A few cheering thoughts on terrorism. This column specializes in cheering thoughts.
Terrorism by Moslems in America and Europe cannot be stopped. If attacks do not occur, it will be because nobody tried very hard. Stopping them would require excluding Moslems, deporting them, or controlling them by totalitarian methods. Or, improbably, minding our own business in the Middle East.
What you think of the foregoing approaches doesn’t matter, since none of them will be used. In France the result would be a civil war. America is too divided to do anything about anything.
The notion that the government can prevent terrorism suggests studied inattention to the obvious. To begin, the intelligence agencies have proved useless. NSA did not prevent the first attack on the Twin Towers in 1993, nor the successful one. French intelligence did not prevent the recent attacks in Paris, nor Russian intelligence the downing of the airliner over Syria. On and on.
The idea that terrorism can be prevented must include the idea that a package containing ten pounds of C4 (or Semtex, or RDX, or….) and a blasting cap can be kept out of a country with long and almost open borders. America can exclude neither tons of prohibited substances nor tens of thousands of prohibited people. C4 is not hard to use. I learned in infantry training at Camp Lejeune long ago. Nothing to it.
Exercise for the reader: Think of five ways a terrorist cell with the resources of the Nine-Eleven attackers could get a small suitcase into America. Think how you could do it.
What goes on at airports is not security. It is Security Theater. When the government’s own agents try to smuggle “weapons” aboard airliners to test the system, they succeed ninety-five percent of the time.
Further, a terrorist doesn’t need to get aboard an airliner to blow up spectacularly. At many airports, hundreds of people line up at ticket counters during peak hours. A carry-on bag of explosive would easily create enough slaughter to shut down air travel and to make international headlines for weeks.
The willingness of a suicide bomber to die makes him almost unstoppable. If he has assembled enough explosive for a car bomb, he has only to find a large number of people together, pull up to them, and push the button. An AK, a thirty-round magazine, and a Fourth of July crowd would serve well. Ten pounds of C4 in a shoulder bag in a crowded movie theater would also work. Suicide would not be necessary: “Would you watch my bag for a minute while I go to the john?”
Warnings at airports that unattended vehicles will be ticketed, towed, and perhaps destroyed are also Security Theater. By the time the vehicle was noticed, and somebody sent to check it out, an easy five minutes would have passed and the driver would be somewhere else. Boom.
Tim McVeigh blew up the federal building in Oklahoma using ammonium-nitrate fertilizer. He didn’t need to smuggle anything into the US. How do you watch fertilizer?
Large numbers of people are easily vulnerable in large numbers of places. Restaurants, kindergartens, churches. It is impossible to secure tens of thousands of soft targets. The only question is whether a terrorist can get his hands on explosives. Or a gun. Or gasoline.
Exercise for the reader: Think of three spectacularly horrible things you could do with five gallons of gasoline and a cigarette lighter. Especially if you were willing to die doing them.
The appeal of terrorism is great because it is by a very wide margin the most cost-effective form of warfare. By the expenditure of at most a few lives and a little money, terrorists can throw a country into panic, spur major reductions in civil liberties, permanently alter its government, and perhaps cause it to launch exhausting wars. For example, consider what Nine-Eleven has done to America.
Exercise for the reader: Go online and investigate”improvised explosives.” Better yet, don’t, because the FBI might show up. Terrorists already know lots about such things. For that matter, countless military manuals in the public domain deal with such things in practical detail.
Domestic surveillance is of little use. It assumes that terrorists are stupid and do not read newspapers. When the terrorists find that NSA can track cell phones, they stop using them. This is an inconvenience, but not a bar to success. Lone terrorists don’t have to communicate with anyone.
Exercise for the reader: Think of three ways you could communicate undetectably by Facebook. Don’t bother with techy things like indexing by the digits of an irrational number into low-order bits of the RGB fields of a chromatically chaotic photo,. Just think pre-arranged words and phrases, photos, etc.
