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Title: Professor who criticized Bush added to terrorist 'no-fly' list
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RawStory
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Profe ... icized_Bush_added_to_0409.html
Published: Apr 9, 2007
Author: RawStory
Post Date: 2007-04-09 11:45:39 by Brian S
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Views: 202
Comments: 18
A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a televised speech that slammed President George W. Bush's executive overreach recently learned that he had been added to the Transportation Security Administration's terrorist watch list. He shared his experience this weekend at the law blog Balkinization. Walter F. Murphy, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Emeritus, at Princeton University, attempted to check his luggage at the curbside in Albuquerque before boarding a plane to Newark, New Jersey. Murphy was told he could not use the service. "I was denied a boarding pass because I was on the Terrorist Watch list," he said. When inquiring with a clerk why he was on the list, Murphy was asked if he had participated in any peace marches. "We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," a clerk said. Murphy then explained that he had not marched, but had "in September, 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the Web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the Constitution." The clerk responded, "That'll do it." Murphy was allowed to board the plane, but was warned that his luggage would be "ransacked." On his return trip, his luggage was lost. Murphy is a decorated Marine who served in the Korean War and was a reservist for 19 years. Mark Graber, who presented the blog post, adds that there were other reasons that Murphy was an unlikely terror suspect. "While he holds some opinions, most notably on welfare, similar to opinions held on the political left, he is a sharp critic of ROE V. WADE, and supported the Alito nomination," he wrote. The blog post on Murphy's experience can be accessed at this link.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
That's outrageous, you little punk.
I had to fly as my brother this last year. Fortunately he look much alike. I was angered to find myself on this list. Like Bush my father was a Naval aviator in WW II, and I served nine years honorably in the Army, a large portion of those years in combat arms. I now take this as a badge of distinction and an invitation to get further into their faces, especially during the next presidential race.
Wow!!! So, marching for peace makes one a suspected ter'ist. Is this Orwellian or is it Hitlerian? I should better shut up coz I'll be flying this afternoon :)))))))
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
Jim Moore, the author of critical books about Karl Rove, was put on the no-fly list. When I posted his piece about his experience as Breaking News on LP, Goldilox suspended my posting privileges for doing that.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
It's a good thing I don't fly because I would wind up behind bars.
Do you think Goldie has the hots for Karl Rove?
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
I'd like to make a boot that fits the landing gear of a large commercial jetliner and put it on a plane at an airport to protest the way they use the right to fly to stifle dissent. Ideally I would prefer to put it on AF one, but one would probably be shot if they approached the chimp's Air Force gratuity.
I'm not sure Moore's article about his being on the no-fly list even mentioned Rove.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Well, yes. Peace activists blow up airplanes all the time. The serious ones anyway. You didn't know that?
I believe I got it. It's like the tree huggers who put Nine Inch Nails(tm) in trees to hurt the tree cutters.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
Spiking trees is not done to protest the cutting of trees in any circle I run it. It is a bummer of a tactic that removes focus from the attack of movers and shakers of logging without laws to one where blue collar workers are scapegoats for them instead. In fact, it is something rarely done by anyone anymore, even ELFers.
Is this Orwellian or is it Hitlerian? I should better shut up coz I'll be flying this afternoon :))))))) I would call it Stalinist in the main mixed with key notes of Trotsky. Another 19 months, 12 days, and 14 hours left of this reign of thugs. I hope God is keeping a list and checking it twice to see whose been naughty or nice so that skeletor and the dickster and fatboy doug and wolfie and the prince of darkness perle and goofy are all dispatched to Hell.[that's just the starter A team - there's several lines meant for destination hell] Btw, I hope you have a nice flight today.
When inquiring with a clerk why he was on the list, Murphy was asked if he had participated in any peace marches. "We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," a clerk said. Murphy then explained that he had not marched, but had "in September, 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the Web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the Constitution." The clerk responded, "That'll do it." Murphy was allowed to board the plane, but was warned that his luggage would be "ransacked." On his return trip, his luggage was lost. Murphy is a decorated Marine who served in the Korean War and was a reservist for 19 years. ping!
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
More here: http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=49779&Disp=0
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Why would anyone be surprised at this? To me, it is more like par for the course.
it's probably done by undercover agents - for disinformation & propaganda purposes
Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
it is outrageous that they do this. and basically nobody cares either, that is outrageous also. I read that Senator Kennedy & Congressman Louis had both been unable to fly at some instances.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
This story is the realization of our fears. When a constitutional law professor from Princeton can be added to a terror watch list for criticizing the president, one can only conclude that the input for the system is controlled at the highest levels of the government. In other words, Karl Rove has someone reviewing US media for people to add, and when he finds them, they're added as enemies. I'm familiar with the situation Jim Moore faced, and he was added to list shortly after his book, Bush's Brain, about Karl Rove, came out. He's been a political reporter in Texas for decades, and some think he's pretty good.
"We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," a clerk said.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#2. To: who knows what evil (#1)
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#6. To: aristeides (#4)
#7. To: who knows what evil (#5)
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#8. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#6)
#9. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#3)
So, marching for peace makes one a suspected ter'ist.
#10. To: Neil McIver (#9)
#11. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#10)
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#12. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#3)
So, marching for peace makes one a suspected ter'ist.
#13. To: Brian S, SKYDRIFTER, tom007, Eoghan, Dakmar, randge, rowdee, Jethro Tull (#0)
"I was denied a boarding pass because I was on the Terrorist Watch list," he said.
#14. To: All (#13)
#15. To: robin (#13)
#16. To: Ferret Mike (#11)
Spiking trees is not done to protest the cutting of trees in any circle I run it
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