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Thank you Senator DeMint for placing him on hold and doing the President’s job for him.
I am sending this to my Senator and letting him and putting them on notice that I know they know…..

The guy is an enemy combatant in a suit. No wonder Obama didn’t ‘vet’ him. He didn’t have to. He’s no different than our poser in chief.

So let’s stiart keeping a running list of Obama nominees or near-nominees with problematic (at best) backgrounds…

I’m sure I’ll miss some here, but the first lot that come to mind.

1. Tim Geithner
2. Tom Daschle
3. Errol Southers
4. John Holdren
5. Vann Jones
6. Keving Jennings
7. Eric Holder
8. Bill Richardson
9. Charles Freeman
10. Dawn Johnsen
11. David Hamilton

That’s for starters, and we’re not even a year into this tortured era.

To think: Hillary! freaking Clinton is a voice of reason(!) in this administration. Oh my.

Recco is not working for me or I would.

Thanks Senator

Certainly there has been massive “change,” but equally certainly it has brought anything BUT “hope.” I don’t recall any graduates of Bob Jones University (just to name one of the most passionately evangelical Christian institutions) or Jesuits teaming up to ram passenger planes into buildings or blow them from the sky. But I must have missed the coverage. Nor do I recall any Orthodox Jews strapping on bombs when we sent aid to Gaza and leaned on Israel to negotiate with Arafat. Must have missed those stories, as well. Until 2009, I never thought I would see an operation in DC which could even come close to rivaling the incompetence & naiveté of grovelin’ jimmuh . . . but obama & crew have already surpassed that dark chapter of our history and in the process dramatically lowered the standards of the office. The average 8th grader has more substance than this group.

thank you Sen. De Miint…

Nothing this admin. does or who they appoint shocks me anymore. I just feel a deep anger over what a mockery they have made of this country, and utter a profound prayer for true retribution to those who have perpetrated my country’s weakening. May those who are suppose to represent the will of the people and then blithely ignore that will and implement their own will because in their mind We the People are just the great unwashed, feel the total wrath of said unwashed this year and for years to come. “Let it be so!”.

Leftist lunatics? Is there one person left on Left who believes in traditional American Values?

He said that Americans will have to allow their civil liberties to be destroyed if terror attacks occur. Then think about Obama wanting his own little army to do to Americans what he demands. Then think about Rahm’s ‘never let a crisis go to waste’. I wonder how many Americans they will allow (cause) to be killed to achieve their goals?

A “threat” in security jargon is the likelihood of an attack and the damage it would do. It’s akin to a risk assessment in business.

The probability of a nuclear attack happening in the next five minutes is next to zero. The likelihood of a nuclear attack attempt in the next 20 years approaches metaphysical certitude.

But with a nuclear attack it isn’t the likelihood of one occurring that is the problem, but the damage that one would do. Loss of a US city would make 9/11 seem like the Pantybomber by comparison, an orders of magnitude greater problem.

So even if you think a nuke attack unlikely, it’s still a huge threat.

As usual, Obama has selected an incompetent ideologue like himself.

profile sounds exactly like the same agenda that is being pursued by the current administration. It appears as though Mr. O is vetting his own appointments and czars. And doing one heck of a job at it if your vision for America is complete and total destruction. I do have one question for our current illegitimate President——-who in the HELL vetted HIM ????? Michael Moore or Cindy Shehan.

Erroll Southers ranting about “Christian Identity” terrorist groups

I listened to the clip by izone and those groups may very well have those characteristics? I didn’t get the impression that being pro-life or a survivalist was the defining thing here just that those terrorist groups and they also have those charactersitics. He mentioned extreme people that all of us think are wackos he didn’t say it was people going to your local baptist churches.

I still have to type my respone to Zoosuit about ed laws and have had a sick animal so haven’t done it yet but we are wrong here, he did not say what we are saying he did, we shouldn’t do this to this man. He was just describing these white supremist groups. We should apologize to him.

“we didn’t fully vet this nominee” be taken as a big bright blinking sign of incompetence and negligence as ground for impeachment? Just wondering…

that is working with a radical anti-American terrorist group? Why is Obama funding this group?