The last time I was on Metro, Washington’s subway, recorded messages constantly warned passengers to be alert, to watch each other, to report “suspicious behavior,” whatever that is, to a TSA official or call a certain phone number.
Security Theater. Pointless. A terrorist, not being stupid, would make sure he didn’t look like a terrorist. (What does a terrorist look like?) At rush hour, the system is a madhouse with cars so crammed that standees can hardly breathe. Nobody pays attention to packages and briefcases. You can fill in the blanks.
For that matter, a suicide type could create quite a stir just by shooting everybody in a restaurant in Washington. Gun control is not an answer. It serves only to keep the law-abiding from getting guns. Mexico strictly controls guns. Does anyone get shot there?
Low-level federal bureaucrats are probably too stupid to realize that what they are doing is a waste of time. Higher-ups know. Whether the endless warnings and theater are intended to make the public think the government is “doing something,” or to co condition people to obedience, I don’t know.
For what it’s worth, I note that last time I was in Washington, the admonitions on Metro included things like “Lift your feet when getting on the escalators” and similar mommyisms. This at any rate sounds more like bored collectivism than anything else.
Exercise for the reader: Calculate the likelihood that a suicide bomber with a briefcase would be detected and rendered harmless in Washington’s Metro system. Hint: The answer begins with “z.”
For terrorists with a little bit of organization—you know, like the Nine-Eleven crew—getting anything or anybody at all into the US is not difficult. Have you seen a radar map of the waters around Miami at night? There are hundreds of blips, cabin cruisers, cargo ships, fishermen, whatever. They are not watchable.
I used to think that if I wanted to smuggle something of moderate size into America, I would have my henchmen from Colombia drop the load in a hundred feet of water off North Carolina and send me the GPS coordinates. I would go out a few days later as a sport scuba diver and pick the stuff up.
Other easy means of terrorism exist which I won’t write about because some yoyo Unabomber wannabe might actually use them. They have all been used before, and real terrorists know about them.
It is interesting to remember that terrorism is not bad for everybody. For the Pentagon, Nine-Eleven was a windfall, providing wars and new drones; for NSA, a massive expansion in its powers; for Israel and AIPAC, the destruction of Israel’s arch-enemy, Iraq; for the arms manufacturers, hundreds of billions; for the federal government in general, near-dictatorship and, for jihadists, the involvement of the US in crippling and endless wars. Which is what they wanted. Everybody profited except the American public.
The future? Hard to say. As I write, President B. Hussein Obama is endeavoring to import tens of thousands of Moslems. It will be impossible to screen them, presumably making the importation a free ride into the US for terrorists if they so choose. It is not politically incorrect to note that the countless Moslem terrorists in recent years have been countless Moslem terrorists. It is, however, true. The greatest question abbout terrorists is not whether they can, but why they haven’t.
Obama and the other vile bastards in Washington know exactly what they are doing. They want to use domestic terrorism to further their own political agenda. They don’t care who gets hurt or killed. To the Marxist traitors everything is political. The worse the better for their treasonous desires.
I’m so thankful for our 2nd amendment.I hope the American public never gives into these traitors on gun control. Guns are probably the only thing saving us from these people.
Dr. Anthony Napoleon @Napoleonlegal
They are NOT “extremists” they are Muslims. They are NOT “terrorists” they are ISLAMIC soldiers. They are motivated by the Qur’an, period!
Dr. Anthony Napoleon @Napoleonlegal
The Progressives in charge know exactly what they are doing when they invite into our country ISLAMIC warriors. Treason is real
I wonder how a terrorist attack would look in the south georgia sticks. I suppose they could hit the baptist church come sunday, but I’m just not picturing it. Anyone new would have folks all up in their business to begin with. And we’d be better armed generally speaking, or at least have them outnumbered. Half the vehicles are trucks, and all of them have at least a bird gun. Wish we could put a fence around the county to keep every single muther out.
I picked up this interesting passage from an AP report.
