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American Exceptionalism: Hokie Nation

The true spirit of America.

At a candlelight vigil, the Virginia Tech community begins the healing process.

During the vigil, Trey Perkins spoke with CNN's Paula Zahn:

    

ZAHN:  How is it that your life was spared?  How were you able to get away?

PERKINS: I have no idea. I mean, I think it's by grace of God. I just lay down. I put a couple desks on their side. I just laid there and thought about my family, prayed and just hoped that he would leave.

     ZAHN:  Then you see this response here tonight.  As a student here, what does that mean to you?

PERKINS: It's incredible. I mean, I knew it would be like this just because this community and how close everyone is. And how supportive we are of each other as Hokies.

Virginia Tech Shooting: Blame America.

In an oddly-titled blog entry, Women's Space/The Margins blames America for raising someone like Cho Sueng-Hui.

"Cho Sueng-Hui and the Virginia Tech Massacre: These are the Sons America Has Raised" [Editor: So these are two sons?]

This is the young man who shot 32 people dead, then shot himself, and injured many more.  His name was Cho Seung-Hui.   He was born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States with his mom, dad and sister in 1992, when he was eight years old.  The family had a sponsor in the U.S., probably a relative, when they immigrated.  He was a permanent legal resident of the U.S.  His home was in Centreville, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., and his folks supported the family by running a dry cleaning business.  Neighbors say they were nice people, hardworking.  He had a sister who attended Princeton.  He was quiet, liked to play basketball.

Not so fast. Any honest person knows that People of Color have perfected the art of "being in America" while not "being of America."

Many People of Color come to the United States out of ambition and desire for self-advancement yet simultaneously harbor a resentment towards Anglo-American society for being the source of that advancement.  People of Color and their professional advocates must address the forms of amerophobia and anglophobia that they tacitly transmit to their children.  Asian-Americans need to address uncomfortable questions about how they refer to the majority community behind closed doors.

I would suggest that Cheryl Lyndsey Seehof rewrite her offensive and treasonous blog title to something more accurate: Cho Sueng-Hi, Diversity strikes again.

Asian Netizens Worry about Racist Virginians.

Asians commenting at the 8Asians Blog (which has a header graphic with ten Asians in it!) have been thinking out aloud in the crudest ethnic stereotypes about "rural Virginia".

"Lex" is warning Asians in Virginia to get ready for a white mob:

Just imagine the racial outlash this is going to trigger. This is in rural Virginia for crying out loud. If I am Asian living in the area, I will be ready for crusade by the local militia.

"JSP" wants to make sure that while the authorities held back on reporting on the identity of the gunman, that we must make sure that all allegations of anti-Asian backlash get full media coverage:

I fear that yet another backlash may occur. If not nationally, then locally in Virginia. If there are any incidents racially motivated backlash towards asians, it should be reported.

Isn't this defamation of character towards the community that was just savaged?

Meanwhile, Lex isn't satisfied with defaming White Virginians, he goes after Michelle Malking for being a self-hating Asian.  Her crime? She points out the similarity between the VT Shooting and the 1991 Iowa Shooting involving another Asian. Malkin's post today echoes my suspicion about why the VT Police were dilatory in releasing the gunman's identity: the Asian-American Journalists Association has urged people not to refer to the gunman's ethnicity! The 1984 logic of multiculturalism strikes again.

Oliver Williamson sums it up best at 8Asians:

There shouldn’t be any racial backlash. Not in the U.S., anyway. Of course, if a similar crime had been committed in South Korea by a “white guy”, then there would be massive rallies in front of the U.S. Embassy and Seoul City Hall and A LOT of nastiness all over the country. And there would probably be annual marches on this date for the next several years. What will almost certainly happen is a massive effort by the Koreans to shift all the blame onto America, as they do with nearly everything else, including their own extreme materialism. Some may even go so far as to declare that Cho Seung-Hui was framed by the Americans.  I’m glad I’m not in South Korea anymore

So let's get this straight: An Asian murders 31 Americans (and foreign students) but 'they' are afraid of 'us' ?!

Meanwhile, the UK's Daily Mail reveals the identity of the Bizarre Love Triangle that may have sparked this rampage: the Asian gunman, a white (Jewish?) female, and a black male.