Why is this group not charged with threats to a president for inviting Islamic terrists to come to the United States and get George and Laura Bush?

Why is the media not making the connection between Obama and Code Pink a big deal? They are on the verge of being a threat to the country and he is in bed with them! They need to be shut down, and shut down hard now. They are inviting terrorists to come to our country to clean it out?

The ad, titled “Arrest the War Criminals” with a subhead that contains the invitation to “join us in cleansing our country” links back to a Code Pink site that calls for the kidnapping of former President George W. Bush, his wife Laura and other former members of his administration through ‘citizens arrests’ for defending America against terrorists in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks by Al Qaeda.

It’s a racist “church” affiliated with Aryan Nation.

The anti-abortion comment from Southers was uncalled for.

The question posed to him that led to the “Christian Identity Group” comment, was what poses the largest homegrown threat. It did not ask him if he ranked the KKK, Aryan Nation, etc. ahead of Al-Qaeda on a threat matrix. The Christian Identity Group comment was also just about describing one trait of white supremacist groups, in my opinion. Same with his anti-government comment.

As to Israel, he stated the obvious that many Islamic groups hate the US because of our alliance. He did not state that alliance was necessarily a bad foreign policy decision. In fact, he was pretty complimentary of the assistance our intelligence community is getting from Israel.

Beyond the anti-abortion comment, the only truly objectionable thing I heard in those videos was that he supports curbs on civil rights (an inconvenience as he put it) in exchange for security.

I oppose Southers because TSA needs the flexibility to rapidly redeploy personnel as it sees fit. That won’t happen with a unionized TSA. If Southers cannot guarantee a non-union TSA then he should not go through. Well that and thinking curbs on civil liberties are a fair trade for the illusion of enhanced security.

The credits on those videos state this was filmed in 2007 for whatever it is worth. I think someone asked upthread when they were made.

of posters here, and the OP. I watched all four of the videos linked to, and while I found statements that I object to, I don’t think that the characterization of Southers, per this set of videos, is fair. Southers is responding to specific questions, and to that end, attempts to answer them to the best of his abilities. His statements regarding pro-life and white supremacist groups were made in response to the question, “Are there groups inside the United States that pose danger to our security?” (Emphasis mine; Section 7 of the linked vid) His statements in the preceding section concerned Islamic groups that operate in the US, and how groups like Hezbollah and Hamas are more active in the US than the public would think. Therefore, the statements indicating that Southers “is worried more about tea party activists than Islamic terrorists” seem fraudulent, to me. (Given Erick’s front-page apologies and valuation of the truth, I highly doubt that he is being willfully deceptive through his statements, but the statements themselves are wrong, per the evidence provided on this post.)

On the level of blame assigned to the US for Al-Qaeda’s attacks, I assume that the offending statement is this one: “Due to connectivity that we have with countries such as Israel, France, countries that are seen by groups, by Al-Qaeda [sic] as being ‘infidels’ or ‘anti-Islamic’, by the true nature of our alliance with them means that we are subject to being attacked as well.” (0:13, Section 2) I don’t see an assignation of blame here, but rather, a realistic assessment of what our alliance with those countries means to Al-Qaeda. This impression is corroborated by the context, in which he is explaining why anti-terrorism should be a high priority for us as a nation. To wit, the idea that Ron Paul would find a sympathetic ear in Southers wrt the concept of blowback is doubtful.

“Some might argue that our foreign policy exacerbates terrorism” is expanded upon by Southers, and he states that Al-Qaeda, etc. use our foreign policy as part of their propoganda, and that “our foreign policy really needs to engage communities across the globe in explaining what we do, why we’re doing it, and partner with them.” (0:35; Section 1)

His statements concerning a nuclear incident as the result of terrorism are 100% correct short-term, and 100% wrong long-term, so that statement’s fair game. But his statement that terrorists = Muslims is a misconception, while probably a strawman “misconception”, can’t be used to state as a fact that Southers is anti-profiling, or that he will “focus on pro-lifers and Christians instead” as TSA head.