“But their cache of thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives found in a home that the couple rented raises major concerns about a wider plot, or a plan to act on their own to hit other targets.
Authorities have tracked down at least four people from the Los Angeles area who were previously under investigation by U.S. counterterrorism officials and were found to have had communication with Farook in the past, said a law enforcement source involved in the investigation.
But details about the individuals were murky. The law enforcement source said the last contact any of the four had with Farook was in June, and asserted that nothing fruitful came from the interviews about Wednesday’s attack.”
1) “Raises major concerns about about a wider plot…”
2) “Authorities have tracked down at least four people from the Los Angeles area who were previously under investigation by U.S. counterterrorism officials and were found to have had communication with Farook in the past…”
3) “…details about the individuals were murky. The law enforcement source said the last contact any of the four had with Farook was in June, and asserted that nothing fruitful came from the interviews about Wednesday’s attack.”
Add to the above from another AP story-
“Man Says He Had Suspicions When He Saw Half-Dozen Middle Eastern Men Near Calif. Shooting Suspect’s Home
A man who reportedly worked near the home of one of the San Bernardino mass shooting suspects said he grew suspicious when he noticed half a dozen Middle Eastern men hanging around the area. We’d see them leave where they’re raiding the apartment,” he said.
However, the man reportedly declined to report what he felt was suspicious behavior because he didn’t want to be accused of racial profiling.
It seems pretty clear that the government knows of people in the US with links to terrorism yet allows them to remain. Thinks that evidence demonstrates wider plot. Knows that the people who carried out the 12/2 attacks WERE IN TOUCH WITH THE PEOPLE THE FBI HAVE PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED AS POSSIBLE TERRORISTS. Has evidence that other “Middle Eastern men behaving suspiciously have been observed exiting the apartment where the attacks lived RECENTLY. Details the FBI have on these suspects are “murky”. Nothing “fruitful” came from the “interviews” so they are allowed back into the mainstream of American life.
Of course the security of the American people is theater. Of course any so-called investigations are pointless. And most importantly, of course the US government wants these people, utterly alien and clearly hostile to other Americans woven into the fiber of our day to day existence. They are the ones responsible for these attacks because clearly the attacks are a result of their policies. If they wanted to fix things, they’d start with the agents of these actions, not focus on the very people who are the victims by stripping them of their right to protect themselves.
It’s pointless to wring our hands, ask why, demand reform or action or new laws or anything else from the very people who facilitate these acts.
Clearly they cannot protect us, will not stop the flow of hostile invaders, will not implement any policy to eject those identified as hostiles and will only attempt to defang the citizenry as a consequence of their deliberate strategy. How much more evidence is necessary to convince the remaining Americans that they are the enemy of the State?
There is only self preservation at the personal, family and clan level wherever you live, wherever you go at all times until the edifice crumbles.
All the rest is pointless.
Sad, but I have to agree with Hardscrabble.
I don’t think there is a plot to seed the population with radical extremists in order to eventually control the population. Respectfully, I know that many on this site believes this. I just think they (pol leadership) are incompetent, and brimming with what is commonly called political correctness. The system is so divided and dysfunctional, and so full of corporate worship, the ‘System’ is now at the point of where nothing works for ‘The People’, much and anymore.
I accept that everyone cannot uproot and move to safe area where your family, clan, and supported neighbours are easily identified. But you need a Plan, and call it what you will. You need a plan and a set of goals to ensure your own survival, and that which you beleve in.
regards to all.
Paulo, the incompetence theory has been postulated numerous times when I point out the facts as they exist, as if incompetence is a defense. We ought not think that way because at every level where this alleged incompetence exists there is a system to correct for it- supervisors, managers, auditors, etc. If the premise is that there are no competent people anywhere within the system to identify the failures- as I was easily able to do above from just a few citations- then the system itself is bereft of any legitimacy and it needs to be cleaned out top to bottom, but the fact is that they are extremely competent when it comes to payrolls, logistics, supply, promotion, department creation, legislation, purchasing, grants, commissioning, retaining power, expanding controls, etc., etc. How can they be both completely incompetent throughout when it comes to their purpose and equally competent when it comes to their own sustenance? That’s the key to unwinding incompetence theory.
