11 Muslims board Flight 297 to Houston

This situation has had a slow uunfolding over rhe past week. I have posted 3 updates. Please read them.

Update 12/5

Update 2

Update 3


The following was sent to me by wtucker111 who is an intrepid emailer and active opponent of all policies Obama.

I have called two people to check on it. One has had their name and information removed because they have no direct involvement. I have left a message on Hackemack's voice mail requesting a call back. The message on the machine said that he wasn't answering because of the volume but said the description of what happened is accurate.

Forwarded Message:
Subj: Fw: AIRLINE TRAVEL INEPTITUDE, INCOMPETENCE & ARROGANCE
Date: 12/1/2009 12:55:43 P.M. Central Standard Time
From:
To:
Sent from the Internet (Details)


Watch who's getting on airplanes these days. This incident may be a harbinger of things to come.

The conclusion is right, they were 'testing' to see what would happen, and what the reactions of the passenger crew, the flight deck crew, the TSA, and the other passengers would be.

Our ongoing war against terrorists and terrorism, even on American soil, is only just beginning, it is not nearly over, it will never be over.

Draw your own conclusions.


--- On Tue, 12/1/09, wrote:


From:
Subject: AIRLINE TRAVEL INEPTITUDE, INCOMPETENCE & ARROGANCE
To:
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 10:05 AM


I, Gene Hackemack, received this email from my good friend Tedd Petruna, a diver at the (Employer deleted) whom I used to work with. Tedd happened to be on this same Flt. 297, Atlanta to Houston.


In my opinion, the muslims are all getting very brave now, since they have one of their own in the white house......read Tedd's story below.


Semper Fi

Gene Hackemack

PS...can you imagine, our own news media now are so politically correct that they are afraid to report that these were all muslims...unbelievable. Thank God for people like Tedd Petruna.

A. Gene Hackemack

buttonbox01@gmail.com

(I have deleted telno and home address)



----- Original Message -----

From: Petruna, Tedd J. (I have deleted employer's name.)

To: undisclosed-recipients

Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 11:32 AM

Subject: Long story short....

One week ago, I went to Ohio on business and to see my father. On Tuesday, November the 17th, I returned home. If you read the papers the 18th you may have seen a blurb where a AirTran flight was cancelled from Atlanta to Houston due to a man who refused to get off of his cell phone before takeoff. It was on Fox.

This was NOT what happened.

I was in 1st class coming home. 11 Muslim men got on the plane in full attire. 2 sat in 1st class and the rest peppered themselves throughout the plane all the way to the back. As the plane taxied to the runway the stewardesses gave the safety spiel we are all so familiar with. At that time, one of the men got on his cell and called one of his companions in the back and proceeded to talk on the phone in Arabic very loudly and very aggressively. This took the 1st stewardess out of the picture for she repeatedly told the man that cell phones were not permitted at the time. He ignored her as if she was not there.

The 2nd man who answered the phone did the same and this took out the 2nd stewardess. In the back of the plane at this time, 2 younger Muslims, one in the back, isle, and one in front of him, window, began to show footage of a porno they had taped the night before, and were very loud about it. Now….they are only permitted to do this prior to Jihad. If a Muslim man goes into a strip club, he has to view the woman via mirror with his back to her. (don’t ask me….I don’t make the rules, but I’ve studied) The 3rd stewardess informed them that they were not to have electronic devices on at this time. To which one of the men said “shut up infidel dog!” She went to take the camcorder and he began to scream in her face in Arabic. At that exact moment, all 11 of them got up and started to walk the cabin. This is where I had had enough! I got up and started to the back where I heard a voice behind me from another Texan twice my size say “I got your back.” I grabbed the man who had been on the phone by the arm and said “you WILL go sit down or you Will be thrown from this plane!” As I “led” him around me to take his seat, the fellow Texan grabbed him by the back of his neck and his waist and headed out with him. I then grabbed the 2nd man and said, “You WILL do the same!” He protested but adrenaline was flowing now and he was going to go. As I escorted him forward the plane doors open and 3 TSA agents and 4 police officers entered. Me and my new Texan friend were told to cease and desist for they had this under control. I was happy to oblige actually. There was some commotion in the back, but within moments, all 11 were escorted off the plane. They then unloaded their luggage.

