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GOP Congressman: Why Is TSA Patting Down Grandma, Focus On ‘Guy In Arabian Dress’

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Republican Congressman Paul Broun serves on the Homeland Security Committee and apparently attends the Juan Williams school of tell us your honest thoughts regarding what you feel when you see Arab-looking individuals in the airport. Broun is upset political correctness demands that we give grandma a pat down at the airport, but don’t do the same for anyone who looks like they might really want to harm America.

Broun explained his worry:

“I went through the security at an airport. I walked through – right behind me there was a grandmother – a little old lady, and she was was patted down. Right behind her was a little kid who was patted down. And then right behind him, there was a guy in Arabian dress who just walked right through. Why are we patting down grandma and kids? We need to focus on those people who want to harm us.”

Broun suggests that the Department of Homeland Security focuses too much on the general public and urges that “we’ve got to start focusing on those people who want to harm us as a nation.”

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(h/t The Blaze)

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  • Rgentum

    See, it’s not just that Paul Broun is racist (he is). It’s also that he’s stupid. The 9/11 hijackers were dressed in western clothing. They deliberately made themselves appears as western as possible. And of course “home grown terrorists” are an emerging threat.

    OK, maybe he’s not stupid, maybe he’s banking on the fact that there are stupid racist people who will support and defend him for saying stupid racist things.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Just what we need in America: More mindless people giving us a piece of their mind. It’s like eating the holes in Swiss cheese.

  • Thelonious Funk

    It’s true, all Arabian dressed people look like they may harm America, mainly because they don’t look like me.

  • Cancon2

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Just what we need in America: More mindless people giving us a piece of their mind. It’s like eating the holes in Swiss cheese.

    So that is how you spend your time when you are not here?

    What America needs is to do is ban any poster who ever utters the words ” eating the holes in Swiss Cheese”.

  • Glackin

    So, if I REALLY want to bomb a plane, I just have six bearded guys put on headdresses and sandals.
    Then I put a nun behind them with a bomb under her habit?
    Congressmen, keep that piece of your mind. You need all you’ve got left.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Paul Broun has common sense .

    What’s he doing in Congress ?

  • A.R.

    stupidity and GOP goez together

    think abdulmutallab

  • The Lantern of Truth

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    mindless people

    Someone says this ^^^ , and look what shows up :

    Glackin says:

    I REALLY want to bomb a plane

  • Darr247

    Let’s see… how many of the hijackers on 9/11 were wearing ‘arabian dress’ ? Oh – that’s right – NONE.

    What was the underwear bomber wearing on his flight to Detroit (not New York as Bloomberg claimed on Face The Nation when the repugnant ones were fighting trials for the gitmo detainees in our criminal courts)?
    Oh – that’s right – NOT”ARABIAN DRESS”.

    What was the guy wearing when he got out of his LP-tank dud-mobile in Times Square? Oh – that’s right – NOT “ARABIAN DRESS”.

    Why on earth would anyone think what clothing someone wears would indicate if they were terrorists or not?
    Go watch Die Hard again, congressman dingbat… pretty-sure Rickman was wearing a suit and tie through most of that. Why aren’t you suspicious of people dressed like THAT?

  • Gasket

    Broun has always been an idiot. He’s a birther too.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    Anyone want to answer the basic question, “Why are we patting down grandmothers and children?”

    No? I didn’t think so.

  • Glackin

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Someone says this ^^^ , and look what shows up :

    Glackin says:

    I REALLY want to bomb a plane

    You talk a lot for a guy who screwed his daughters.
    Your entire life is out of context.

  • Glackin

    ImNotBlue said:
    Anyone want to answer the basic question, “Why are we patting down grandmothers and children?”

    No? I didn’t think so.

    “Grannie, would you hold this? It’s an engagement ring, for my fiancee. I want to ask her after we take off, but they’ll make me empty my pockets at the check-in. I don’t want to ruin the surprise. It’ll be our secret.”
    All he needs is one gullible grannie.

  • Barack Must Go

    GOP Congressman: Why Is TSA Patting Down Grandma, Focus On ‘Guy In Arabian Dress’

    Because we’re living ( for the time being anyway ) in Barack & Michelle’s amerika aka ‘ Backwards Land “. Not for much longer though.

  • Azarkhan

    An astounding Department of Justice threat to cancel airline flights to and from Texas, in addition to underhanded lobbying by TSA representatives, has killed efforts in the state to pass HB 1937, a bill that would have made invasive pat downs by TSA agents a felony…

    The fact that the Department of Justice and the TSA have resorted to threats of economic terrorism in addition to underhanded lobbying techniques again illustrates the fact that the federal government is increasingly behaving like a criminal enterprise with total disregard for the Constitution.

    http://www.infowars.com/financial-terrorism-tsa-holds-texas-flights-hostage/

  • Bill Huggins

    Barack Must Go said:
    GOP Congressman: Why Is TSA Patting Down Grandma, Focus On ‘Guy In Arabian Dress’

    Because we’re living ( for the time being anyway ) in Barack & Michelle’s amerika aka ‘ Backwards Land “. Not for much longer though.

    GOOD ONE!!

  • david r

    “I went through the security at an airport. I walked through – right behind me there was a grandmother – a little old lady, and she was was patted down. Right behind her was a little kid who was patted down. And then right behind him, there was a guy in Arabian dress who just walked right through. Why are we patting down grandma and kids? We need to focus on those people who want to harm us.”

    This Rep. Broun is a racist xenophobe who needs arrest by the thought police and reindoctrination at the DNC.

  • Dem4Ever

    Based upon the comments on this thread it appears that terrorists aren’t the only ones who hate conservatives and their war on terror!

