Monday, January 18th, 2010

Credit card companies know how to stop a terrorist attack but Obama doesn’t?

How can VISA notice a suspicious charge to my account, freeze my card, call me up to let me know about it, and then mail me a brand new credit card within 3 business days…….yet the Obama administration and the entire US government (with trillions of dollars in unlimitted resources) can’t figure out how to keep a suspected terrorist who’s father warned officials of his sons intentions weeks ago, from boarding a plane with explosives and no passport?

I’m reading through all of the ridiculous answers to this question, and for the life of me I can’t figure out what GEORGE W BUSH has to do with Obama’s failure to prevent a known terrorist from boarding a plane with explosives and no passport. They might as well being saying "If Bush could screw up national security, it should be okay for Obama to screw it up too."

The bottom line is that if credit card companies and other private sectore organizations can pick up fraud on a credit card account then SURELY our government with all of it’s resources can figure out how to keep known terrorists off of airplanes with explosives! How you ask? SIMPLE! Put them on a now fly list and DO NOT LET THEM ENTER THE UNITED STATES! Better yet, when they try to board a plane why not have them arrested on the spot? Or are the rights of islamic terrorist suspects more importan than the safey of 200+ Americans trying to fly home for Christmas?

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11 Responses to “Credit card companies know how to stop a terrorist attack but Obama doesn’t?”

iceman Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 1:24 am

Yes, credit card companies are terrorists themselves. like the rest of the criminal Elites and big fat corps.
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Cons R Cowards Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 1:57 am

Obama wasn’t the President during the 9/11 attacks. Nice try, skippy.
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Proud Texan Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 2:02 am

Bush squandered resources and left the country less safe. Now President Obama has to come in and fix yet another Bush failure.
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Sibe Husky Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 2:29 am

Its amazing that Bush couldn’t figgure out that Osama Bin Laden was going to use airliners to attack the us when he was briefed on it over a month prior to 9/11
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Jerry Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 2:40 am

Private enterprise verse the Government and they want to run health care.
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Mad Mama Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 3:17 am

Why is it that their systems continue to be hacked and customer data taken if they are so smart?

Yeah, right – they can run the government, but they can’t keep hackers out of their own systems.
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I cant believe this website Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 3:41 am

Barry, the American dream slayer
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amg503 Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 4:31 am

I wouldn’t call a stolen Visa card a terrorist attack.

As for the other thing… That’s what happens when one intelligence agency doesn’t want to tell other intelligence agencies what they know. This problem predates Obama’s birth, much less his Administration. There’s a bigger problem here: It’s called "being able to take credit", and each law enforcement/intelligence agency has this same problem.

It’s probably since humans run these agencies, and humans work at these agencies, that this problem exists. Wanting to be able to take credit for something is a fault that we all have, and it just so happens that we just barely dodged the bullet this last time.
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brown9500v15 Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 4:44 am

Credit card companies are hardly efficient.

The reason their rates are so high is that they write off millions in losses due to fraud and hackers, and pass the costs on to the consumer.

For every one "suspicious charge" they catch, five get by them.

If Homeland Security had that kind of record, we would be looking at a serious, successful attack every month or so.
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babbie Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 4:59 am

Not to mention that Homeland Security didn’t even notify the pilot when they knew there was something hinky going on with this guy. At least the card company gives you a call to alert you to possible problems. Maybe we should be Visa in charge of national defense.
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Drew Bloodsd Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 5:28 am

I’m reading through all of the ridiculous answers to this question, and for the life of me I can’t figure out what GEORGE W BUSH has to do with Obama’s failure to prevent a known terrorist from boarding a plane with explosives and no passport. They might as well being saying "If Bush could screw up national security, it should be okay for Obama to screw it up too."

The bottom line is that if credit card companies and other private sectore organizations can pick up fraud on a credit card account then SURELY our government with all of it’s resources can figure out how to keep known terrorists off of airplanes with explosives! How you ask? SIMPLE! Put them on a now fly list and DO NOT LET THEM ENTER THE UNITED STATES! Better yet, when they try to board a plane why not have them arrested on the spot? Or are the rights of islamic terrorist suspects more importan than the safey of 200+ Americans trying to fly home for Christmas?
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