Ron Paul claims U.S. officials ‘set the stage for 9/11

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/ron-paul-u-s-officials-set-the-stage-for-911/

Posted on 07.8.11
By Stephen C. Webster
Categories: Featured, Nation

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), a contender for the Republican Party’s nomination to the presidency, has numerous fans and detractors who agree upon very little — but one thing nearly everyone who sees him can agree to is that he’s remarkably consistent about his political positions.

For a long time, Paul has called for government regulations on airport security to be repealed, leaving that responsibility to the airlines, so the statements below aren’t entirely new.

However, in an interview Friday with the conservative Fox News Channel, he again pitched this position, but with an ear-grabbing new approach, insisting that by not allowing private citizens to carry firearms on jumbo-jets, U.S. officials literally “set the stage for 9/11.”

[northoftheborder]

1. Now that makes a lot of sense.

:sarcasm:

Then the terrorists would have had a really easy time doing whatever they wanted, they would have been armed with guns. Even armed with simple knives, I can just see a gunfight at 30,000 feet being really successful.:sarcasm:

[gratuitous]

2. Yeah, everyone needs to be packing heat on airplanes

There's some thinking outside the box! Only law-abiding folks would be carrying, naturally. And none of the guns would go off accidentally or anything. Perfect. Should just about kill off the airlines.

[CBGLuthier]

3. "If I just had my gun!" is the rallying cry of the simple minded mouth breathers

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[ixion]

6. exactly

[SpiralHawk]

10. "Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military'Deferments' Cheney (R)

[rucky]

5. Why does he think that box-cutters were the weapon of choice?

:shrug:

[PeaceNikki]

7. He is also remarkably consistent in being batshit fucking insane.

[Shagbark Hickory]

8. Yeah but points for at least being consistent.

What's with that don't tread on me avatar btw? I've been meaning to ask you that for a while. Are you a teabagger?

[PeaceNikki]

9. Click on my profile to enlarge it. It doesn't say "tread" at all.

Ron Paul is a misogynistic racist asshole who gets no points from me. For anything.

[Shagbark Hickory]

12. OH. Ok!!

FYI the font is so small it's hard to read, a lot of people may be wondering about it.

[Ohio Joe]

13. One need only read her posts to know she is not a teabagger

You should have done that and really... I think you owe her an apology for suggesting it.

[PeaceNikki]

15. Thanks, Joe.

I was called a "Koch Plant" here a couple months ago by a troll. I literally lol'd. If I am a Koch plant, the Democrats have nothing to fear cuz they'd be *totally* doing it wrong.

Wrong tree... they barked up it.

[Shagbark Hickory]

17. Me Sowwy Nikki.

:hug:

[PeaceNikki]

14. oh well. Let them wonder. I have been here a long time and know dozens of DUer's IRL.

People who "wonder" can ask, search my posts and/or continue to "wonder". It doesn't say "tread" and I am not a teabagger.

I carried a poster size image of that avatar pic while marching in Madison. It'd also be hilarious to couple it with a pic of the Wisconsin 14 Senators' hands the day they fled the state to defend collective bargaining.

[Shagbark Hickory]

18. Sorry. Meant no harm. I couldn't read it . nm

[Ohio Joe]

11. Ron Paul is a racist douchebag

He does not deserve to get any of his shit aired here.

[MilesColtrane]

16. That boy ain't right in the head.

[LLStarks]

19. Normal, non-marshal guns in a pressurized cabin would just kill everyone faster. nt