Hate Crimes in the USA: Update

The Vail Daily of Colorado reports: 'Hate Crimes' Rarely Prosecuted.

‘Ethnic intimidation’ is a crime in Colorado, but activists and police say it’s is not widely reported. 

By JK Perry, 1 September 2005

Letecia Harrison, a Hispanic activist, says teenagers fire racial slurs at each other more often than do adults in Eagle County. Hispanics born in the United States can be aggressive toward Mexican immigrants because of social and economic class differences, Harrison said, while whites and Hispanics often ignore one another.

A crime called “ethnic intimidation,” which was passed in 1988 and is dubbed a hate crime by many, was expanded recently by the state legislature to include sexual orientation.

[Editor: I don't see the connection between Letecia Harrison's claim that US-born Hispanics harrass Mexican "immigrants" and the journalist's reference to ethnic intimidation.  If Hispanics are intimidating other Hispanics, how is that a hate crime? ]

The Ethnic Intimidation Act makes it a crime to harass or attack a person based on their race, color, ancestry, religion or sexual orientation. An attack, considered a felony, is punishable by up to three years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Within the past four years, Vail police have filed ethnic intimidation charges just once. In January 2005, a man called the Polish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “polack.” The charge was later dropped because the slur was not considered egregious.

Avon Det. Mike Leake said the charge is not difficult to prove.

“If people are engaged in a harassment case verbally, and they make a statement referring to the person’s ethnic origin, then it’s ethnic intimidation,” Leake said. [Editor: Oh really? Someone should tell that to the NYPD about the Marine Park incident.]

Oftentimes, ethnic intimidation charges are filed to enhance other violations, said Krista Jaramillo, spokeswoman for Avon police. [Editor: Enhance or trump up charges? ] “It works essentially just like the domestic violence … it has to be in conjunction with something else,” Jaramillo said.

An FBI report found 82 hate crimes were committed in Colorado during 2003, although not every law enforcement agency in the county or state reports the statistic to the bureau.

Anglosphere Media: More Reports of Bias Crimes

Click on Graphic: Britons' Timeline during Hurricane Katrina [Source: Sunday Times, London]

Our Terrifying Ordeal  The Times of London: 5 Sept 2005

During seemingly endless days and sleepless nights, the British survivors’ fear of the hurricane’s destructive force was transformed into terror of the other survivors.

Mr Nelson, 21, and Jane Wheeldon, 20, told The Times how they and some 50 other foreigners — many of them British backpackers — were ordered by the US Army to gather together to protect themselves from resentful locals.

“The army told us to stick in a group and for the women to sit in the middle with the men around the outside and to be ready to defend ourselves,” Mr Nelson, from Epsom, Surrey, said. “Their urgency scared us. I sat on the outside, really scared by this point, sitting waiting for God knows what. We waited and waited, I didn’t sleep. A lot of the girls had been groped.”

Miss Wheeldon, from Carmarthen, South Wales, said that being inside the Superdome was terrifying and that she had been sexually harassed.

The “internationals”, as the army labelled the stranded tourists, were among the few white people in the stadium. Marked out by their skin colour and unfamiliar accents, they were verbally abused, while their luggage made them targets for robbery.

British Tourists tell of their Terror in the Rubble  Sunday Times, London: 4 Sept 2005

The girlfriend of one Briton was threatened with rape, and another said people trapped inside were becoming so desperate that one leapt to her death.

Will Nelson, 21, of Epsom, Surrey, sent an e-mail [Editor: Via Cellphone] to his family last Friday pleading for help. “Please can you try and contact the embassy, tell them that we really need their help with getting out of here — it’s turning into a war zone,” he wrote.

Yesterday he said troops in the Superdome had told Britons to use sharp objects such as scissors or tweezers to protect themselves from gangs. “At one point we had to carry a US national guard on a stretcher after he had been shot by looters outside,” he said.

Nelson was among about 40 foreigners escorted from the dome by the army for their safety, amid baying New Orleans residents furious at being left behind. His father, Keith Nelson, said: “I am seriously unimpressed with the American authorities, but not terribly impressed with the help, support and information we have been getting from the British authorities either.”

