the y there's even restrictions now on gel-filled bras and things like that that you can't get bored planes with.
We're gonna be doing that till the end of the time.
Meanwhile, meanwhile, the airport gives a security clearance to a guy uh 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.
Uh but uh m Abdul Rahman Mohammed, brave plucky ISIS fighter, died fighting for the land he loves, the uh Islamic state of Iraq and Syria.
He had a security clearance at Minneapolis Airport.
Uh one eight hundred-two eight two two eight eight two, there is another airplane story in the news as we head towards September eleventh's anniversary, and we'll get to that a little later on today's show.
Mark Stein in Farush, lots more to come.
Mark Stein uh in Farush uh discussing uh Abdul Rahman Mohammed, uh who had uh died fighting for ISIS yet had security clearance uh for the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport.
This is uh coming up to the thirteenth anniversary of nine eleven.
And uh we we we had I was I was listening to someone uh on the radio yesterday talk about this jailbreak uh somewhere or other that happened a couple of days ago in which a uh a bunch of teenagers, I think it was thirty-three teenagers bust out of uh some uh detention facility somewhere.
Um impressive uh teenagers, some of them had at least three felonies apiece, which is which is kind of tough to get by the time you're uh fourteen or whatever.
So they bust out of this place, and a guy explaining how this happened uh 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.
Uh you've got a system of checks in place, but nobody's actually uh seriously doing all the checks.
Uh and that's true not just at some rinky dink little nothing teenage detention facility, uh, but that is also true of the big security state uh in which in which this guy was thirteen years after nine eleven, we federalized,
we federalized uh airport security, uh we've acquired people to undergo background checks and all the rest of it, and yet this guy who's fighting for ISIS uh that's to say he's not just fighting for Al Qaeda, because Al Qaeda are like that was your d 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 this is the real deal.
And uh and yet he manages to get security clearance at St. Paul, uh uh Minneapolis St. Paul's airport.
By the way, where I will be landing uh next month uh sometime.
I'm uh I'm uh I'm I'm giving a speech at uh Orchestra Hall an evening with Mark Stein at Orchestra Hall in uh in Minneapolis for the uh Center of the American experiment, uh, which is uh uh October 9th, October 9th.
And uh so I'll actually be flying into Minneapolis airport.
I always enjoy flying into Minneapolis Airport because I get to use the Larry Craig wide stance uh men's room, uh, assuming that Abdul Rahman uh Mohammed uh in has uh kept that nice and clean in pristine condition, because I gather he was uh one of the cleaners at the airport.
But I I think he cleaned planes.
I don't know whether he got to clean uh the Larry Craig wide stance uh men's room.
Uh but uh so I'm I I take a personal interest in uh security issues of Minneapolis Airport because I'll be landing there on uh on the ninth uh uh prior to this event uh in downtown Minneapolis.
The other big plane story uh today, we'll be talking to Bill Gertz uh from the Washington Free Beacon in the next hour.
Uh Bill Gertz has been reporting uh that a dozen commercial jetliners uh have fallen into the hands of the Islamic militias who basically taken control of the Libyan state.
Tripoli Airport uh fell about uh a week and a half ago.
And uh Tripoli Airport, by the way, everyone thinks that's a joke.
But uh I was there a few years ago and thought it compared rather favorably to, say, uh Logan Airport in Boston.
Uh say what you like about uh uh Colonel Gaddafi, he may be an insane uh pockmarked transvestite lunatic, uh, but he knew how to run a reasonably decent uh 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.
Uh and among the things that were not blown up and not smashed are twelve commercial jet liners, uh, which uh these jihadist militias have managed to spirit away somewhere.
And Bill has written a fascinating story in the Washington Free Beacon uh about uh the possible uses that these jet liners might be put to as the anniversary of nine eleven approaches.
Twelve commercial airliners uh 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.
Uh again, like Iraq, it's a state worth getting hold of.
Uh and it's fallen into two years ago when Benghazi, when the um uh uh American diplomatic facility in Benghazi was sacked and Ambassador Stevens was killed and all the rest of it, uh it at least made the news.
The total now what has happened in Benghazi is 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 uh uh 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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Uh just to go back to the this this security state theater, uh the whole thing is uh well and sometimes when I mention this, people c call when when grannies are having to remove prosthetic limbs uh uh or or uh somebody who's dying uh six months and is in an adult diaper is humiliated in public uh by the TSA security theater,
they always say, well, if they're doing it to the little eighty-nine-year-old granny, that just goes to show how serious are there are people who think like this.
They're people who think that if they're if they're tormenting and terrorizing some three-year-old kid or a a non-ogenarian nun, uh that somehow that shows how rigorous the system is.
It's nonsense.
This country is limited resources, and every uh ten minutes it's spending on your granny is ten minutes it's not spending on Abdul Rahman Mohammed, the ISIS guy who got to clean the planes before takeoff and Minneapolis Airport.
