Here's an important update on the Flying Imam/CAIR attempt to make our airports safe for jihad terrorists.
By Audrey Hudson in the Washington Times, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Key Republicans are lobbying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to protect legislation that prohibits airline passengers from being sued if they report suspicious behavior that foreshadows a terrorist attack.Republican leaders used a procedural motion to insert that provision into a transportation-safety bill last month, but House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, has threatened to bar from becoming law all language entered into bills under such "motions to recommit."
"We cannot afford to wait any longer to protect individuals who seek to do the right thing by speaking up to prevent a terrorist attack," more than a dozen Republicans wrote to Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, today in a letter obtained in advance by The Washington Times.
The legislation responds to a lawsuit filed by six Muslim imams after they were removed from a Nov. 20 U.S. Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix for suspicious behavior. The lawsuit was filed on March 12 and also named as defendants any yet-unknown "John Doe" passengers who reported the imams' behavior.
"This represents a startling precedent, one that could freeze the very behavior law enforcement has encouraged," the letter said.
Does it have to foreshadow a terrorist attack?
I hope not.
Surely if I have "reasonable suspicion" that a terrorist act is about to happen - then NOT to speak is nothing more than complicity in a terrorist act?
What happens when somebody fails to speak out thorugh fear of the "John Doe" law and a plane goes down?
Will the relatives of the victims sue the "Jon Doe" for not speaking out?
Will "John Doe" be charged with withholding information and conspiracy to perform a terrorist act?
Unless something is done about this it will be "damned if you speak out" and "damned if you don't speak out" ...
President Pelosi has been talking to the Islamists not the John Does....
...I suspect she would rather prosecute the John Does instead of protecting them...
Since when is Ms. Pelosi’s allegiance to America in the first place? I’m definitely not optimistic as long as this legislation is in her deceitful hands!
Either way this is good. If the Dems pull their collective heads out their asses for a second, they will not try to overturn Pete King's passed recommitting of the bill to protect John Doe. If they do not support it, they will undoubtably suffer a major self-inflicted wound.
No matter what the MSM tries to tell the US citizens what we believe, once the curtain in the voting booth is closed, and political correctness is temporarily blind-folded, people vote the way they want, and with the exception of American Muslims, who could possibly fight against the protection from litigation clause in this bill?
If Speaker Pelosi loves this country, the country that has given her the opportunity to speak freely about her beliefs and opinions,and to rise to a position where her voice can be heard throughout her country, she'll vote to protect those who exercise their free speech to protect their fellow Americans from harm.
If Speaker Pelosi loves her children and her grandchildren, and the promise of future generations to be born in her family, she will vote to protect them by protecting those who exercise free speech to preserve life.
If Speaker Pelosi loves truth, loves what is noble and good, not what is politically correct nor politically beneficial, she will vote to protect free speech which sides with truth, nobility and goodness in opposition to hate, intimidation and the evil designs of men bent on destroying this country.
It is her choice, which will she choose?
Has anyone seen the Democrats' justification for opposing this law? I suppose something about protecting the civil liberties of persons who would otherwise be the target of purposefully harassing finger-pointing. Is that right?
You can't have jihad without muslims.
No muslims, no jihad.
The republicans wouldn't have reacted with such lightening speed if they still controlled things. They're just as bad as the dems.
"Key Republicans are lobbying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi"
Evidence yet again that the Republican party contains, at least incrementally, more rationality than the Democratic party.
Another piece recently was the Republican Texas Senator who walked out of the prayer session by the Muslim cleric who had been invited by Texas Democrats.
Many more such pieces over the last few years can be adduced.
While Bingo's cynicism above about the Republicans is likely correct, it ignores the fact that politics operates normally through opportunistic mechanisms anyway and that perfection is not required for incremental superiority. Degrees matter -- even slight degrees. Yes, the Republicans have been profoundly infected with PC -- particularly in the one sphere where it matters most: the tendency to swallow whole the PC multiculturalist paradigm whereby Islam itself and the vast majority of Muslims remain hermetically harmless while the problem of Islam is surgically detached as one of a tiny minority of extremists whose motives have nothing much to do with Islam itself and whose motives never taint an antiseptically protected and easily identifiable vast majority of Muslims.
Nevertheless, we regularly see signs of residues of rationality among Republicans (and among those on the Right in Europe) to a degree incrementally higher than among Democrats and Leftists.
Thank you, remote control.
Bingo-
I hope that was just a rare lapse of sense on your part. Failure to discern such differences are the result of being force-fed a disability to discriminate between various shades of gray.
Right up there with "Fundamentalist Christians are just as dangerous as radical muslims"
Let's keep an eye on just who is contributing to Steny Hower's campaign funding. CAIR, anyone?
That Texas, esp., invited a Muslim cleric is beyond belief.
Hey Texas - your Dhimmicrats are letting the Muslims "mess" with you - you gonna do something about it or remain silent Dhimmis?
Republicans lobby Pelosi to protect 'John Does'
It's bad I know, but this just strikes me as plain hillarious.
She is, well ... on the other side!
Maybe there are a couple of GOP'ers out there with enough remaining grey matter to work this into a good opportunity for her to embarrass herself.
I have my doubts though.
Pelosi Galore has pretty clearly thrown her lot in with the enemy and the fifth column -- apparently in the belief that it will help her gain traction against the GOP.
Directly supporting the al-quaeda-dry-run imams ought to fit pretty smoothly with her overall program.
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