Comments on: ‘Fear mongering,’ little substance in Hagedorn’s terror ‘white paper’

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:09:10 +0000

They hate us because of our lutefisk.

By: Nachman

Nachman — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:57:42 +0000

You guys will finally get a clue when the Islamists are at war with us when they start flying aircraft into buildings, shooting up recruitment centers, running over college students, planning a massacre at an army base, actually massacring soldiers at an army base, and attempting to blow up an aircraft flying into Detroit.

Oh wait…they already have.

By: pudgmo

pudgmo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:25:37 +0000

Thanks all, great posts!
Tim wins though…
“Then I have my wife start the car in case they have booby-trapped it.”
I’m still laughing at that.

By: majii

majii — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:13:15 +0000

Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! A white paper! Hagedorn wouldn’t know a white paper if it bit him on his butt! I’ve actually written white papers. Hagedorn’s paper is a position paper, intent on advancing his own agenda to garner support in the form of votes. It is a shame that he and so many others like him are sent to Congress. He doesn’t acknowledge President Obama’s successes on fighting terrorism because the president chooses not to publicize and politicize them. The U.S. has successfully neutralizes/killed terrorists in Sudan, Yemen, Pakistan, and the U.S. since Obama became president, and it’s amazing that the people who are paid to know this don’t know it. They also refuse to acknowledge that under the G.W. Bush Administration Jose Padilla, Richard Reid, John Walker Lindh, Zacharias Moussaoui, the Lackawanna 6, and the Blind Cleric, and others, were tried successfully and convicted in civilian courts and are presently confined in SuperMax prisons on American soil. We really should be sending more qualified people to Congress. Really, because these folks are embarrassing all of us.

By: Eric Ferguson

Eric Ferguson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:57:03 +0000

What’s wrong with Tim Walz, following the Constitution instead of the whims of ignorant righties?

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:33:27 +0000

It sure is a good thing that we’re fighting a war on terror. Folks like Hagedorn really remind us why Americans like Walz and Obama are on the side of the terror, since Hagedorn is helping the terrorists create more terror in every rhetorical way possible. Without Hagedorn, we would not be looking with frightened eyes at every person who looks a little bit differently from ourselves, like the computer tech from Trinidad I once met who had a child hide between a door and the wall while he was fixing his mother’s computer or someone I met from India who was told that “terrorists” weren’t allowed in the local golf course. Without folks like Hagedorn, we might actually treat these people like immigrants coming to America to live out the American dream. Heaven forbid these foreigners come to love America and desire to defend it, like we have!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:13:43 +0000

I, for one, am glad that Hagedorn is grabbing the “terrorist bull” by the horns.

I have not been to Mankato or Blue Earth area for a decade, and now I know why- it is filled with young men from Islamic dominated countries who have no reason to come here! The people of southern Minnesota live in fear. I bet Obama has a daily briefing memo that reads “Bin Laden determined to strike North Mankato”.

Every morning I peak through my curtains to see if any terrorists are lurking. Then I have my wife start the car in case they have booby-trapped it. Then I drive looking in the rear-view mirror in case the terrorists are following me. I lock my office door and push a chair against it.

Thank you, Mr. Hagedorn, for giving voice to the fears of Minnesotans. We aren’t shivering from the cold, we’re shivering because that is what cowards and idiots do.

By: ZNOFOB

ZNOFOB — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:46:14 +0000

This elected piece of excrement represents the republican party I ran away from as if my hair were on fire a couple years back. Where do they find guys like this rethuglican?

The constitution. Follow it…?

Bertrand, can you help me here?

Bertrand:

“Few men can succeed in being creative rather than possessive in a world which is wholly built on competition, where the great majority would fall into utter destitution if they became careless as to the
acquisition of material goods, where honor and power and respect are given to wealth rather than to wisdom, where the law embodies and consecrates the injustice of those who have toward those who have not.
In such an environment even those whom nature has endowed with great creative gifts become infected with the poison of competition. Men combine in groups to attain more strength in the scramble for material goods, and loyalty to the group spreads a halo of quasi-idealism round
the central impulse of greed. Trade unions and the Labor party are no more exempt from this vice than other parties and other sections of society; though they are largely inspired by the hope of a radically better world. They are too often led astray by the immediate object of securing for themselves a large share of material goods. That this
desire is in accordance with justice, it is impossible to deny; but something larger and more constructive is needed as a political ideal, if the victors of tomorrow are not to become the oppressors of the day after. The inspiration and outcome of a reforming movement ought to be freedom and a generous spirit, not niggling restrictions and
regulations.”

Thanks, Bertrand! You’re right! As usual.

Hagerdorn is just a redneck racist white guy. Hey, I can ante in on that wagon…probably win, too.

Since when did the freedoms we used to enjoy become the burdens of security to save me from…what, a terrorist?

I am still waiting to be struck by lightning – twice. It is just as feasibly possible by odds as any terror attack.

Please, don’t save me. I don’t need any government sanctioned “saving”. Ask any liberal here who hates my writings…they can’t wait for a terrorist to attack me…