The Cabarrus GOP Men’s Club Meets Tonight (Thursday)
On the agenda:
- Ty Cobb, Candidate for the 12th District. Did you know that the current incumbent - Mel Watt - was the only person in Washington to vote against reforming the INS? The same INS that gave Mohammad Atta a student visa…MONTHS after he lead the 9/11 terrorists.
Obviously, we can do better.
Also, we’ll have a visit from a rep from the NCGOP and the usual fare.
We’ll be meeting at the Red Pig in Carolina Mall in Concord.
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Brad Spry // May 22, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Here is a citation to your INS/Atta student visa reference.
Anything is possible to discuss in retrospect. Luftschiffbau Zeppelin should have chosen helium, not hydrogen for the Hindenburg for example.
All-seeing, all-knowing technologies and techniques are no panacea. In fact, such things can lead to incredible abuse and corruption. You should read IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black, for some enlightenment on the topic.
2 Justin Thibault // May 22, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Brad - No system is perfect, but the problems with the INS were myriad.
The point is that it’s hard to make the case that Rep. Watt takes national security seriously.
3 Thierry Wernaers // May 22, 2008 at 2:44 pm
If you’re suggesting that Mel Watt is somehow to blame for 9/11 you have seriously gone off the deep end my friend.
4 Justin Thibault // May 22, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Thierry -
I’m not.
Brad was nice enough to offer the article where this was covered: Atta and his gang attended flight schools before they used them as missiles on 9/11/01. In order to attend the flight schools, they had to get student visas. These visas were approved. 9/11 happened, and then the notice that the visas were approved got the flight school exactly six months later.
Obviously - it’s a system that didn’t work. The measure that NO OTHER CONGRESSPERSON OR SENATOR voted against (except the Distinguished Gentleman from the worst case of Gerrymandering in the US) was to abolish INS and separate it into an enforcement and administrative organizations.
Watt didn’t contribute to 9/11; but he managed not to learn the same lessons that - oh - EVERYBODY ELSE DID. The first job of government is to keep its citizens safe from those who wish to do them harm - Mel Watt does not take that seriously; and the good people stuck in his Rorschach ink blot test of a district deserve better.
5 Aaron // May 22, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Yeah Justin: Don’t you know anything???
“9/11 was an inside job where Prince Bandhar, George W and Dick Cheney all conspired with the military industrial complex to blow up the WTC and Pentagon to provide us with a reason to go to Iraq to take their oil supplies. Didn’t you see those You- Tube video’s???” “Explosives in the basement, Tower number 5, Tower Number 5, Fire doesn’t melt steel, rabble rabble rabble…”
6 Kenneth McClamrock // May 23, 2008 at 9:43 am
I really like Ty Cobb. He seems like a genuine man who is extremely passionate about his country that he served for over 20 years.
7 Sam // May 23, 2008 at 7:15 pm
This district is gerrymandered, by court order actually, to specifically elect a black Democrat. Gerrymandering needs to be done away with so that these seats can be competitive. Voters aren’t choosing their representatives. The reps are choosing their voters.
8 Steve Smith // May 23, 2008 at 7:38 pm
You Guys have no idea of the population makeup of the the 12th District if you think that Ty Cobb (all be he a wonderful candidate) has a snow balls chance if winning . Money better spent on saving the eight for Hayes