Everyone traveling by passenger plane knows Richard Reid as the Shoe Bomber. Reid tried to blow up himself and the jet he was on with a shoe bomb.
As protection against future shoe bombers, our government makes us take off our shoes before boarding passenger flights.
Reid failed to blow up the plane. Thankfully! He had made it through security. The plane was in mid flight. He got out his matches and tried to light the fuse for the bomb. For some reason, he couldn't get the fuse to burn. His terrorist act was thwarted by a defective fuse.
However, Saxby Chambliss, the infamous draft dodging Republican Senator from Georgia, says the Patriot Act stopped Richard Reid from killing a couple hundred people.
I have written my Senator, Mr. Chambliss, and asked him about this misinformation. I clarified my status as a citizen and as a student on North Georgia College and State University.
He, his office, and all the King's minions couldn't be bothered with putting pen to paper or even thanking me for writing.
Chambliss is mentally ill or ... he's willing to lie to his voters.
What about it, Senator Chambliss? How did the Patriot Act stop Richard Reid from blowing up an airplane in midair?
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The exact language used by Senator Chambliss"
"Another potentially devastating attack was averted when Richard Reid, the so-called “shoe bomber,” was foiled in his attempt to detonate a bomb on American Airlines Flight 63 during flight. Reid was charged as a trained terrorist for this attempted terrorist attack. He pled guilty to all charges and was sentenced to life imprisonment on January 30, 2003."
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