We talked about the occurrence and were in disbelief that it had happen, when suddenly, the door open again and on walked all 11!! Stone faced, eyes front and robotic (the only way I can describe it). The stewardess from the back had been in tears and when she saw this, she was having NONE of it! Being that I was up front, I heard and saw the whole ordeal. She told the TSA agent there was NO WAY she was staying on the plane with these men. The agent told her they had searched them and were going to go through their luggage with a fine tooth comb and that they were allowed to proceed to Houston. The captain and co-captain came out and told the agent “we and our crew will not fly this plane!” After a word or two, the entire crew, luggage in tow, left the plane. 5 minutes later, the cabin door opened again and a whole new crew walked on.

Again…..this is where I had had enough!!! I got up and asked “What the hell is going on!?!?” I was told to take my seat. They were sorry for the delay and I would be home shortly. I said “I’m getting off this plane”. The stewardess sternly told me that she could not allow me to get off. (now I’m mad!) I said “I am a grown man who bought this ticket, who’s time is mine with a family at home and I am going through that door, or I’m going through that door with you under my arm!! But I am going through that door!!” And I heard a voice behind me say “so am I”. Then everyone behind us started to get up and say the same. Within 2 minutes, I was walking off that plane where I was met with more agents who asked me to write a statement. I had 5 hours to kill at this point so why the hell not. Due to the amount of people who got off that flight, it was cancelled. I was supposed to be in Houston at 6pm. I got here at 12:30am.

Look up the date. Flight 297 Atlanta to Houston.

If this wasn’t a dry run, I don’t know what one is. The terrorists wanted to see how TSA would handle it, how the crew would handle it, and how the passengers would handle it.

I’m telling this to you because I want you to know….

The threat is real. I saw it with my own eyes….

-Tedd Petruna



A. Gene Hackemack

buttonbox01@gmail.com

Telnos and home address deleted

I have deleted two additional names and addresses because they are merely forwarders and are no actually involved.

The most chilling part for me is that the airline expected and ordered everyone to stay in their seats and just accept that everything was alright.



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Now we have Penn State involved.....

Among other things, the Watergate scandal of the 1970s gave us a great naming convention for future scandals. Take "Climategate" at Penn State. That's what people are calling the controversy surrounding leaked E-mails among climate change researchers that climate change opponents say expose the researchers' falsification of data. One Penn State professor is involved in the scandal.

The Penn State administration plans to investigate Climategate and determine if it needs to take further action, the Daily Collegian reports. A little more than a week ago, E-mails exchanged among an English university's climate change researchers were illegally obtained from a server and posted online, the report says.

Climate change opponents say the E-mails indicate that climate change researchers—including Penn State Prof. Michael Mann—exaggerated or fabricated global warming data. And, according to the report, some E-mails indicate that the director of the research unit in question may have contacted researchers and asked them to "delete certain E-mails."

Since billions of dollars in government and private grants are involved here, the request to "delete certan E-mails" seems to smack of conspiracy to conceal fraud. The university says it will investigate. I think it time that the FBI becomes involved.

If climate science is to ever have any credibility... Indeed if science itself is to escape being tainted... then there must be a full investigation by law enforcement. Not by members of academia who have to live with the possible perps!

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Glenn Greenwald writes...

In order to prepare Americans for Obama's Afghanistan escalation speech tonight at West Point (at least he's not wearing a fighter pilot costume), White House officials have been dispatched to speak to the media (anonymously, of course) to preview all of the new and exciting aspects of the President's plan. As a result, media accounts are filled with claims that there are major changes ordered by Obama that will transform our approach there.

