SteyrAUG
04-14-16, 00:30
Well in May 30, 1972 anyway.
Otherwise known as the Lod Airport Massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod_Airport_massacre)
But the point is we think the of the Paris and Brussels attacks as something new and recent, but the reality is, it's been happening for a long time now and we seem to have learned virtually nothing from the experiences.
Of course it's easy to say, well yeah, Muslims have been trying to kill everyone else for centuries, nothing new. But there is a difference. Let's examine who was involved.
The actual shooters were members of the Japanese Red Army Faction who were recruited and trained by Palestinian terrorists known as Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations. So even before Munich, you had a group of Islamic terrorists dedicated specifically to international terrorism. Shouldn't be surprising, except maybe to people who gobble up facts from CAIR.
And who are their supporters in the indiscriminate murder of men, women and children in a public area of an airport (sound familiar?), leftists / marxist groups. So it shouldn't be too surprising that the same leftists / marxist types, especially those who support violent action to further their agenda, are willing to give tacit support to terrorists who subscribe the religious fundamentalism. It should be terribly ironic that two such divergent groups would find common cause in trying to kill everyone else, but sadly there is a pattern.
This wasn't Munich where a specific group targeted another specific group who represented a specific country and effort was taken to not harm anyone else. In fact this preceded Munich and was completely indiscriminate.
At 10 pm the attackers arrived at the airport aboard an Air France flight from Rome. Dressed conservatively and carrying slim violin cases, they attracted little attention. As they entered the waiting area, they opened up their violin cases and extracted Czech vz. 58 assault rifles with the butt stocks removed.
Immediately afterward, they began to fire indiscriminately at airport staff and visitors, which included a group of pilgrims from Puerto Rico, tossing grenades as they changed magazines. Yasuda was accidentally shot dead by one of the other attackers, and Okudaira moved from the airport building into the landing area, firing at passengers disembarking from an El Al aircraft before being killed by one of his own grenades, either due to accidental premature explosion or as a suicide. Okamoto was shot by security, brought to the ground by an El Al employee, and arrested as he attempted to leave the terminal.
Even worse, in the immediate aftermath, news magazine Der Spiegel speculated that funding had been provided by some of the $5 million ransom paid by the West German government in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 649 in February 1972.
So what lessons should have been learned? What should have changed?
Why are leftist radicals allowed to decide the immigration policies of Europe when it comes to Syrian refugees who are far more likely to be terrorists than people from Japan? Why are we permitting the same in the US? I would point out that we had groups in the US every bit as violent as the Red Army Faction, but I think everyone knows about the Weather Underground (a violent, radical leftist / marxist terrorist group) and how founding members Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who started out as "Students for a Democratic Society" (gee doesn't that sound nice?) hosted the start of Barrack Obama's political career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers_2008_presidential_election_controversy
Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, hosted a gathering at their home in 1995, where Alice Palmer introduced Obama as her chosen successor in the Illinois State Senate. Obama and Ayers' nine years of service on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago overlapped for three years from 1999 to 2002.
So it's now 2016, almost 45 years later, and the western world is still under attack by radical Islam and their leftists proxies. The only real difference is the radical leftists seem to be in charge politically, and the Muslim terrorist agenda is no longer just "a piece of land for themselves" but the destruction of as many innocents as possible.
Sadly few people seem to remember 9-11, I doubt you can find a high school student anywhere in the US who knows about the Lod Airport Massacre. But if they did learn about it, it would probably only strengthen their conviction that universal background checks and gun bans are the only solution to these kinds of tragedies.
It seems only Israel was able to figure it out. The last time a El Al jet was hijacked was in 1968 by the PFLP. The last significant attack concerning Israeli citizens taken hostage (once again by the PFLP-EO) was in 1976 and ended in Entebbe. The last attempted hijacking of an El Al plane was in September of 1970, it failed.
I know we aren't Israel, and we don't want to be. We have greater freedoms and they are worth defending. But we could learn a lot from these decades old events and how Israel seems to have addressed them. The reality is we have given up a lot of freedom without gaining any meaningful security.
Just wish we'd get our shit together before somebody realizes they can roll a pressure cooker bomb into the common areas of Los Angeles International Airport.
