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Two amatuers lock down entire U.S. city.

POSTED BY: oldenglanddry
UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 18:10
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MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, April 19, 2013 11:34 PM

Well the evidence is you can do lots of damage very quickly with very few people and little resources and there isn't a lot authorities can do.

AURAPTOR

Friday, April 19, 2013 11:42 PM

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Well the evidence is you can do lots of damage very quickly with very few people and little resources and there isn't a lot authorities can do.

Which is exactly what everyone's said, since 9-11. Sorta amazing that this hasn't happened more, though we know it's not for lack of trying. Some 30+ plots have been foiled in the past 10 years.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

AURAPTOR

Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:26 AM

Suspect # 2 still in the boat, cornered, refuses to give up. L.E. apparently tried to rattle him w/ some flash / bangs, but no dice.

Any chance this guy bleeds out, while L.E. plays it so cautiously, and ends up dead anyways ?

eta: Must have grabbed him as he passed out. In cuffs , off to the hospital.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

AURAPTOR

Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:57 AM

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

OLDENGLANDDRY

Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:35 AM

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I wonder what would happen if some "real" terrorists decided to launch a coordinated attack.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22213651

My thoughts too.

I first question the decision to wait almost a full day to release the photos of the 2 brothers to the public.

Which , of course, also gave ample time to the conspiricy theorists to plaster the internet with photos and concoct their mkultra-death squad nonsense.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:08 PM

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mkultra-death squad

Ha ha.. I hadn't heard that one.

Alas, T.S. Elliot may have been right, when he called April the cruelest month.

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

KWICKO

Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:21 PM

So I'm kind of wondering...

Why the hell didn't we just use some drones and fire a handful of Hellfire missiles into the neighborhood where we suspected these dudes were?

"I have no real clue of what you're speaking." - AuRaptor.

"Yes. I was wrong. I am sorry." - AuRaptor.

Note to self: Mr. Raptor believes that women who want to control their reproductive processes are sluts.

Reference thread: http://beta.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=51196

NIKI2

Saturday, April 20, 2013 3:33 PM

Good to know, OldEng, I'll keep that in mind. I'm long in the habit of calling you guys Brits, partly 'cuz I don't know any other diminutive (there's "Ozzie" and "Canuck", but what do we call you? "Limey" doesn't sound friendly, to me at least!) and partly I guess 'cuz it "covers a multitude of sins" as it were. ;o)

But I'm glad you're here; not being xenophobic or racist, like some here, I really appreciate perspectives outside the U.S. Over many long years on the internet, I learned ages ago that I get a lot more news from my friends outside the states, and learn a lot our censorship and propaganda denies me.

I don't think you can ever do anything to completely STOP terrorists. They don't wear uniforms, etc., and America is such a gigantic country, so populous and such a target, I think they do a pretty good job of stopping things--most of which I'll bet we never even hear about. Unquestionably you have more history dealing with terrorism than we do, but you don't have one "umpteenth" the targets, the area or the population to deal with. I don't compare the two, myownself, and of course there's the availability of guns....

OLDENGLANDDRY

Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:21 PM

Call us "Brits", thats fine. I dont want to mislead you, there are plenty of Englishmen who call themselves British, but few Scots, Welsh or Irish do so I tend not to.

OLDENGLANDDRY

Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:30 PM

This is an interesting turn;

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/04/
dzhokhar_tsarnaev_and_miranda_rights_the_public_safety_exception_and_terrorism.html?wpisrc=most_viral