HARASSING AIRLINE PASSENGERS AND CREW
There are “rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful.” “passengers simmered over being forced to choose scans by full-body image detectors or probing pat-downs”.
The scanners use radiation. Over time, too much radiation can easily cause cancer. “Concerns about privacy and low-level radiation emitted by the machines have led some passengers to refuse screening. Under TSA rules, those who decline must submit to rigorous pat-down inspections that include checks of the inside of travelers’ thighs and buttocks. The American Civil Liberties Union has denounced the machines as a “virtual strip search.”” (Adam Goldman, Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers, AP, 16 Nov 2010)
BUT MAYBE THE INTENSIVE HARASSMENT IS LEGITIMATE
But surely all this harassment makes commercial aviation safer?
“‘Almost to a person, travel managers are concerned that TSA is going too far and without proper procedures and sufficient oversight.'” (‘You touch me and I’ll have you arrested’: Man ejected from airport and threatened with $10,000 fine after refusing invasive security check, Daily Mail, 16 Nov 2010)
TEACHING CHRISTIANS THEIR PLACE
Of course, there might be another motivation for this sort of thing.
“It’s all about everybody recognizing their role.” (Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary cited in Adam Goldman, Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers, AP, 16 Nov 2010) Ms. Napolitano is Jewish. (http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?9253-Obama%92s-cabinet-is-70-Jewish-plus-other-30-consist-of-non-Whites) So what role does she think Christians should be playing?
“You say that you trust in your god. Why, then, has he not delivered Jerusalem out of my hands?” “Do not deceive yourself with vain hope in that Christ, who was not even able to save himself from the Jews, who slew him by nailing him to a cross.” (Khusru Parviz cited in Percy Sykes, A History of Persia, Macmillan and Co., 1951, p 482)
Khusru Parviz was also on a campaign to help Christians “recognize their role”. (per Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary cited in Adam Goldman, Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers, AP, 16 Nov 2010)
“In A.D. 611 Khusru Parviz, taking advantage of the confusion, again invaded Syria, and after defeating a feeble Roman force sacked Antioch and Apamea. In the following year he invaded Cappadocia for the second time, and in A.D. 614 he took Damascus. From this centre his general in the ensuing year preached a war of extermination against the Christians, and being joined by a body of 26,000 Jews, he besieged, captured, and sacked Jerusalem, carrying off the “True Cross,” which was regarded through Christendom as the most sacred treasure in the world.” (Percy Sykes, A History of Persia, Macmillan and Co., 1951, p 482)
“It is said that no less than 90,000 Christians perished when Jerusalem fell.” (Jerusalem (A.D. 71-1099), Catholic Encyclopedia) “We should kill everyone here [in central Gaza]. Everyone here is a terrorist.” (Israeli Officer cited in Israeli Soldiers Confess to Murders in Gaza during Operation ‘Cast Lead’, Trends Updates, 21 Mar 2009)
“The Anastasis, Martyrion and other Christian sanctuaries were burned or razed to the ground. St. Helena’s great relic of the Holy Cross was taken off to Persia in triumph.
WHY
The Jews as a reward for their help were allowed to do as they liked in the city.” (Jerusalem (A.D. 71-1099), Catholic Encyclopedia)
- “When entering a house we had to pull the door and start shooting inside, from floor to floor. I wondered how this can make sense.” (Israeli Soldier cited in Israeli Soldiers Confess to Murders in Gaza during Operation ‘Cast Lead’, Trends Updates, 21 Mar 2009)
- 2107 Christians were slaughtered at the sheep pool alone. (Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: The city of Jerusalem, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p 390)
- 1207 monks and nuns in the monasteries on the Mount of Olives were murdered in the same sweep. (Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: The city of Jerusalem, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p 72)
The Christian monk Strategios was living near Jerusalem at the time. In his detailed account, he explains how Jews living among the Roman Christians in the city of Jerusalem opened the gates to the invaders. (Ed. by Adam H. Becker and Annette Y. Reed, The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Mohr Siebeck, 2003, p 116)
“It’s all about everybody recognizing their role.” (Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary cited in Adam Goldman, Scanners and pat-downs upset airline passengers, AP, 16 Nov 2010)
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