And again, this ought to be a story.
This ought to be a story because I cringe.
Do you know I one reason uh I and I say this uh uh uh with some circumspection as a foreigner, but for example, I love flying around Australia.
It's so eminently civilized.
Uh it's uh compared to uh to what the situation at American airports is.
I I was uh I flew between the charming French colonies of Saint Pierre and Miquelon uh not so long ago.
Uh it's the only remaining bit left of French North America.
Everything else they lost uh to the uh English speaking world.
But Saint Pierre and Miquelon uh are still there, and I flew from Miquelon to Saint Pierre, and uh again, compared to the big security theater uh down here, it was charming and it was enjoyable.
Uh and there is something degrading in seeing people shuffling meekly and obediently barefoot uh through these lines.
Uh and there is something shameful about the TSA procedures by which they can do any they can exclude you from the flight if uh you are uh if you make a disrespectful comment to the TSA Ober Gropen Fuhrer.
Uh if you if you say the wrong thing to him, if you look at him the wrong way, uh at one point they w they were considering regulations to make it an offense to roll your eyes in the presence of the TSA Obergroppenfuhrer, uh and they would not let you on the plane.
Uh and what are they doing when they do this?
Because you've got to be nuts to think this stuff is gonna stay confined to the airport.
The one day, ten years, twenty 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 two.
They're training they're training freeborn peoples to behave like a compliant herd, just obeying the bureaucratic dictates.
And the only conceivable justification for it is that as those people say uh say, if they're doing it to you, they must be doing it to everybody else too.
And what 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 Abdul Rahman Mohammed winds up cleaning uh the planes before takeoff at Minneapolis Airport.
It is why there are six thousand people with expired visas in this country right now, right now, six thousand people with expired visas, but the Department of Homeland Security uh doesn't know where they are, no idea where they are.
Six thousand people, nineteen people, nineteen people, all admitted to this country legally, uh pulled off nine eleven.
There are there are six thousand 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.
Uh a reputable businessman from Frankfurt flying to business for business a couple of days in New York.
Let it let's say a guy after the burger king Tim Hortons reverse takeover thing, and a guy is flying from from Tim Hortons in Toronto down to New York uh to have to inspect his uh his his uh corporate subsidiary at Burger King.
And he will have to have his eyeballs photographed.
Uh uh there's there's there's a bazillion photographs in some government computer of my eyeballs.
Every time uh 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.
Uh but but uh so but but at the same time the six thousand people with expired visas running around here, nobody knows what happened.
ICE, ICE uh has released uh one hundred and sixty-nine illegal aliens convicted of quote homicide related unquote crimes, quote homicide related crimes, right?
A hundred and sixty-nine people who've been convicted of homicide related, uh related in the sense that they committed the homicide, uh they have uh been convicted of these homicide related crimes uh and yet they have been released.
They've been they've been released from uh uh ICE, the immigration and customs enforcement wing, uh where they're supposed to go until they're they have their deportation hearings.
Uh and uh no one again, no one knows where they are.
A hundred and sixty-nine illegal aliens who've been convicted of crimes involving dead Americans, involving corpses of legal Americans, uh hundred and sixty-nine illegal aliens have been released from ICE, and again no one knows where they are.
Now, in in that's the world in which 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 able will be happy to provide him with, and he just has to be plausible enough to get a job with Minneapolis St. Paul Airport.
Uh and that's why the all the sentimental blather about immigration.
Uh the this ISIS thing is a big thing for uh 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 is a matter of narcissistic multicultural moral preening thinks that borders are racists and immigration controls are racist and uh and having uh any kind of legal status or visas or work permits is racist.
Uh and that's why uh that's the the bigger pool in which they swim.
If you've got six thousand people with expired visas, if you've got a hundred and sixty-nine uh people convicted, illegal aliens convicted uh of of of crimes involving dead Americans, and ICE release them back into the community, back into the community.
Say go back among all those uh 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.
Uh and that's uh uh and maybe one of them will get lucky uh and and get the same job this guy did at Minneapolis Airport.
That's the pool in which these guys have to swim in.
Uh and they don't have to be geniuses uh 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, uh there is no 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 cleaning your plane at Minneapolis Airport.
The rest of the world is being released uh from the ICE uh deportation facil uh facility uh and released back into your community.
The rest of the world is here.
There is no frontier uh between the so-called United States.
I love all this stuff on on the on the isolationist right.
They talk a good talk and all the rest of it.
But what you know, the uh this idea of a fortress America.
What fortress?
You don't have a fortress America uh when your back door is wide open for the entire length of the Rio Grande.
Where's the fortress?
Where's the fortress?
Uh and you see it in the uh expired visas, the security theater, the released illegal aliens.
Uh 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 call straight ahead.