Uh, Glen... I hate to bring this up but, unlike Obamie the Bower and Clinton the Dodger, BUSH WAS A FIGHTER PILOT.

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Donald Rumsfeld had the chance when he was US defence secretary in December 2001 to make sure Osama bin Laden was killed or captured, but let him slip through his hands, a Senate report has found.

The report by the Senate foreign relations committee is damning of the way George Bush's administration conducted the aftermath of its bombing campaign in Afghanistan, saying it amounted to a "lost opportunity". It states that as a result of allowing the al-Qaida leader to flee from his Tora Bora stronghold into Pakistan, Americans were left more vulnerable to terrorism, and the foundations were laid for today's protracted Afghan insurgency. It also lays blame for the July 2005 London bombings on a failure to kill the al-Qaida leaders at Tora Bora.

Republican critics are likely to dismiss the report as a partisan work designed to deflect the current military troubles in Afghanistan away from President Barack Obama and on to his predecessor. The committee is Democratic-controlled.

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This claim has been made so many times it has whiskers. The Lefties of the world love it, and bring it up because they want the West to withdraw from Afghanistan and turn it over to the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Here in the US we should remember that Obamie the Bower, and the Left, claimed that the war in Iraq was terrible, wrong, etc., etc. To combat the obvious and long running, conclusion that they were weak on national defense, Afghanistan became the straw man. They, and that includes The Chosen One, embraced the war in Afghanistan as just and one that we must win.

That was a successful strategy to get elected on. It froze the Republicans in place and even better, no one seemed to care about Afghanistan. Small, far away with few causalities and no real strategic value it was assumed that the world would forget The Chosen One’s many promises and he could slip out of there and Iraq in the glow of the American people’s love for his universal health care, stopping our use of oil, and his redistribution of our wealth to ACORN’s minions and clients.

But it didn’t work out that way. The economy was destroyed by the Democratic created subprime mess and the speculators run up of oil prices that the Democrats did nothing to stop. Running out of money Obamie the Bower pandered first to the Muslim world, then to Europe and finally to Asia. His failures were, as expected, large, visible and not acceptable.

Worse, his highly visible weakness and stupidity regarding the real world emboldened Al Qaeda and the Taliban to step up their attacks. Obamie’s chosen General saw that the troops were spread too thin, could not protect themselves and that he needed more. Forty thousand more. Confused and hopeful it would just go away he has dithered and dithered. Tonight he will announce what he will do.

My hope is that he announces that he will do what is necessary to win. My head says he will announce a plan to withdraw, thus killing more troops and more Americans.

But I digress. If the Left wants to make the issue of why bin Ladin was not pursued then I am happy to offer a small bit of information that they are unlikely to know.

At the point in time they speak of it is assumed by many that OBL had fled into the tall mountains in Tora Bora. These are some of the tallest mountains in the world, and the caves and redoubts are ensconced in such a manner that only nuclear weapons can be expected to damage to them.

In addition the high mountain valleys allow attacks only by entering and leaving them in a certain direction. This means that attacks by air, either by planes or helicopters must be done from directions that are known to the defenders. Thus they are like setting ducks to the defenders and even after paying the price, as in Vietnam and as the Soviets did in Afghanistan, it is doubtful they could do serious damage to the caves and redoubts.

And all of this assumes that we could know which cave bin Ladin was in.

If that doesn’t seem like something we should do then I welcome you to the real world.

The alternative then becomes troops. The problem was we didn’t have enough in place. Oh, we could have attacked, but we would not have had superior numbers. Our air support would be limited and because of the terrain, so would be our mobile high caliber guns and rockets as well as tanks. We would be fighting an enemy in his home, on his terms, with fewer troops and no advantage in weapons.

That would have been, and is now, a formula for disaster. That is why Bush decided that having Bin Ladin marginalized and in hiding was enough. He saw no reason to kill thousands of US troops to kill or capture a man who would just live on as a hero. Better to let him live and hope that the criminal justice system in Pakistan or Afghanistan would capture him.

Now you know.





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