Politico – by EMILY SCHULTHEIS
A candidate for Congress in Georgia said earlier this year that he’d rather see another terrorist attack on the United States than have Transportation Security Agency screenings at airports.
Bob Johnson, a doctor and Republican candidate in Georgia’s solidly-red 1st District, said at a February candidate forum that the TSA is “indoctrinating” Americans.
“Now this is going to sound outrageous, I’d rather see another terrorist attack, truly I would, than to give up my liberty as an American citizen,” he said, according to a video clip obtained by POLITICO. “Give me liberty or give me death. Isn’t that what Patrick Henry said at the founding of our republic?”
He criticized the TSA for “indoctrinating generations of Americans to walk through a line and be prodded and probed by uniform personnel, agents of the government, like sheep.”
In a statement to POLITICO, Johnson apologized for the comment but reiterated his criticism of the TSA.
“In the heat of the moment, while making the point that I would much rather fight the enemy than our federal government, I said something stupid and should have chosen my words more carefully,” he said. “…As a Constitutional conservative, it angers me that we are giving up our liberty to the bureaucratic TSA and spying on our own people in the name of false security and that has to stop.”
Johnson faces a crowded field in the May 20 primary, including state Sen. Buddy Carter, farmer Darwin Carter, state Rep. Jeff Chapman, physician Earl Martin and businessman John McCallum. The candidates are running to succeed GOP Rep. Jack Kingston, who is giving up his seat to run for Senate. If no candidate earns 50 percent of the vote on May 20, the top two will compete in a runoff.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/bob-johnson-georgia-tsa-106393.html#ixzz3129tL5Pj
““In the heat of the moment, while making the point that I would much rather fight the enemy than our federal government, I said something stupid and should have chosen my words more carefully,” he said. “…As a Constitutional conservative, it angers me that we are giving up our liberty to the bureaucratic TSA and spying on our own people in the name of false security and that has to stop.””
Oh puhleeasse! Why the need to re-phrase your statement? We all know what you meant and we all feel the same way. No point in hiding it or watering it down anymore. It’s not like it makes a damn bit of difference in your chances of winning the election anyways, as voting doesn’t matter, since the candidate has already been decided by the elite way ahead of time.
yep
He’s saying this because he’s a candidate. When he’s in office he’ll insist that the TSA should search every home for domestic terrorists.
Candidates are just as guilty as those in office, because they wouldn’t have been chosen to run for office (by AIPAC) unless they were already sucking up to the Zionists.
“I’d ‘rather see’ terror attack than TSA screening”
There is really no valid reason why we should have to see either of these events.
Id rather see terrorist attacks on tsa agents…?
Did I get that right?
“Give me liberty or give me death. Isn’t that what Patrick Henry said at the founding of our republic?”
He got it right. Rare for a politician these days.
REPUBLIC.