Katie Steinle was murdered by 5 times deported illegal alien Francisco Sanchez. It’s not just the Moslems, the 3rd world invaders are at war with Americans. Does it matter if the victims are individual or groups? The treasonous politicians need to be held responsible for these deaths, rapes, etc. They have blood on their hands!
“To be or not to be…that is the question.” Think on this statement. We should be out there peacefully protesting for action and accountability. Individually, it will be hard, but must unite together to face this threat.
Fred nails it. Solid gold.
Anyone with a degree in Chemistry can knock together something bad out of shit you buy down at Walcreature’s or the local feed store… he doesn’t need precursor chemicals – he can fab the precursors from other precursors that won’t trip anyone’s alarm switch.
“A” and “B” yield “C”.
“D” and “E” combined with “F” yields “G”.
Combine “C” and “G” – which yields “H”. Filch a detonator from an old steering wheel airbag and guess what? Or you can just make your own. If you can successfully bake a pineapple upside-down cake, you can do this…
And we invite these fuckin scumbag Hajis into the country, into our Universities and train them. Then they go home for their doctorate in how to be a terrorist Jihadi asshole under the auspices of traveling to some prayer-rug “holy shrine” during Ramalamadingdong or whatever, then head back to the US to assume your life as a “moderate” raghead…
And that works… until it doesn’t…
Stupid fuckers… Fred is right – the only way we will get a fuckin handle on this shit is to boot every single one of the camel-fucking pederasts out of the country.
But we lack the will to do so. And the Quislings in Mordor, the MSM, the Social Justice Elf Mage Thieves will howl bloody murder if we try it…
@ Left a comment,
Dude – assuming you’re a dude – it’s not just the pols who have blood on their hands.
It’s every multi-culti nitwit fuckstick who aids and abets the invasion. Every single cultural Marxist asshole out there who screams “RAAAYCISSSMSMSM!!!” if you suggest building a wall might be a good idea is directly responsible for the deaths of every American who perishes at the hands of the invaders…
They might be fools. Dupes. But the results are the same – they support those who are actively destroying the Republic. Whether they support them out of sheer stupidity or out of malevolence makes no difference – the results are the same. And so should the punishment be.
The voters of Argentina just voted out a gov similar but a bit worse than what you have up there, The voters of Venezuela seemed primed to do the same. In both cases, there may be trouble as the commies don’t go easily into that good night. Can’t speak for Venezuela, haven’t been there in nearly 25 years, but Argentina will not likely have trouble outside the big cities. If the US has trouble, it’ll make what goes on down here look like a playground dust-up.
It appears the prevailing opinion up there with respect to a possible coming crisis is in essence “Every man for himself” extending it a bit to immediate family and perhaps not much further. I’ll be very, very curious to see how 2016 elections play out up there, because if the wrong choice is made, it’s quite possible that emigration might be a more pressing concern than immigration. I live in a Spanish-speaking version of Mayberry, R.F.D. and quite like it!
The Attorney General of The United States of America had this to say at a press conference on the shootings in California-
“We’re at the point where these issues have come together really like never before in law enforcement thought and in our nation’s history and it gives us a wonderful opportunity and a wonderful moment to really make significant change.”
Wonderful x 2.
HSF,
Indeed, incompetence may reign within the legions of bureaucrats,
however not within the ranks of the higher ups. The mere notion
of “open borders” (and much advertising of benefits for migrants)
should scream alarm. It is too simple to figure out their plan.
It is insulting and mad-making but that does not stop the flow.