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Let's go to Will in Sacramento, California.
Will, uh, great to have you with us on the show today.
Good morning, Mark.
How are you doing?
I'm I'm doing good.
How are you?
I'm doing okay.
Just I was telling your screen or I I'm a commercial airline pilot for a major airline uh here in California.
And uh had a story relayed to me by a captain I flew with not too long ago.
Uh the story occurred probably a few years after 911.
But uh female pilot uh she was flying with a uh gentleman who lived come from Iran and uh made her introductions when she first met the guy.
The normal pleasantries were exchanged, and she could tell there was kind of a disdain.
Uh 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 just need who are gonna spend the next three or four days together.
After a while, she had uh finally gotten them to open up.
I'm not sure what she had said, if she maybe told them she won't workers at home, I don't know.
But anyway, she got them to open up and during the course of the uh his uh uh experiences, he told her that he was from Iran when he was a youth in Iran, uh, as a teenager, him and his friend uh during one of the conflicts that was going on there for fun, would go out and take potshots at civilians.
They would find arms and just go take pot shots and players.
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 uh the Palestinian area, and uh he had expressed a lot of disdain for America and our ways and our culture and our customs, and uh she said, you know, why don't you go back there, et cetera, et cetera.
Well, after the trip had ended, you know, it caused her great alarm about this guy, and she had fallen back to the uh the security part of the company uh that we fly for, and uh she explained all this stuff and and said, you know, I think this guy's a risk.
And they said, Well, you pass all the uh background checks after 9-11.
And so that's kind of the insanity we're living with here.
Right, right.
And and that's that's conscious as well, Will, because uh th this gets back to this gets back to a lot of the the discussions uh that go on about this.
Uh uh are you are you trying to actually uh stop people who are actively plotting something, or are you waging war on an ideology and helping to root out uh that ideology?
And and we've never been clear about that.
So you can ha so this guy, for example, he might just be a blowheart.
He might just be a guy who uh dislikes America, has uh has a wife who's in the country illegally uh 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 uh before he eventually uh opened up uh open fire down at Fort Hood.
And and that's the point.
The fascinating thing about Major Hassan is uh that he actually gave a PowerPoint presentation to a bunch of guys uh before he did what he did.
No, which most of most jihadists don't.
Uh he he wasn't shy about it.
He put Soldier of Allah on his business card, and nobody wanted to question it uh because uh it they might be sent off for diversity training uh and sensitivity training, like the fella at the British Home Office, uh, the story we mentioned yesterday.
And this that's that's actually that's the issue here, that the the uh the the background checks are designed not to stop people like that.
Uh the background checks at at the airports are designed, in fact, to say to this pilot, you can you can hold all these views and all the rest of it, uh but and that's no obstacle to getting access to secure areas at an American airport.
Well, that's that's a fascinating uh that's a fascinating story, and I and I thank you for it because it it confirms what many of us uh suspect.
Every you hear about uh stories like Will's uh from time from time to time in the in intervening years that we have we've got the pretense of a crackdown.
We've got the pretense of a system.
We had a system on September eleventh, two thousand and one, by the way.
We had a nineteen seventies terrorist uh hijack procedures, and they'd been in place since uh since the nineteen seventies, and you get in 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 gonna go uh to uh San Francisco or you are gonna go to San Diego or whatever.
And the nineteen seventies 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 911, they put in new procedures, but again, uh they're exactly the same.
Uh all the people who need to to slip past those procedures can get through.
Uh 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 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 you've got to shuffle through like this uh like like prisoners uh shuffling on a chain gang uh through the uh through the security thing.
Uh you're treated miserably, you're not treated like a person buying a commercial product, engaging in a commercial transaction and hoping to receive c customer service.
You're basically told, do this.
Uh homeland security say you do this, and the FAA say you do that, and if you don't do everything you're told uh w we'll we'll uh we'll ruin your life.
And one reason now where we're having these recline wars all over the map is because fighting over fighting over the the person who wants to sleep on 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.
American the American airline experience is big government on steroids.
It's what they would implement on the ground if they could.
Uh where you're you just do as you're told.
And if you do as you're told, uh then they won't uh punish you and they won't drag you off the plane and they won't take you into the hands of homeland security.
And uh and and and uh and and at the same time uh they're letting this guy uh from ISIS clean the planes before you 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 uh it's all about rights, folks.
That's what it's about.
It's all about it's all about rights.
A sixteen-year-old in South Carolina has sued the uh Department of Motor Vehicles uh because the agency won't allow him to have uh makeup in his driver's license photo.
Uh Chase Culpepper, 16 years old, he likes to go around in makeup.
He likes to drive uh wearing women's clothing and makeup.
Uh but the DMV office in Anderson, about a hundred miles northwest of Columbia, uh South Carolina, told him that he has to take off his makeup when he poses for his driver's license photograph.
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