Nelson and his travelling companion Jennifer Sachs, 21, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, were evacuated to a hotel in Dallas, Texas, last Friday.

He said British consular staff only agreed to foot the hotel bill after complaints from parents.

Sachs’s father, Bruce, called New Orleans police the day before the hurricane struck, asking what his daughter should do. “I asked, ‘What is your plan?’ The police responded, ‘We have no plan.’ I was stunned. Those words are still ringing in my head. They abandoned the poor, the sick, the disabled, the elderly and most of the tourists.”

Ireland counts Dead & Missing in New Orleans Sunday Times, London: 4 Sept 2005

ONE Irishman is feared dead and another 10 Irish people are unaccounted for in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Conor Lally, 20, Patrick Clarke, 21, and Tomas McLoughlin, all from Blackrock, Co Louth, had gone to Myrtle Beach on J1 visas for the summer. When Katrina swept into New Orleans they sought refuge in the Superdome stadium, but later sent texts home to say they had witnessed rapes, gang warfare and fighting among looters.

“It is every parent’s worst nightmare,”said Jim Lally, Conor’s father. “My son went away as a 20-year-old boy and will probably return with the life experience of a 50-year-old man. This has been the worst week of our life, it was horrendous, but I just got a text from Dermot Ahern to say that the boys will be in Dublin at 8.30 in the morning.

"The boys are in great form...but it has been a harrowing experience and they may need counselling when they get home.”

Newlyweds Jean Wheatfield and Michael Leyden from Dromahair, Leitrim, who went to New Orleans for their honeymoon, were missing for five days before being airlifted to safety by the American military.

Married three weeks ago, their honeymoon was cut short when their hotel in the Latin Quarter was flooded. The couple say they were caught up in gun battles, threatened by gangs, witnessed a massive explosion and tried unsuccessfully to flee on foot.

Superdome 'Like a Concentration Camp' The Age of Melbourne: 2 Sept 2005

The New Orleans Superdome was meant to be a hurricane refuge, but those who sought shelter there described a lawless "concentration camp" where two children were reportedly raped and other refugees terrorised by rioters.

One 13-year veteran of the New Orleans police force said he and other officers who had been at the Superdome since Sunday were outraged at what they saw as a lack of preparation that allowed the situation in the covered stadium to deteriorate so badly and so quickly.

"This city knew something like this would happen a long time ago. They did nothing to prepare for this. They just rolled the dice and hoped for the best," said the officer who asked not to be identified.

"People were raped in there. People were killed in there. We had multiple riots," he said, adding there was no way to police the mass of up to 20,000 people suddenly thrown together in such a confined space and such horrific conditions.

Audrey Jordan vented her anger at New Orleans officials, saying they had known for years that a hurricane of Katrina's intensity could cause a breach in the low-lying city's water defences.

"They wanted to pay millions of dollars to rebuild a stadium, but they couldn't even fix the levee," Jordan said.

"We were treated like this was a concentration camp," she said of the Superdome.

"One man couldn't take it. He jumped over the railing and died."

'I don't hate white people anymore.'

Louis, 7, a victim of Hurricane Katrina draws in New Orleans [sic: Houston] at the Astrodome stadium. [Source: XtraMSN New Zealand & Reuters]

HOUSTON (Reuters) - In the last week, Joseph Brant lost his apartment, walked by scores of dead in the streets, traversed pools of toxic water and endured an arduous journey to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his hometown New Orleans.

On Sunday, he was praising the Lord, saying the ordeal was a test that ended up dispelling his lifelong distrust of white people and setting his life on a new course. He said he hitched a ride on Friday in a van driven by a group of white folks.

"Before this whole thing I had a complex about white people; this thing changed me forever," said Brant, 36, a truck driver who...is black.
"It was a spiritual experience for me, man," he said of the aftermath.

At the Astrodome in Houston, where 16,000 refugees received food and shelter, Rose McNeely took the floods as a sign from God to move away from New Orleans, where she said her two grown children had been killed in past years in gunfights.

"I lost everything I had in New Orleans," she said. "He brought me here because he knows."

Inside, Gerald Greenwood, 55, had collected a free Bible but sat watching a science fiction television program above the stands in an enclosed stadium once home to Houston's baseball and football teams. "This is the work of Satan right here," he said of the floods.