“They” want us dead and gone, sick and weak. Evidence is everywhere,
yet for most, they don’t want to see it. Refuse to see it. We, the Americans,
are just so much flotsam to the central planners, and one world power
brokers. We encounter a bolted door at every turn. We cannot even speak
out for fear of attack by the PC epidemic. I predict it will get worse by the week.
One of the biggest fears (might be) a Paris style attack writ large to allow for the
“emergency” that suspends our 2016 elections. Then we will be enduring more O.
It is helpful, (momentarily) to vent. Thanks, TBP.
There is plenty of incompetence in government at all levels, of course…but I tend to agree that at the Deep State level, the people are not stupid. Of course, there are plenty of genuine psychopaths at this level, so evaluating their motives using our normal, empathetic thought patterns will not work. I believe most people at this level are not just malicious for maliciousness sake. They simply have power, crave more and are terrified of losing their power even in the slightest degree. Most are probably tactically very cunning, but lack strategic vision–ie they either have no endgame or have lied to themselves about the inevitable results of their actions. This MUST be the case, because anyone willing to study the slightest bit of history know that empires always collapse and this process destroys the existing power schemes. In other words, their actions are self-defeating in the long term…and this is where they are truly incompetent.
Another aspect, is that they live in Ivory Towers. Pampered every moment of the day, anything they desire they can have with a word. Imagine what that does to one’s psyche? If they were not born psychopaths they would quickly become so. In their Towers they are insulated from the results of their decisions and policies. Even if they have the quality of empathy, they have no mode to feel it. It would become like a video game after a while.
There are also surely a different type at the highest levels of the Deep State, as well: The Misguided Patriot. This type would know the atrocities they commit, perhaps even feel them, but they would tell themselves that it was all for the “greater good.” That phrase is a panacea for even the most acute attack of conscience. This type would probably be most prevalent in the intelligence community. A perfect example would be the nameless man in the movie “Serenity.”
Just my two cents. I find that in most cases where an either/or proposition is raised (incompetence vs malice) the truth lies either down a third path or in some combination of the two.
That said, the motives of the Deep State, do not matter in the slightest. They are dangerous and beyond the slightest hope of reform or any sort of salvation. They are a genuine, well-entrenched danger to all humanity and as susanna says, they are bleeding the people dry, robbing us of everything. HSF is quite correct that the only thing to be done is to circle the wagons and take care of you and yours. Perhaps, there will be more opportunity to effect wider change in the future…perhaps not.
@Hardscrabble,
Re: wonderful.
That’s the scariest thing in this whole thread.
A little Islamic terrorism here, alittle there. It matters not as long as the secular shadow government remains safe and in real power. If the mohammedans get to be to troublesome, they will be dealt with just as Fred described in the beginning of his article. People with COEXIST bumper stickers on their cars and in their heads are our real enemy.
Notice how places the Elite visit never get struck. It’s always someplace where the population is general. Ever hear of Davos being hit? Or the Goldman Sachs HQ? Wonder why…
It makes you challenge the idea that ‘Terrorists’ are really a threat to our (western world) way of life. With suicide attacks in the playbook a group of 10 or so could literally shut down entire regions of any western nation for weeks if not months (and just watch the chaos that follows).
As much as the TSA represents security theater, the ‘terrorist attacks’ we have seen so far represent ‘terrorist theater’ – only good enough to scare the cowards among us into begging for protection. (‘Better to die on your feet than live on your knees’ comes to mind)
Any man (or woman to be inclusive) who fundamentally believes in their cause to the point of accepting martyrdom is a threat to the status quo. Regardless if your ideal world view comprises a global caliphate, communist utopia, state succession, or just generally being left the hell alone. When people are being ignored, disrespected, and treated with irrational hostility they are pushed toward extremism (general sense, not necessarily religious). As a society, we can go along and blindly defend the status quo, or accept that maybe it’s fucked up and needs to be re-evaluated (the ‘depression’ epidemic alone suggests something isn’t working writ large).
