Set the paranoia control to maximum...

Argh. Every time I read one of these, my first thought is the bad guys must be laughing their asses off. The cost of this little security scare (which is duplicated every week somewhere in the country) must be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least.

To make this country sufficiently secure from the possible mechanations of a few maniac towelheads will either paralyze us, or change our entire way of life. I'm not sure I want to live like that.

Option One: Establish a cordon around the middle east - only food goes in, only oil comes out. When they get hungry, oil prices will drop quite a bit. If we want to "save" our pals in Israel, evacuate, say, Nebraska and let them have it.

Option Two: The first time a hair on the head of an American is touched, we lob a tactical nuke at the home city of the terrorist involved. Let THEIR government figure out how to stop them. If they learn from the first incident, problem solved. if not, the issue will go away eventually as we run out of middle east....

I assume you're not being serious, but just in case:

This won't work for the simple reason that many countries where terrorists come from aren't in the middle east. Examples include Libya, Afghanistan, Indonesia, the UK and France. Timothy McVeigh was from New-York IIRC.

The 'Israel' solution is interesting. Around the turn of the 20th century the British government discussed establishing a 'Jewish homeland' in various parts of its empire. For various reasons it never caught on.

A kid born and bred in the UK already mounted a suicide attack on Israel. Sooner or later a kid born and bred in the UK may mount a terrorist attack on the USA. Much as I deplore this, I don't think nuking London would do much to help.

Thanks,

VNE

Isn't that how a big piece of the problem got started?

-dave w

It seems to have been decided, on our behalf, that we do... It's like we been invaded and conquered by the New Securitarians from Our Government, except they didn't have to go anywhere or shoot anyone to take over. (Frankly, I'm more worried about _them_ than the Maniac Towelheads...)

-dave w

The official releases by TRA and NAR Presidents do that as well re ATF.

Jerry

I have never heard more people talk seriously about moving to a different country than in the past year or two.

I wonder how ex-pat rates are overall?

This might be the first USA Coup in a historical analysis of today's events.

Couldn't hurt :)

God save the queen.

You just reminded me I'm a republican ;) Go right ahead...

VNE

Forget?

Someone agreed to it and has been installing it ever since.

At least the presidents of TRA/NAR haven't been stuck with $40k fines.

Talk about stupid: they find something suspicious, don't track down the owner to find out what it is, and wait for 2 hours before they shut down the airport. If it had been something real, the people responsible would be far away in 2 hours.

And why shut down at all. You found something suspicious. Quarranteen it and move on. Do they shut down every airport every time someone thinks there might be a suspicious object in a package?

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Yes.

Stupid, eh?

Have you read the latest Model Rocketeer in which NAR President Bundick declares in public and in writing that ONLY SU motors are ATF exempt?

The consequences of that single statement were to waste most of the $350,000 invested in the lawsuit, to kill hundreds of thousands of dollars in commercial business.

My fine is a pittance by comparison.

Jerry

They seem to be Oficially Afraid not to do just that.

-dave w

They sure seem to in Philadelphia...

Jerry Irvine wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

Do you think more people want to leave the US than enter?

If they do, does that mean the original owners get our land back? ; )

Randy = Cherokee

The point is fairness and liberty are dead. The most unreasonable outcome is what should be assumed.

I wouldn't go that far. Plenty of places are still far worse (and full of poor people).

But capital and high level jobs are leaving.