Originally posted by: alien42
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Apperently you peeps do not pay much attention to the news.
People leave vehicles bombs (cars/buses/bikes) around to be set off.
Some are remote detonations, others are suicides.
A moped with fuel in its tank as a slice of C4 under the seat could cause damage and death. for an imaginative bomber, there are plenty of places where explosives could be located in such a vehicle.
The fact that it looks innocent makes it all that much easier to insert close to the target.
what?
i know, lets just blow up anything sitting around. that will teach those terrorists a lesson
The irony is that if a private citizen did that, they would certainly be locked up and labeled a "potential future terrorist". So in effect, it's the current authoritarian state that are really the terrorists at work here.
That's true, actually - if you think about it, the whole point of "terrorism" is to instill fear into a civilian populace for political means, and by the police actions in this matter, they are serving to perpetuate that fear.
I was just reading in the paper, about recent police efforts in counter-terrorism in schools. Things about "lockdown drills", which I had never experienced when I went to school. It all sounds like a load of horse**** to me. The article made mention of the Chechnian takeover of that Russian school some time last year, I think it was. The difference is, here in the US, there is no current civil war of attempted sucession taking place. Sheesh, people, use some common sense. The only real reason for participating in those worthless exercises, reminiscent of 1950's schoolchildren anti-atomic-attack drills, is because the feds are handing out grants to take part in those sorts of exercises. So a little beaurecratic hocus-pocus later, and the local police/schools get a chunk-o-money from the feds.
I think that's one of the real fundemental sources of corruption in gov't, the continued "need" for intentionally-deceptive practices and proposals, in order to "secure budget" for things. It doesn't even have to be a concerted "conspiracy" effort. Just every person/dept. acting alone, for their own greedy purposes, acts on the whole as a "herd mentality", in order to undermine trust and truth in gov't. (Well, if there ever were such a thing in the first place - that might just be a lie that was taught to us in gov't schools when we were younger.)