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Liberty Star
09-09-2009, 06:00 PM
Fox news reported today that "terrorism is rearing its ugly head again" and noted that it's a reminder that our skies are still vulnerable to threats after a Bible carrying religious fanatic hijacked Mexican airline Boeing jet with 104 people on board.

Q1. Did Fox news go overboard in reporting of Mexican jet hijacking news?

Q2. Do some people really believe that they can expedite Christ's return by using threat of violence or terror?



Fanatic hijacked Mexican plane after 'revelation'


By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Writer – 28 mins ago

MEXICO CITY – A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City on Wednesday, police said. All passengers and the crew were released unharmed.

The Bible-carrying hijacker used a juice can he said was a bomb to hold the 103 passengers and crew on the tarmac for more than an hour. Masked police stormed the aircraft with their guns drawn and escorted several handcuffed men away without firing a shot. Police later said there was only one hijacker.

Jose Flores, 44, told investigators he hijacked Aeromexico Flight 576 after a divine revelation, according to Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna. Flores said Wednesday's date — 9-9-09 — is the satanic number 666 turned upside down.

Flores, speaking to reporters after he was detained, said he took control of the aircraft with "a juice can with some little lights I attached."

"Christ is coming soon," he added, smiling.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090909/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_hijacking

Liberty Star
09-09-2009, 06:14 PM
This is interesting strange connection:

Quote:

Jose Flores, 44, told investigators he hijacked Aeromexico Flight 576 after a divine revelation, according to Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna. Flores said Wednesday's date — 9-9-09 — is the satanic number 666 turned upside down.


Quote:

June 6, 2006

666: Armageddon, Iran and Bush Foreign Policy

June 6, 2006 (6/6/06) is the 62nd anniversary of D-Day, one of the most glorious - and bloody days - in American military history. But as the American Prospect reports, for evangelical leaders close to President Bush such as Texas Pastor John Hagee, the number 666 has another important meaning for the future of the United States. 666 is the number to be borne by the Anti-Christ in the coming battle of Armageddon, which if Hagee has his way, will fought against Iran.

As I wrote back in May ("Bush, Iran and the Second Coming"), key figures in the radical religious right see Israel and end-of-times conflict with Iran as the fulfillment of biblical prophesy contained in the Book of Revelation. (That piece also highlighted a parallel end-times bellicosity surrounding the return of the Mahdi among President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Shiite clerics of Iran.)

But Hagee is at the bleeding edge of a Christian Zionist movement seeking to accelerate the Second Coming of Christ and the final battle in Israel. Since the 1990's, Hagee and his group CUFI (Christians United for Israel) has tried without success to breed the "red heifer," the perfect calf that will signal the Second Coming." As Sarah Posner writes in the American Prospect, "for Hagee's new project - agitating for war with Iran - his influence over Washington is less important than his influence over his audience." His book Jerusalem Countdown sold over 500,000 copies. And as Posner reports, Hagee is not alone:


http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000408.htm.

dr. hfn
09-09-2009, 06:38 PM
kill your tv.

phill4paul
09-09-2009, 06:43 PM
Religious fanaticism is religious fanaticism. If it is the cause of something newsworthy then it has a place in the story.
When something happens people naturally ask why it happened. They just reported on the apparent reasoning.

Liberty Star
09-09-2009, 06:46 PM
I have incraesed my TV crap consumtion from less than hour a week to 2-3 hours a week lately and there's always a drama going on thanks to Obama and GOP and media circus. It's a waste time for the great part.

PaulaGem
09-09-2009, 06:47 PM
Religious fanaticism is religious fanaticism. If it is the cause of something newsworthy then it has a place in the story.
When something happens people naturally ask why it happened. They just reported on the apparent reasoning.

But there have always been nutjobs that do things like this. Why call it "terrorism"?

Liberty Star
09-09-2009, 06:52 PM
But there have always been nutjobs that do things like this. Why call it "terrorism"?

Neil Cavuto (or Fox teleprompter author to be more accurate) may have been trying to push some fear and war agenda thinking that fear fatigue had calmed down and people were getting too focussed on eceonomy, but he may have jumped the gun too soon.

phill4paul
09-09-2009, 06:58 PM
Those on the plane I'm sure felt terrorized. It's sensationalism relevant for the current times, but the reporting was pertenent.


kill your tv.