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I'm crossing my fingers and really hoping that means these guys aren't going to get jail time. If one person knows, more people know and it looks pretty damn good for them. The problem becomes that it is not in the best interests of various mayors and so forth to reveal it. They'll probably still get slapped with a hefty fine (that they don't deserve).

Finally removed the stick from your a**, eh?

'bout time. domokun

Horseshit. The first responders reacted in the proper manner. I have family members who are military and first responders so I've got a decent idea of what they have to deal with. If a call comes in of something suspicious they have to check it out. They did and determined that these items were not a threat.

These items were placed in areas that were crucial parts of the cities infrastructure. Key targets for attack. As mentioned Boston is also a city where a plane left involved in the 2001 attack, meaning there were at the time terrorist cells in operation there. Boston also has a great deal of history. It's not a prime stategic target by any means, but it's fairly close to one of the top three. (Top three in order: Norfolk, Washington DC, and New York.)

And even after one of the devices was determined to be a glorified Lite-Bright, the first responders still had to check them all out. This lesson comes to us courtesy of the Irish Republican Army who were known for setting dummy bombs throughout cities to determine the patterns of city's crisis teams. They would do this and after enough false alarms, then the real attack would hit.

All the other cities that "didn't make a big deal" of this, should have. They have displayed themselves as targets to everyone paying attention to our media, and the enemies of this country, I can assure you, are.

Turner Broadcasting is looking at about a million dollars in fines. The two guys arrested are looking at 5 years in jail. The way they were acting at the hearing I would say hit them with the full time. They've since issued statements being much more respectful to the situation. I would not say now that they should serve the full amount. I'd say about 6 months would be fair.

And yes the terrorists won. They win every day someone buys into the media bias against the current administration. The one that's been working to clean up the mess of the previous one. They win whenever Jane Fonda or some other misinformed shmuck gives a microphone in front of their face and screams that America is wrong in everything it does. They smile every day the chants get louder to pull our troups out knowing that they just need to hold on a little bit longer.

And then they can kill anyone who tried to support the growth of Democracy in Iraq. Women's right to vote there will be gone. They get on about their business of wiping Israel off the map. And they won't be stopping with them.

He's more machine than man! crying

(Oh, and I'm glad you're okay and stuff... ninja heart )

No, everyone should not be that paranoid, but the authorities should. People do need to be aware of what's going on around them. I am not advocating people panicking when they see something strange. They should if they do notice something contact the proper authories and let them be the judge of it.

One day would be one day too much. This is along the same lines as those warnings, "take baby out of stroller before folding." One person is stupid enough not to use common sense and suddenly it's the company's fault for not telling people that folding babies in strollers is a bad idea.No, it not. Those guys were putting objects on highways, bridges and there was even one near a hospital without permission. At the very lease they're littering and causing a public nuisance. They want to treat this as a joke. Lock 'em up for a little while and see what they think then. Their actions were illegal and should be punished

The current administration is a joke, they should be made fun of, constantly.
I have never felt afraid in this country, I have never felt terrified. The only people telling me to feel terrified are the government and people who see terrorists under their beds. And all they do is make my life more irritating.
Terrorists win because people are terrified. I refuse to believe that every shadow holds a bomb.History will view this administration as the one that beat back the crazies. The reason you don't feel afraid is because they are doing their job.


Oh that's great. Let's talk about Isreal and their secret police and their own terrorist actions. Let's talk about the birth of Isreal, how they were created with land seized from the surrounding countries, 'scuse me, "spoils of war" and were set up in an area known to be hostile to jews as a way of getting them out of the way.
Hell, let's talk about democracy in Iraq, where the United States went in to a stable government and destroyed it, claiming it would be better for the people because now they'd have democracy, instead of saying that it was a reactionary move. And they had no plan for once they got rid of Saddam, they figured democracy would just sort of happen. Nevermind that Iraq is a collection of tribes and factions that have been warring since time immemorial. Or that many of these factions see this as a prime oppertunity to seize power by whatever means necessary.
The situation they went into was bad, let's not sugar coat it. But let's not foget that the USA helpd put Saddam in power in the first place, thinking he'd be a nice biddable leader to their wishes.
You want women to vote? I want women to live. It's created a more unstable situation than ever, and now they're talking about invading Saudi Arabia. Iraq certainly isn't happy with that, the Primie Minister objected, the country is in turmoil and the US now wants to use it as a beachea to launch ANOTHER badly planned invasion? Condoleza then went on national TV and said this Prime Minister was living on Borrowed Time. That sounds super friendly.
You read my other posts? Rendition has been going of for ages, and those people dissapear until the United States give them back. They kidnap them, take away years of their lives, find nothing, let them go and never apologize. The ends justify the means, and that means sending people to third world countries with no torture laws and then torturing them, never letting them know WHY they're being tortured.
I got called in after 9/11 to verify myself because I wasn't born in the states. So don't you ******** tell me that any of this is right, that it's ok to make everyone be afraid all the time and to suggest that anything other than fear is the natural state we should be in right now and the proper response to anything "unkown."
This country is getting rediculous.
But YOU may go ahead and be afraid of the lite-brites.Wow, you make it sound like everything was just fine over there until we got there. The genocide and rape rooms didn't get much air play on the news. Yeah, the US put Saddam in power and we took him out of power. And we're planning on dealing with Iran, not Saudi. They want nukes and they want to use them. That can't happen. And how was Iraq badly planned? We toppled the government in record time and and now dealing the insurgency. People seem upset that still wasn't over in six months. These things take years. The end is in sight in the Iraq theater and people want to stop short? That's rediculous.

Yeah, this country is being rediculous. We elected a leader and then b***h when he leads.

I don't think the end is in sight at all in Iraq. The U.S. is trying to force Western-style democracy on a country that obviously isn't ready for it and is resenting them for telling it how to govern itself.

That's very true. Countries that are forced governments upon them have a history of hating it. The thing is that democracy doesn't even work for everyone, countries have to find their own ways to work without getting a lot of outside intervention. Europe was like that during a cascade of revolutions. France had dozens of them in a ten year period, kings going on the throne and off until they found a system that the people liked.
Britain has gone and slowly modified their government over centuries. Russia is still working in the wake of communism and the legacey of organizations like the KGB. The West hasn't even totally figured out democracy, what right does anyone have to force that system on anyone else?