House Members Oppose Airline Security Bill
March 30, 2007, 1:55 pm |
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by Bill Levinson
As reported by American Congress for Truth, H.R. 1401, the Rail and Public Transportation Security Act of 2007, passed the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation immunizes citizens from being sued for reporting, in good faith, suspicious activities like six imams chanting to Allah in an airport, arranging themselves on a passenger airplane the way the 9/11 hijackers did, and then asking for seat belt extenders for possible use of weapons against the flight crew or other passengers. See below for the list of House members who, by voting against this legislation, were effectively voting in favor of another 9/11.
Here is the legislation in question, per the American Congress for Truth E-mail.
The language for HR1640 was put into Rep. Shuster’s bill HR1401. Rep. Pearce’s leadership on this issue was central to this language being put into HR1401 which passed the House overwhelmingly by a vote of 304 to121.
“This is a big victory for all Americans,” Shuster said. “No American should ever be sued because they tried to stop a terrorist act. No American should be forced to second guess a decision to alert authorities that could save the lives of others.”
The Republican motion to recommit H.R. 1401, the Rail and Public Transportation Security Act of 2007, provides that any person who makes a voluntary disclosure regarding suspicious activity that constitutes a possible threat to transportation security to appropriate security and law enforcement authorities shall be immune from civil liability for such disclosure.
The amendment protects any such disclosure relating to threats to transportation systems, passenger safety or security, or possible acts of terrorism.
The amendment also shields transportation systems and employees that take reasonable actions to mitigate perceived threats.
The amendment is retroactive to activities that took place on or after November 20, 2006 - the date of the Minneapolis incident involving six Islamic leaders who were removed from a U.S. Airways flight after they were observed acting suspiciously.
Here is the list of House members who voted to make “any person who makes a voluntary disclosure regarding suspicious activity that constitutes a possible threat to transportation security to appropriate security and law enforcement authorities” liable to harassing and frivolous lawsuits by individuals who put air travelers in reasonable fear for their lives and safety by chanting to Allah, arranging themselves the way the 9/11 hijackers did, and asking for seat belt extenders with metal buckles (noting that none were sufficiently overweight to require them for legitimate reasons) that could be used as weapons against the flight crew or other passengers.
House Members Voting in Opposition
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Allen
Baca
Baldwin
Becerra
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Brady (PA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Castor
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Conyers (John Conyers, also wants reparations for slavery)
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dingell
Doggett
Ellison (Keith Ellison, the controversial Congressman from Minnesota)
Engel
Eshoo
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Frank (MA)
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hinchey (Maurice Hinchey of NY)
Hirono
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL) (Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson’s son)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kilpatrick
Kucinich (Dennis Kucinich, Wants to be President)
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (Barbara Lee, D-CA)
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey (Nita Lowey of the Million Mom March)
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY) (Carolyn McCarthy, also involved with the Million Mom March which may have used tax-exempt money to support her Congressional campaign. She doesn’t want us to have firearms for self-defense, and she apparently doesn’t want people to defend themselves against or report to law enforcement potential airplane hijackers either.)
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
Meehan
Meeks (NY)
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore (WI)
Nadler (Jerrold Nadler, another Million Mom March supporter)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Olver
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel (Wants to wreck our Armed Forces’ morale by reinstituting the draft)
Rodriguez
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky (Jan Schakowsky of IL, also involved with the Million Mom March)
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sires
Slaughter
Stark
Sutton
Tauscher
Thompson (CA)
Tierney
Towns
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Welch (VT)
Wexler
Woolsey
Wynn
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March 30th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Idiots voting against the bill should be put on a plane, it is esential that every step is taken not to permit another 9/11 even if it means restricting some or all of our rights if necessary.