{"id":190133,"date":"2010-01-03T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/03\/elections-have-consequences-not-pandering-to-the-house-of-saud\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:08:00","slug":"elections-have-consequences-not-pandering-to-the-house-of-saud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/03\/elections-have-consequences-not-pandering-to-the-house-of-saud\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections Have Consequences:  Not Pandering to the House of Saud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/04\/us\/04webtsa.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">TSA will engage in aggressive screening of travelers from 14 countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that, once again, we are seeing something that is more security theater than real security, but there is a refreshing change in this little charade:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Citizens of 14 nations, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, who are flying to the United States will be subjected indefinitely to the intense screening at airports worldwide that was imposed after the Christmas Day bombing plot, Obama administration officials announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Citizens of Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria, countries that are considered \u201cstate sponsors of terrorism,\u201d as well as those of \u201ccountries of interest\u201d \u2014 including Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Saudi Arabia<\/span>, Somalia and Yemen \u2014 will face the special scrutiny, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>This is significant break from the way that Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> dealt with the House of Saud, which basically involved putting their tongues so far up the anus of Prince Bandar that they tasted tonsils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253, the TSA will engage in aggressive screening of travelers from 14 countries. I think that, once again, we are seeing something that is more security theater than real security, but there is a refreshing change in this little charade: Citizens of 14 nations, including Pakistan, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1031,1061,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-of-saud","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}