Can Bush get away with this?

[#juan]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Professor who criticized Bush told added
[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]to terrorist 'no-fly' list[/FONT] Michael Roston
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Published: Monday April 9, 2007[/FONT][/FONT]
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A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a televised speech that slammed President George W. Bush's executive overreach was recently told that he had been added to the Transportation Security Administration's terrorist watch list. He shared his experience this weekend at the law blog

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Professor_who_criticized_Bush_added_to_0409.html

 

[#juan]

This is the first time a Princeton professor, or any American professor has been banned from flying for criticizing the president. I would almost think this was grounds for impeachment.

 

[MikeyDB]

Bush identifying the "intelligetia" as potential criminals...follows a long history of facist regimes that made sure that the thinkers in a nation beset with corruption and criminality at the highest levels made voices raised against them...enemies of the state.
Did anyone really expect anything else????

 

[hermanntrude]

who knows, maybe he's involved in terrorism? he's got a beard... maybe he's a muslem.

 

[#juan]

who knows, maybe he's involved in terrorism? he's got a beard... maybe he's a muslem.

His name is Murphy.....He is a professor Emeritus from Princeton.....would he have time to be a terrorist??

 

[Curiosity]

Apparently even the clerk checking his credentials knew why he was banned from flying - and yet - he did fly - go figure.
So what exactly is this article trying to put out? That George Bush is mean to a guy who disagrees with him?
I hardly think that would go over with the Homeland Security folk who are doing the checking for things that are on a list long ago prepared, revised, updated, etc. etc.
The professor has now been given an opportunity to rant about his nemesis....a gift no?
Any real reasons to offer? Roe v Wade? Everyone is against that one. Next?

 

[darkbeaver]

We fight to promote fascism, we believe we are freedom loving democrats, we are just tools of the ruling capitalist paradigm. Fat stupid consumers of cheezeburgers worried about our investment portfolios and retirement plans. Retire to what? Join the circus, eat the planet.

 

[Curiosity]

His name is Murphy.....He is a professor Emeritus from Princeton.....would he have time to be a terrorist??

I dunno Juan - the Irish have had some pretty hefty terrorists groups in their recent history
Time to be a terrrorist? Professors have all the time in the world. They even have time to teach it to young minds.
Not that I am saying he is a terrorist - but he has something 'iffy' in his background and he should work to clear it or update it or whatever if he wants to fly or has to fly.
I can't believe this is the only time the guy has boarded a plane and been detained.. He's probably made many plane trips over the years.
This may have been his one and only opportunity to make a big deal of it.

 

[#juan]

Bush identifying the "intelligetia" as potential criminals...follows a long history of facist regimes that made sure that the thinkers in a nation beset with corruption and criminality at the highest levels made voices raised against them...enemies of the state.
Did anyone really expect anything else????

Yeah that happened in Nazi Germany and other places like that but this is the United States, an avowed "free country".

 

[MikeyDB]

Sure we should all trust Bush and Homeland security.... Does 9/11 ring any bells??? The people trusted the alphabet soup of government agencies to safeguard their nation...whoops that didn't work now did it!
We should trust George Bush and the Whitehouse gang who've demonstrated to the world that they're prepared to take America to war on lies and exaggeration....
Sure let's trust them....

 

[eh1eh]

We fight to promote fascism, we believe we are freedom loving democrats, we are just tools of the ruling capitalist paradigm. Fat stupid consumers of cheezeburgers worried about our investment portfolios and retirement plans. Retire to what? Join the circus, eat the planet.

Feeling a little down today Dark?

 

[#juan]

Apparently even the clerk checking his credentials knew why he was banned from flying - and yet - he did fly - go figure.
So what exactly is this article trying to put out? That George Bush is mean to a guy who disagrees with him?
I hardly think that would go over with the Homeland Security folk who are doing the checking for things that are on a list long ago prepared, revised, updated, etc. etc.
The professor has now been given an opportunity to rant about his nemesis....a gift no?
Any real reasons to offer? Roe v Wade? Everyone is against that one. Next?

That is one I can't figure out. How can he be on the "no fly list", and still fly? I'm beginning to see the light here.

 

[Toro]

We fight to promote fascism, we believe we are freedom loving democrats, we are just tools of the ruling capitalist paradigm. Fat stupid consumers of cheezeburgers worried about our investment portfolios and retirement plans. Retire to what? Join the circus, eat the planet.

1. I'm not fat.
2. If I'm cancer-free when I'm 75, I'm going to eat a bacon-cheeseburger every day. Either cancer or heart-disease is going to get you and I'd rather die from an instant heart attack.
3. You cannot actually eat the planet. 99.9999999999999999999% of the planet is made of materials that aren't edible. And they wonder why we don't take the Left seriously! Geeez!
4. With all those retired people falling off the high-wire and missing their mid-air trapeze stunts, we need a steady supply of old folks to entertain the well-to-do in society.

 

[thomaska]

Sounds like he made his flight. but hey, why not take the opportunity to slam Bush a little more? Its all the rage nowadays.Somehow I doubt a critical professor even makes a blip on Bush's daily radar, but one of the symptoms of Bush Derangement Sydrome is probably an over inflated sense of self importance.
There's what, maybe 100 million Walter Murphys on the planet? But because he's a Professor "Emeritous", it must be him, ...Bush must have taken personal notice, and penned him in on the list himself.

 

[Toro]

That is one I can't figure out. How can he be on the "no fly list", and still fly? I'm beginning to see the light here.

Maybe the "no fly list" is really a "we'd really rather him not fly but he can if he insists upon it list."

 

[Kreskin]

It's probably a watchlist so the counterspin department can follow him. Someone got a little overzealous at airport security.

 

[Toro]

Its probably one of those made up union jobs, like the ones on The Sopranos.

 

[MikeyDB]

Kreskin...
Are you thinking of Maher Arar here.....
You don't honestly think that the "Land of the Free" and the "Home of the Brave"...really have an agenda now do you......

 

[#juan]

Maybe the "no fly list" is really a "we'd really rather him not fly but he can if he insists upon it list."

Or how about the "Hassle this guy, but not too much" list..?

 

[Curiosity]

Juan - Eureka
The professor has been having clandestine meetings - with Cindy Sheehan.