Representative democracy can only when the people have representation – which cannot happen when the ‘representative’ has 100,000+ constituents. Try having a meaningful discussion with 100 people, let alone a 100,000. At the time of the US founding, each representative had 30-35k constituents, by 2003 it was >650k (and i doubt anyone here was alive for <250k/rep) – explain to me how a movement of 30k (<5%) within a constituency would feel represented. Loud vocal minorities have hijacked the democratic process and our 'leaders' aren't willing to reduce their share of power to compensate – the police state we have now is the only logical result.
The last paragraph is missing ‘work’ after ‘only’ in the first sentence.
“TERRORISM BY MOSLEMS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE CANNOT BE STOPPED.”
This conclusion presumes the author’s knowledge represents the total of all human knowledge. A presumption that is easily deflated.
You see, one man’s (as in English monarch) terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter (or dissident, such as Jefferson, Madison, Paine and a few thousand others).
In other words, were a dissident has no credible forum to redress his grievance, violence (or revolution) is his only recourse.
Let us restate that: where a credible forum is available, men have no reason for violence.
So, what’s the solution? Easy, a few private Americans have to organize such a forum and then invite those without forums to file their complaints in that forum. (http://redressone.wordpress.com/) It has to be done by PRIVATE MEN because legally-protected cutthroats and thieves have no interest in hanging or drowning themselves.
Let’s be realistic: knowing what to do is easy (after excreting one’s indoctrination); doing it is quite another matter.
Obesity kills 500,000 a year in America
Alcohol another 80,000
Smoking still kills 450,000 per year
Terrorist kill 3000 and we go full retard, spend 3 trillion dollars and build a system that WILL BE turned on the population.
MURICA!
Imagine if when Germany attacked Poland in 1939 the allied powers declared a war on blitzkrieg instead of a war on Germany. It is asinine to declare war on a tactic rather than an enemy and that is why we are destined to lose the war with Islam unless things change.
Apparently there is no shortage of blasphemers willing to prove their God is weak by doing his dirty work for him. I know my god doesn’t need any of my help moving his plan along.
The media is reporting the female jihadi declared her allegiance to ISIS. I’m sure if she had said anything disparaging about Lena Dunham or fat shamed her neighbor she would have been reported to authorities immediately.
This is far from over. Clearly these two had bigger plans and friends of like mind.
The male jihadi worked as a health inspector and had access to food supplies in dozens of restaurants. I hope someone from the FBI is checking to make sure no E. coli or botulism was scattered around the walk in refrigerators of the restaurants this guy was “inspecting”.
@ SpecOps Alpha…Bingo! That’s exactly how I think. The Italian Red Brigades robbed and blew up banks and committed assassinations on political figures, and the IRA hit politicians, military units and, in the end, placed bombs by large downtown buildings. The German Red Army (Baader-Meinhof gang) attacked military installations and corporate targets. And so on.
These were all communist inspired and backed gangs doing their best to fuck up Western Civilization. Now you don’t see that because their students and soldiers are now the leaders of the West’s nations and are running the show…like Ovomit, Merkel and the others.
You won’t see any banks being blown up now, instead you have the school massacres and the San Bernadino attack. Those are tailor made to help TPTB. Those attacks not only do not hurt TPTB in any way, they accomplish what TPTB want, which is to lead the nation to total disarmament of the general population, either willingly or by force.
Mark my words, when the big attack/false flag occurs which murders thousands of people and brings about the cry for gun confiscation, it will be lily White, conservative armed men who are blamed for it. All these school shootings and such are just the “softening up” phase, so that the average smuck can get used to endlessly hearing about gun control, gun violence, gun tragedy, gun confiscation, homegrown terrorists and all the other key phrases that are being used constantly in the MSM. When the big one hits, maybe a dirty bomb, a massacre at a sporting venue, or maybe something else no one thought of before, it’ll be the clarion call for TPTB to have carte blanche to fuck us over completely.
