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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Once a Marine…

From the Boston.com website:

Shortly before landing, Bob Hayden and a flight attendant had agreed on a signal: When she waved the plastic handcuffs, he would discreetly leave his seat and restrain an unruly passenger who had frightened some of the 150 people on board a Minneapolis-to-Boston flight Saturday night with erratic behavior.

Hayden, a 65-year-old former police commander, had enlisted a gray-haired gentleman sitting next to him to assist. The man turned out to be a former US Marine.

“I had looked around the plane for help, and all the younger guys had averted their eyes. When I asked the guy next to me if he was up to it, all he said was, ‘Retired captain. USMC.’ I said, ‘You’ll do,’ “ Hayden recalled. “So, basically, a couple of grandfathers took care of the situation.”

The incident on Northwest Airlines Flight 720 ended peacefully, but not before Hayden, a former Boston police deputy superintendent and former Lawrence police chief, and the retired Marine had handcuffed one man and stood guard over another until the plane touched down safely at Logan International Airport around 7:50 p.m.

Semper Fi

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Compare and contrast. Cpl Kokesh would have assisted. He would have assisted those being a problem. What a difference a day makes.


Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on June 6, 2007 at 04:20 am
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I had looked around the plane for help, and all the younger guys had averted their eyes.

I think it is this mindset that allowed the VT whackjob to stop and reload 14 times while victims studiously averted their eyes.

FlyOnTheWall on June 6, 2007 at 05:37 am

Said it before, I’ll say it again....wearing the Anchor, Globe and Eagle was a life’s experience that I’ll always be proud of. The type of pride that leftist pacifist liberals will never know.


Election ‘08 - We Are So Screwed

Pilgrim on June 6, 2007 at 09:51 am

The type of pride that leftist pacifist liberals will never know.

Of course they won’t.  They are all too busy “averting their eyes.”


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on June 6, 2007 at 10:45 am

They are all too busy “averting their eyes.”

They probably had that pounded into their heads by our ‘brave new schools’ which coincidently are mostly run by liberals.


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on June 6, 2007 at 04:58 pm

They probably had that pounded into their heads by our ‘brave new schools’ which coincidently are mostly run by liberals.

Spot on, Doc. 

The entire Leftist Strategic Direction has been to emasculate Western culture—largely successful in Western Europe and showing great inroads into the younger US set.

The Media and Education systems are leading this charge and have been doing so for years… boys can no longer be boys: no more cops and robbers, no more cowboys and indians and certainly no more playing army, any one of which is now a serious infraction and will get the miscreant labelled as having ADD, sentenced to counseling and forced onto a regime of SSRIs like Luvox, Prozac or Ritalin.

The TV and media push ‘empowered females’ who are constantly clocking larger males with mean right hooks, while the guys are portrayed as weenies.

Why do you suppose they call it programming
?

Semper Fi, Pilg --- the Corps is the last bastion of red-blooded maleness, and for that reason, singled out for special contempt by the likes of Sara Lister:

Just a few days ago one of those bureaucrats, a feminist lawyer he appointed to the post of assistant secretary of the Army, Sara Lister, publicly denounced the U.S. Marines as “extremists,” because their concepts of honor and tradition are a bit stronger than those of the other armed forces. She sneeringly referred to the Marines’ “checkerboard fancy uniforms and stuff” as one of the things which makes them “extremists,” one of the things which has to go in order to make good, Politically Correct democrats out of the Marines.

Bottom line: the home-grown Left having been handmaidens of overseas Leftists in operating as social corrosives, ensuring that they can break the will to fight in the Western male and to distance the Western female from the Western male, and to distance the children from their parents.


...for great justice

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Move_Zig on June 8, 2007 at 06:10 pm
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