Otherwise known as the Lod Airport Massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod_Airport_massacre)
But the point is we think the of the Paris and Brussels attacks as something new and recent, but the reality is, it's been happening for a long time now and we seem to have learned virtually nothing from the experiences.
Of course it's easy to say, well yeah, Muslims have been trying to kill everyone else for centuries, nothing new. But there is a difference. Let's examine who was involved.
The actual shooters were members of the Japanese Red Army Faction who were recruited and trained by Palestinian terrorists known as Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations. So even before Munich, you had a group of Islamic terrorists dedicated specifically to international terrorism. Shouldn't be surprising, except maybe to people who gobble up facts from CAIR.
And who are their supporters in the indiscriminate murder of men, women and children in a public area of an airport (sound familiar?), leftists / marxist groups. So it shouldn't be too surprising that the same leftists / marxist types, especially those who support violent action to further their agenda, are willing to give tacit support to terrorists who subscribe the religious fundamentalism. It should be terribly ironic that two such divergent groups would find common cause in trying to kill everyone else, but sadly there is a pattern.
This wasn't Munich where a specific group targeted another specific group who represented a specific country and effort was taken to not harm anyone else. In fact this preceded Munich and was completely indiscriminate.
At 10 pm the attackers arrived at the airport aboard an Air France flight from Rome. Dressed conservatively and carrying slim violin cases, they attracted little attention. As they entered the waiting area, they opened up their violin cases and extracted Czech vz. 58 assault rifles with the butt stocks removed.
Immediately afterward, they began to fire indiscriminately at airport staff and visitors, which included a group of pilgrims from Puerto Rico, tossing grenades as they changed magazines. Yasuda was accidentally shot dead by one of the other attackers, and Okudaira moved from the airport building into the landing area, firing at passengers disembarking from an El Al aircraft before being killed by one of his own grenades, either due to accidental premature explosion or as a suicide. Okamoto was shot by security, brought to the ground by an El Al employee, and arrested as he attempted to leave the terminal.
Even worse, in the immediate aftermath, news magazine Der Spiegel speculated that funding had been provided by some of the $5 million ransom paid by the West German government in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 649 in February 1972.
So what lessons should have been learned? What should have changed?
Why are leftist radicals allowed to decide the immigration policies of Europe when it comes to Syrian refugees who are far more likely to be terrorists than people from Japan? Why are we permitting the same in the US? I would point out that we had groups in the US every bit as violent as the Red Army Faction, but I think everyone knows about the Weather Underground (a violent, radical leftist / marxist terrorist group) and how founding members Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who started out as "Students for a Democratic Society" (gee doesn't that sound nice?) hosted the start of Barrack Obama's political career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers_2008_presidential_election_controversy
Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, hosted a gathering at their home in 1995, where Alice Palmer introduced Obama as her chosen successor in the Illinois State Senate. Obama and Ayers' nine years of service on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago overlapped for three years from 1999 to 2002.
So it's now 2016, almost 45 years later, and the western world is still under attack by radical Islam and their leftists proxies. The only real difference is the radical leftists seem to be in charge politically, and the Muslim terrorist agenda is no longer just "a piece of land for themselves" but the destruction of as many innocents as possible.
Sadly few people seem to remember 9-11, I doubt you can find a high school student anywhere in the US who knows about the Lod Airport Massacre. But if they did learn about it, it would probably only strengthen their conviction that universal background checks and gun bans are the only solution to these kinds of tragedies.
It seems only Israel was able to figure it out. The last time a El Al jet was hijacked was in 1968 by the PFLP. The last significant attack concerning Israeli citizens taken hostage (once again by the PFLP-EO) was in 1976 and ended in Entebbe. The last attempted hijacking of an El Al plane was in September of 1970, it failed.
I know we aren't Israel, and we don't want to be. We have greater freedoms and they are worth defending. But we could learn a lot from these decades old events and how Israel seems to have addressed them. The reality is we have given up a lot of freedom without gaining any meaningful security.
Just wish we'd get our shit together before somebody realizes they can roll a pressure cooker bomb into the common areas of Los Angeles International Airport.