SpecOpsAlpha
“Notice how places the Elite visit never get struck. ……………..Wonder why…”
Same reason police stations never get hit – too many armed guards around.
Places where there is no one around that can shoot back are much easier targets.
Jimski – Throw in another 20,000 or so killed annually by nice and legal prescription drugs.
Wow, Paulo, your belief in the “incompetence theory” of government is stunning, especially after 7 years of said government continuously doing the exact opposite of any action that might remotely benefit (or leave unmolested) the normal, white middle class.
I suppose you also subscribe to the theory that the Carolina Panthers are just grossly incompetent at losing football games?
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) actually was quoted in the aftermath of San Bernardino saying: “Sensible gun laws work. We’ve proven it in California. And we’re not going to give up.” Yes, she did.
I want my Constitution back.
It was my impression we traded the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th,(basically elements of all) and now they are clamoring for the 2nd, for Security. On top of this relinquishing, we provided Trillions of our capitol for the Fed’s to erect a modern security edifice.
So, if the Department of Homeland SECURITY and National SECURITY Agency armed with trillions of budgetary dollars and the freedom to act without Constitutional restraint, could not spot these Jihadis and their bomb making factory, then it is clear they cannot provide the security we traded for.
Breach of Contract.
I want my Constitution back.
Mesomorph that is the way liberal think. Nobody is responsible for their actions. That is why we have a war on poverty, a war on drugs and now the war on terror. It is a way to legitimize the humanity of the perpitrators.
overthecliff,
I hope they declare a war on low taxes next.
A long, long time ago (not when the world was young – but sort of middle aged), I prepped to match my age and life expectancy — assuming no one tries to cut that life expectancy short. I’ve renewed the prep on a semi-annual basis ever since.
Now I’m 78 year old (believe me – that’s old even though I don’t feel it much except for a loss of stamina) still go to the gym two-three times a week, have more scars than a retired pit-bull and this whole thing of Mouselims, terrorists in our America and the incompetence of our Security Alphabet agencies is beginning to piss me off.
So I will upgrade the prep a bit, drop by my local gun shot tomorrow and expand my defensive stores somewhat (I have a Florida concealed carry license which I intend to start using, never having done before), my car (still an extension of home “castle”) will acquire a weapon and ammo and I will increase my home stash from a purely defensive 20 Gage Model 500 (with #2 buck) tucked behind the bedroom door to an AR15 with a case of .223 NATO ammo. My .380 popgun (plus extra ammo) goes in the car ,a 9mm or 40cal semi-auto will inhabit my bed side table and a 9mm Kel-Tec will travel with me in a with a concealed clip which allows the weapon to ride inside my pants, concealing it nicely, but instantly available if the need arises .
Total cost to upgrade – maybe $2000 bucks which is cheap at the price if it should ever be needed (which I devoutly hope it won’t).
I’m too old to manage much offensive action but I can put up a hell of a holding action while the young hairy brave types make their escape to fight another day..
I also fully expect to die peacefully in bed at a time and method of my choosing – and my Military Academy graduate (Marine) grandson can inherit all the tools I leave behind..
But I’m really getting pissed at the U.S. Intelligence Agencies and their inability to put 2+2 together and keep out the nasties infiltrating our Land of the Free (shouldn’t you like to believe that!)
MA
fred is 100% right. Another interesting thing to point out is the 700k people on a terrorist watchlist. Ive pointed this out before, but if even 1% of those people were actually terrorists, this shit would happen at least once a week, in every medium to large size city in the US.
lotsa awesome comments. tho I have a few questions?
@bigstupid what is representative democracy? I know what a representative republic is supposed to be , but I am not familiar with that term?
Isnt it insane , as several comments read , that all the infrastructure that is supposedly in place to protect the average person , is absolutely useless? Unless that infrastructure is in place for a completely different agenda?
@destroyer of shoes , Ya I think in most of Ga , there would be a slightly different outcome on the so called alah akbarness that goes on elsewhere . Tho I could be wrong )
@ Billy plus 100 , you are absolutely correct .
