My Experience with TSA in Orlando!

We just returned from a Western Caribbean cruise aboard the Carnival Dream.
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We docked at Port Canaveral and were driven to the Orland airport for return to Naples.

I have a pacemaker implanted in my chest so I never go through the scanners.  I gave the TSA agent the universal sign language that I was a pacemaker passenger and was taken out of line for the full physical body search as usual.

I was wearing my Navy Aviation baseball cap.

The TSA Officer said, "I see you are a veteran."  I replied "Yes, and I am also a member of the Association of Intelligence Officers and I know what we are up against.  It isn't just a small minority.  It is millions of religious fanatics who obsessively scheme to kill Americans.  I am glad you are on the job and exercising your duties professionally."

When the officer finished he said "God bless you ,sir and thank you for your service to our country.
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Support for terrorism: All the Muslim populations polled display a solid majority of support for Osama bin Laden. Asked whether they have confidence in him, Muslims replied positively, ranging between 8 percent (in Turkey) to 72 percent (in Nigeria). Likewise, suicide bombing is popular. Muslims who call it justified range from 13 percent (in Germany) to 69 percent (in Nigeria). These appalling numbers suggest that terrorism by Muslims has deep roots, and will remain a danger for years to come.
One in eight UK Muslims world wide 'support terrorist attacks.'
A recent European poll found that 65% of Palestinians "support Al-Qaeda actions in the USA and Europe." (Fafo-Norwegian-based NGO, in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 23, 2005) This strong support of those who would destroy America came in spite of hundreds of millions of dollars in annual US aid to the Palestinian alliance and was documented before the US announced a freeze in funding, after the election of the Hamas government.



A document, which was produced by officials from MI5 (British Intelligence) and the British Home and Foreign Offices, entitled "Young Muslims and Extremism" and drawn up for the prime minister by officials at the Home and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, also states that anecdotal evidence suggests that up to 13 per cent, or 208,000 of Britain's 1.6 million Muslims, defended the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, while only 26 per cent feel loyalty toward England. That is not a tiny minority.
Muslim support for terrorist attacks against civilians


Jordan: 88% sometimes or rarely, 11% never


Lebanon: 58% sometimes or rarely, 33% never


Pakistan: 44% sometimes or rarely, 35% never
Source: Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics


http://pewglobal.org/2005/07/14/islamic-extremism-common-concern-for-muslim-and-western-publics/  
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