The Salvation Army conducted an outside religious service that included songs such as "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."

"Natural disaster is caused by the sin in the world," said Maj. John Jones, the group's area commander. "The acts of God are what happens afterwards ... all the good that happens."

Others took a different view, including Tim Washington, 42, who on Saturday waited at the New Orleans' Superdome to be evacuated. "God made all this happen for a reason. This city has been going to hell in a handbasket spiritually," he said.

Reports: Police Shot at Tourists trying to escape New Orleans.

"The Age" of Melbourne reports: Police Shoot at Tourists escaping New Orleans.

Frightened Japanese, European and American tourists told today how police fired over their heads to end their attempt to leave New Orleans.

Stranded since Hurricane Katrina hit the city on Monday, the 200 tourists were thrown out of their hotel on Thursday morning and said they were confronted by police as they attempted to get to buses to take them to safety.

Turned back to the centre of New Orleans, where looters were still roaming the lawless streets, the tourists huddled together on their suitcases under a pavilion next to the Mississippi River.

The hotel in the French Quarter told the tourists to leave saying their safety could no longer be guaranteed.

The tourists dragged their suitcases through a notoriously dangerous inner city neighbourhood, got drenched in a thunderstorm and were then turned back.

"All of a sudden, police cruisers rushed in with sirens blaring," said Patty Murphy, a 57-year-old saleswoman from Massachusetts. "They were shooting over our heads telling us to go back."

The tourists, one walking on crutches, then trekked back to the relative safety of the Canal Street ferry terminal which faces the police command centre.

At one stage they chartered buses to get them out of town only to be told the vehicles had been commandeered by the National Guard.

"We are tourists we don't know how to get around how to protect ourselves, it is like being in a jungle," said Ryo Gotanda of Japan, who studies in New York.

The worst part, she said, was walking through the tough inner-city neighbourhood. "People were staring at us, waving clubs. I was scared, for the first time in my life I thought I would die," said Gotanda.

Think Tribally, Act Locally.

Herald Sun on Sunday (Victoria State, Australia): Rape Threat to Our Women.

AUSTRALIAN survivors of Hurricane Katrina told last night of their dramatic escape from New Orleans and the unfolding civil disaster in city.

The group, joyful at fleeing the nightmare of the Louisiana city, lauded one of its members as a hero. Bud Hopes, of Brisbane, was praised for saving dozens of tourists as the supposed safe haven of the city's Superdome became a hellhole.

From the subtext of this report, it is clear that Mr Hope's genuine concern for people kicked in with a natural tribal instinct to look after 'one's own'.

Realising that foreigners were a target, Mr Hopes and the other Aussies gathered tourists from Europe, South America and elsewhere into one part of the building.

"There were 65 of us, so we were able to look after each other -- especially the girls who were being grabbed and threatened." Mr Hopes said.

He said they had organised escorts for the women when they had gone for food or to the toilet, and rosters to keep guard while others slept.

"We sat through the night just watching each other, not knowing if we would be alive in the morning."

It also looks like Americans aren't the only people that turn to prayer in times of crisis (i.e., there are no atheists in foxholes):

John McNeil, 20, of Brisbane, said the worst point had come after two days when soldiers had told them the power in the dome was failing and there was only 10 minutes worth of gas left.

"I looked at Bud and said, 'That will be the end of us'," Mr McNeil said.

"The gangs . . . knew where we were. If the lights had gone out we would have been in deep trouble. We prayed for a miracle and the lights stayed on."

In a related matter, Professor Ann Althouse, who is white, blogged after she had read about the National Guard rescuing white tourists from the Superdome:

My concern was with whether the National Guard were taking the problems of white people more seriously than those of black people.

Back at the Superdome - far from the ivory towers of Madiscon, Wisconsin - the Australians thank the National Guard for saving their lives:

Mr Hopes said the Australians owed their lives to a National Guard Staff Sgt Garland Ogden, who had broken the rules to get the tourists out of the dome, with 60 people being evacuated to a medical centre.

"We did some shifts at the hospital to help nurse the sick to say thank you. It was a real Aussie thing," he said.