@MA keltec also makes a .223 caliber pistol , not saying that is with me in the car but if it was , it is a lot of potential firepower in a very small , controllable, package. The 16 round shotgun is on my wish list ) Again small ,controllable package ,nether one of them take up much a lot of space , tho the recoil on the 12 gauge is a little high . Pistol not so much ))
@BB yes thay know exactly what they are doing sigh ((((((((((((((
Just my random thoughts
also .223 ammo is different from 5.56 Nato ammo. The size of calibers is the same ,but the amount of powder is higher in 5.56 . So you can fire .223 in a 5.56 weapon , but not always 5.56 in a .223 . Completely different amount of pressure ,and those saying .223 you need to call the manufacturer on whether the barrel can handle the higher pressure of a 5.56 round..
I Learned the hard way , lol ,no disrespect intended .
Re: Incompetence theory. The people in “charge” are very cunning. They are not incompetent. However, because they are psychopathic power control freaks (Narcissistic Personalities), they are both intolerant of other opinions AND they are very insecure about their own position. Since they would do anything for power and control (and money since it represents power and control to them), they assume that everyone around them would do so as well.
So they hire incompetents as underlings and managers to make sure their position is not threatened. And don’t think that the CEO or the President or the Majority Shareholder or the Kind is the person in Charge. They might be, but you always have to look at who might be pulling the strings, having placed them into the position of power because they are incompetent and can be controlled.
Trust me; if they find out you are smart and you see through them, they will get rid of you.
“I’m nobody, who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there’s two of us: Don’t tell! They’ll banish us, you know.”
However, I once worked for a Squadron Commander who was NOT insecure OR narcissistic. He was seriously intent on doing the best job for the country he could. He hired people who were smart and trusted them to make good decisions.
An accident was orchestrated that ended his command. Down the line, he still won the promotion that could have taken him places, but he turned it down to retire. He knew that they were just giving him a second chance to conform to their way of doing things.
The people who worked for him would have followed him to the ends of the earth if he asked them to. Which is why “they” needed him gone.
BTW… is Emily Dickinson’s I’m Nobody…
“Security theater”, great phrase. And of course, this common sense article points out very well how the War on Terror is another scam dependent on a total breakdown of critical thinking. Critical thinking has alas disappeared from America, particularly since 9/11, which to any rational mind cannot possibly have been just a “terrorist attack” by Muslims, however many rabid warriors for the prophet may have celebrated the event. It has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the buildings were dropped in a controlled demolition as any fool should be able to recognize from the videos engraved in our minds, but seeing is not believing any more. There is no known alternative way to collapse buildings in that fashion, no matter how many airplanes you crash into them. Granted we don’t know that Bush family management of the WTC’s security operations is anything more than a coincidence, or that Larry Silverstein’s nice new multi billion dollar insurance policy indicates complicity, but we do know that the frigging buildings were blown up in a very complex and precisely managed demolition. Why commit such an obvious crime when it would have been so easy to produce a believable scenario just like one of the ones Jim suggests? I imagine it has something to do with money, that insurance policy, missing gold, securities and exchange records destroyed. Hey, if you’re gonna redirect American foreign policy and find a pretext for handing out billions to your pals in defense contracts etc.(like Michael Chertoff’s profit from those airport old lady underwear scanners), why not get a little cash up front? Maybe we should just say: Wow, nice job guys. Really, that was the most successful criminal caper of all time. No question about it. Now could you just take the money and go home, live large and leave the rest of us the fuck alone so we can try to figure out how to survive. At some point, even you rulers of the universe are gonna get fucked by Mother Nature if you don’t behave. That summer mansion on the Vinyard is not impervious to the effects of radiation.
http://www.ae911truth.org/gallery/evidence.html
I have found over the years that wider body politic will rather follow a fool and complain than get behind a leader and push.
Nice one, Rob… did you just coin that phrase?