I can't seem to repeatedly wonder why all the terrorism "alerts" seem to revolve around airplanes. (so far, TSA hasn't stopped anyone).
Granted, when airplanes fall out of the sky ............... but then again, I've had this same conversation with FedEx crews concerning crew scheduling and duty hours hauling hazardous cargo (it does hit the ground along with all that aluminum, etc)...........
The latest underwear bomb furor, again, involves aircraft.
Why are most of the "terrorists" arrested in the US victims of FBI "stings" involving bombs ??
Just finished reading Stephen Hunter's "Soft Target" - - - small unit, firearms assault on a large shopping complex... Somewhat stereotypical characters and predictable plot-line ( he can do better than this).
-----got to say that Mr. Hunter shoots at the same range I do.
His is always the scenario that I've always imagined for a "grand" terrorist gesture against the US. A small group of people who are armed (with easily obtainable firearms) and simply concerned with killing. Especially on "Black Friday." It would end the holiday shopping season.
What all the sting victims seem to have in common is a desire to escape.
Face it folks, the home-grown "terrorists" here in the USA don't really want to die.
I remember the chaos caused by the Beltway sniper in 2003. People were afraid to get gasoline for fear of being shot. (Had a passenger recently who filled her tank 2 hours before one of the victims).
Once we start seeing folks setting themselves on fire at the mall or setting fire to homes in the Hasmptons or strapping dynamite to themselves and pulling the trigger, we will have joined the international community.
And now we learn that the latest "threat" was actually a 100% Saudi Intelligence (i.e. CIA) operation. A Saudi asset gave AQY the idea to do an airport bomb, helped AQY gather the materials, then actually carried out the bombing err well, walked into a police station with the bomb and gave himself up. It was a setup from beginning to end.
ReplyDeleteAnd they're all like that.
This isn't about terrorism. This is about the desire of the TLA's to make Americans crap in their undies in hopes that this will encourage Americans to give up more of their freedoms to the TLA's. It's nothing more than a rather sneaky coup against America, IMHO.
- Badtux the Cynical Penguin