The reality of the danger their son was in hit John MacNeil's parents very hard, but then Professor Althouse didn't have any of her family stuck in the Superdome:

Mrs McNeil broke down when she saw images of her son leaving New Orleans.

"There have been times during this past week when we didn't know if we would see him again," she said.

Mr McNeil said he could see a change in his son.

"They've been traumatised," he said. "I think they've witnessed several atrocities."

CNN WATCH: Anderson Cooper's "Race Realities"

CNN's Anderson Cooper is not only the host of his self-titled news broadcast, he is also the son of Gloria Vanderbilt (socialite and designer blue jeans magnate)  and an alumnus of the University of Hanoi, Vietnam (in addition to Yale).

02 September 2005's broadcast of "Anderson Cooper 360" from Waveland, Mississippi started out with a report from Rick Sanchez:

SANCHEZ: Congress has approved $10.5 billion in emergency funds for the stricken area. Leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus hailed the move while harshly criticizing the pace of the administration's response and expressing concern that the money would be put to the best use.

REP. CAROLYN KILPATRICK (D), MICHIGAN: I'm ashamed of America. I'm ashamed of our government. And as a member of the appropriation's committee, I want to make sure, yes, we should approve the $10.5 billion. But it's got to go right to the people.

We submit that Kilpatrick should stop her treasonous ranting and express outrage at how "her people" have behaved abominably in New Orleans.  She should be apologizing to victims of black hate crimes and apologizing to the rest of us for how they have embarrassed us in front of the international community.

Cooper kicks off the segment "Race Realities" with CNN correspondent Adaora Udoji:

UDOJI: Sixty-seven percent of New Orleans residents are black. Nearly 30 percent of the city's population lives below the poverty line without the money or the means to leave town despite dire warnings.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If we could have got out, we would have. We need help.

UDOJI: But it has been the proverbial elephant in the room and until today only a few members of the media have described what every viewer can see.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Almost every person we've seen from the families stranded on their rooftops waiting to be rescued to the looters to the people holed up in the Superdome are black and poor.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The great majority of the people we're seeing suffering right now are black and they are poor.

UDOJI: The city's mayor hasn't mentioned race but he knows the federal government can be quick to respond to disasters. [Editor: wink-wink from Udoji -- ie, if the victims had been white they would have been there in a flash.]

The Liberal-left media, increasingly made up of ethnics with an entitlement attitude and their white enablers, have been ignoring the true proverbial elephant: that a white underclass is being racially targeted by black mobs. Udoji ends her piece with an interesting tidbit of racial solidarity from an unidentified black female:

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm calling for them to take care of Americans regardless of their color. Significant numbers of people in the gulf are African Americans and we stand here because we are concerned about them.

UDOJI: Adaora Udoji, CNN, New Orleans International Airport.

If a white American had said that they were concerned about the status of underclass whites and foreign white tourists in New Orleans and that 'we stand here concerned about our people', then all hell would have broken out. Cooper then gives the floor to camera-hungry Jesse Jackson, fresh back from his meet-and-greet with Venezuela's Chavez. 

REV. JESSE JACKSON, PRES., RAINBOW-PUSH COALITION: It [race] is at least a factor. Today I saw 5,000 African Americans on the I-10 causeway desperate, perishing, dehydrated, babies dying. It looked like Africans in the hull of a slave ship. It was so ugly and so obvious. Have we missed this catastrophe because of indifference and ineptitude or is it a combination of the both? And, certainly I think the issue of race as a factor will not go away from this equation.

COOPER: So, you're saying if the majority of these people in the Astrodome or in the shelters were white you say the evacuation, what, would be done faster, would be done better?

[Editor: Jackson avoids answering with a yes or no.]
JACKSON:

We have an amazing tolerance for black pain and for too long after our slave ships landed in New Orleans, you know, we tolerated in the name of God slavery for 246 years (INAUDIBLE) for another 100 years. We have great tolerance for black suffering and black marginalization.

And today those who are suffering the most, in fact, in New Orleans certainly are black people and I think what I think pains me today we got seven more busloads of people out of New Orleans. There were about 5,000 people. All of them were African American and no busses had been there until we got -- they were sent to (INAUDIBLE).