  • Barack Must Go

    Rgentum said:
    See, it’s not just that Paul Broun is racist (he is). It’s also that he’s stupid. The 9/11 hijackers were dressed in western clothing. They deliberately made themselves appears as western as possible. And of course “home grown terrorists” are an emerging threat.

    OK, maybe he’s not stupid, maybe he’s banking on the fact that there are stupid racist people who will support and defend him for saying stupid racist things.

    Yeah, but that unmistakable Middle Eastern stench is a dead give away. Dressing them like a granny or a cheerleader wouldn’t matter.

    Why do muslim’s smell like shit? . . . so blind people can hate them too.

  • BatBoy

    Glackin said:
    So, if I REALLY want to bomb a plane, I just have six bearded guys put on headdresses and sandals.
    Then I put a nun behind them with a bomb under her habit?

    Glackin, you just don’t get it…..

    Expect a visit by the men and women in the black SUV’s.

    Given enough rope you lefties hang yourselves every time 1 Down….so many more to go!.

  • BatBoy

    david r said:
    This Rep. Broun is a racist xenophobe who needs arrest by the thought police and reindoctrination at the DNC.

    Please tell us you are not old enough to vote.

  • illusive man

    How dare we use logic when we look for possible terrorist’s.
    Let’s just keep patting down grandma and little suzi because the stupid way is the best way.
    And the best way is the politically correct way.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    “Congressman On Recent Flight: TSA Patted Down Child, Little Old Lady; Ignored Man In Arab Garb”

    Makes “lunatic-left sense” if you think about it – the guy in the a-rab garb is MOST LIKELY TO BE A D-CRAT SOCIALIST SUPPORTER – i.e., a “protected species”. Why, he might have even (illegally) voted for “You Lie!” hussein.

  • illusive man

    BatBoy said:
    Please tell us you are not old enough to vote.

    I’m quite sure that was sarcasm.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Glackin , you are one steaming pile of glackin .

  • http://crpa.co Ron C. de Weijze

    Finally this has reached the top level. Now what made that SOO hard?

  • OxyCon

    According to the logic of the left, muslim terrorists would wear either diapers or a granny dress the next time they want to slaughter innocent people.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    @ Glackin

    Ah… so we need to prepare for a hidden attack in a way that has never actually been attempted, but could possibly happen… and as such, we should focus our time and money on that plan, instead on the more simple and more obvious method of attack.

    Yes… it’s clear as mud.

    Oh, and what bomb or IED do you know of that is the size of a ring box?

  • BatBoy

    illusive man said:
    I’m quite sure that was sarcasm.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/17/13-year-old-boy-questioned-secret-service-facebook-posting/

    This 13 year old was just wanted the president to be safe and he got his visit…..

    I am just forwarning you lefties…when a Conservative gets in the White House, you are going to say and write very stupid things about the President and mostly likely you will rachet it up on the BS….all of these get check by the SS. If it is “just Sarcasm” you may have to explain that to the man. Just Saying…!!!

    So Glakin…let us know how it went…this guy was a Congressman…learn how to STFU just once in your sorry life.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    This is so typical, focusing on the possibly racist words and ignoring the central message. He was commenting on the logic, or lack thereof, of frisking Nanna and Kirby but allowing a possible foreign national to skip through. The same minds who insist we need to fondle all family members for our own protection will also defend the charges of profiling from any slighted interest group should somebody be singled out.

  • illusive man

    BatBoy said:
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/17/13-year-old-boy-questioned-secret-service-facebook-posting/ This 13 year old was just wanted the president to be safe and he got his visit….. I am just forwarning you lefties…when a Conservative gets in the White House, you are going to say and write very stupid things about the President and mostly likely you will rachet it up on the BS….all of these get check by the SS. If it is “just Sarcasm” you may have to explain that to the man. Just Saying…!!! So Glakin…let us know how it went…this guy was a Congressman…learn how to STFU just once in your sorry life.

    I agree that most “liberals” are stupid, emotional animals that say very stupid things.
    But david r was being sarcastic by saying Rep. Broun needed to be arrested and reindoctrinated for the crime of not being pc.
    “Liberals” hate it when people are not pc and I think david r was making fun of those fools.

    And yes, Glakin does need to STFU for once in his sad, gullible life.

  • WillP

    Sometimes, I wear a dress for my husband when we play dress up to surprise each other for a night home alone. I would not wear one of these dresses to the airport however!!

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  • timzank

    I watched a 7 or 8 year old kid getting an “enhanced” patdown at the airport in Fargo a couple of weeks ago. I was soooo relieved. It made me feel so much more secure to know my government is using common sense and protecting us all from those bomb throwin’ little lutheran lunatics in the upper midwest! uffdah!

  • Skippy

    Stupid wingnut sheep.

    The policy is based on RANDOM patting down of passengers, BECAUSE, if you MORONS remember, the 9-11 terrorists tried to look like anything else BUT NOT like SOMEONE CARRYING A SIGN.

    That is how freaking stupid you scared shtless wingnut sheep are. Like Billdo and I-sht-myself Williams. There are additional safety measures in place, you imbeciles, like background checks, metal detectors, explosive sniffing dogs, hidden security cameras, and training for TSA agents.

    You scared shtless stupid sheep, the first thing you have to do to set the security off is starting to act like demented as holes who should not be on a plane!

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    I always enjoy the Security Interrogation at check-in in European airports, particularly the question, “Have you received any packages from people you do not know while at the airport?”

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: I guess it’s which would you rather pat down a baby in diaper and grandma or some stinky guy in a potato sack outfit?

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