I disagree with a great number of his statements,including some of those that I quote here (Socrates’ post concerning the nuke threat is a great starting point for criticism of Southers), and the list of places where he errs is not a small one. And he may very well indicate a desire to focus on pro-lifers and “anti-government” people elsewhere, as other libs are wont to. But if we’re using these videos as proof, can’t we focus on areas where he is 100% wrong on them, without misrepresenting his POV (again, per these videos)?

I sincerely hope that no one takes this as an attack on themselves or Erick; as one of my few contemporary political heroes, I’m not fond of having to write this post, and if you think that I’m wrong, I welcome a response!

To understand their mindset you need to understand who “THEY” are and who “WE” are and why “THEY” are so afraid of “US”. I go into a lot more detail on this on my blog at http://carltonnewman.blogspot.com but here is a synopsis.

God created souls in His image and likeness of His Light, Energy and Consciousness; His sacred Fire (our God is a consuming fire). St Paul admonished us to “put on” that Mind that was also in Christ Jesus because that Mind is our True Identity and we are here in the earth to “put it on” and become who we really are. Our Christ identity is a unique personality in God. Jesus saved us so that we could complete this mission and do the things that he said that we would do and greater things when we accomplished this.

Lucifer rebelled against God’s plan to have souls become His Christs; His only begotten Sons and Daughters with all power in heaven and in earth and dominion over all of the creation. Lucifer and his angels waged war against God and were cast into the earth. Lucifer had the knowledge of creation including genetics and he “created” a godless, soulless, robotic, mechanized man creation that Jesus called “the tares among the wheat”. They do not have a Christ mind and a unique personality but are like ants in an ant hill with a Socialist Collective consciousness with no sense of guilt, shame, remorse, right or wrong and with computer like brains and a vast intellect (intellectual nincompoops with no common sense). Common sense is a quality of the Christ Mind. Jesus said that in their time they would be greater than the children of God but when the children of God became who they really are they would be greater than the tares because they would be able to do the things that he did.

The tares and fallen angels are deathly afraid that the children of God will become the Christs that they really are and will then finally cast the tares and fallen angels out of the earth (know ye not that ye will judge angels?). That is why “THEY” are more afraid of “US” then they are of Islamic Terrorists. The fallen angels and tares are the “false brethren crept in unawares” among all nations, peoples, religions, creeds and cultures to “spy out our liberties” and to corrupt and lead astray the children of God. They work themselves into positions of power by hook or by crook to pervert whatever group or organization they associate themselves with including politics, religion, education, health, etc., etc.

Therefore be wise as serpents and gentle as doves and know them by their fruits (the things they do and espouse).

“His name had been floated for the federal job earlier this year and was warmly received by unions and airport screeners, who say Southers will embrace collective bargaining for screeners.
Now “the question of bargaining rights at TSA is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when,’ ” said John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, in a statement applauding the choice. “We are confident that the appointment of Mr. Southers as administrator will help put that matter to bed.”

It really does not matter one bit that he has any skills in keeping us safe It was an appeasement appointment for the unions to gain more power and funding. The real threat is not the terrorist that he is suppose to be stopping but the growing expansion of the Unions in that protective cover that we all have to depend upon for our safety. It is as plain as day the reason for his appointment has nothing to do with Airport security but everything to do with Union job security
This has nothing to do with terrorist

Come on Glenn. This is begging for a full-blown show.

…nominee, here, but it’s “Christian Capital-I-dentity”, which excludes the Southern Baptist Convention. He was describing people like Posse Comitatus, the Montana Freemen and the Republic of Texas. PC (Gordon Kahl) are responsible the shooting deaths of two Federal Marshals and an Arkansas sheriff.

There’s plenty-enough ammo (blaming US foreign policy for terrorism, snooping on his ex’s boyfriends, unionizing TSA, obsessed w/Northern Idaho vs. Yemen, etc.) to justify the hold and defeat his nomination. Roping in the SBC is kinduva reach.

This guy dropped out, as of now, and claims that he is a “lightning rod” for people with an agenda.

This means you, RedStaters.

Congratulations!!!