So, I said where are the busses? They said they're on the way. Across the street were 150 busses empty because they have no place to take them, so we have no place, no plan of rescue or relocation or relief for these people

1. First, the United States has an amazing tolerance for pain inflicted on the white middle class and even more so on the white underclass by ethnic minorities. 
2. Second, slavery has got nothing to do with Katrina.
3. Third, Jackson is a bigot who ignores that there are underclass whites trapped in New Orleans and are now facing a double burden of being storm-weary and now an unprotected target for hate crimes.
4. Finally, Jackson asks about the buses. Anyone who has seen the AP photo of hundreds of NO School District buses submerged underwater knows by now that Mayor Nagin had buses when he needed them most, before the storm.

Surprisingly, Cooper nails him with a key fact:

COOPER: Reverend Jackson, though -- Reverend Jackson, you call that indifference. Others might just call that incompetence and we've seen incompetence in plenty of places. I've seen bulldozers sitting around for hours at a time because no one told them what to do. I'm not sure that race played a role in those. Is that really fair to say? Isn't the leadership of New Orleans predominantly African American? Isn't the mayor of New Orleans African American? Isn't he primarily responsible for the safety and well-being of his people?

JACKSON: No, the mayor of New York did not cut the budget on building a stronger levee to protect the city from facing a flood in light of a storm. That infrastructure is not what mayors do.

Even the focus on looting and looting of course is unacceptable but a few blacks stealing some televisions is not why people are dehydrating and perishing and parching and can't get rescue, relief or relocation. And so why is it that we as Americans are getting less U.S. relief than there was U.N. relief for the tsunami? So, you explain it.

Jackson stumbles as he tries to absolve Nagin from any responsibility and then even tells Americans that we should not be looking at the 'few black looters'.  Unfortunately, their crimes were not limited to "stealing some televisions".  They unleashed a crime wave of rape and race crimes that is staggering to comprehend.

Of course, we didn't expect Cooper to actually challenge Jackson with the facts of hate crimes committed against whites.  He is mostly concerned with homosexual rights and his prized Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for his ABC report about "gay high school athlete Corey Johnson."

Hate & Sex Crimes at the Superdome.

The front page of 02 September 2005's Daily News of New York shows a white man, having been beaten within an inch of his life by a black mob in the Superdome, being carried to paramedics.

Reuters carried reports of an elderly white couple that had collapsed from the heat in an "almost exclusively black refugee camp". [Editor: Media use of the word 'Refugee' is inappropriate to describe American citizens who are encamped in shelters. Dictionary.com: Refugee: an individual seeking refuge or asylum; especially : an individual who has left his or her native country and is unwilling or unable to return to it because of persecution or fear of persecution.]

As rations were finally doled out here on the day President Bush visited the devastated city, an elderly white woman and her husband collapsed from the heat.

"I had to walk two blocks to get here and I have arthritis and three ruptured discs in my back," said Selma Valenti, 80, as her husband lay beside her, being revived by a policeman in riot gear. The two had eaten nothing since Wednesday.

Valenti and her husband, two of very few white people in the almost exclusively black refugee camp, said she and other whites were threatened with murder on Thursday.

"They hated us. Four young black men told us the buses were going to come last night and pick up the elderly so they were going to kill us," she said, sobbing. "They were plotting to murder us and then they sent the buses away because we would all be killed if the buses came -- that's what the people in charge told us this morning."

Other survivors recounted horrific cases of sexual assault and murder.

Sitting with her daughter and other relatives, Trolkyn Joseph, 37, said men had wandered the cavernous convention center in recent nights raping and murdering children.

She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the young girl went missing from her parents inside the convention center.

"She was raped for four hours until she was dead," Joseph said through tears. "Another child, a seven-year old boy was found raped and murdered in the kitchen freezer last night."

Unconfirmed transcripts of NBC's "Today" show state that New Orleans' native Harry Connick Jr. gave an emotive tour of the city streets.  Following Connick's conversation with Katie Couric, NBC's Kerry Sanders reported on "Airport Triage" from New Orleans International Airport.  He briefly showed two white men who were recovering from attacks sustained at the Superdome, "their friend was beaten to death," by a black mob.  It is noted that the two men were edited out of the evening broadcast of "Airport Triage" on "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams".