Truly, I prefer to post and talk about pop culture and geekery and general silliness. However, sometimes my interests are in areas which I know are more polarizing, but I think are still worth sharing.
I enjoyed this article and wanted to share. My enjoyment of it did not come from any right wing or left wing political well inside of me. My enjoyment of this article was because it made sense to me. The polices from which we are dealing with the fallout today came from both right and left wing administrations. Lobbyists and corporations really have no preference which side they are buying so long as they get what they pay for.
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A lot of sense made in this article, +Scott Cramer . Thanks for sharing, my friend.
All I want to say is that living outside of the US for the past nine years has really opened my eyes. I love my country, but the rose-coloured glasses have been removed and the patriot blindness has been cured.
excellent article. thanks 4 posting.
I've been thinking about the points Jensen made in this article here recently. There's too many secrets, distrust and mistrust these days. It's not like before, a mere 30-40 years ago, before information was so immediately available to anyone. It's not easy to hope when private interests are more interested in making money than providing support with it. But I'm just oversimplifying. 🙂
The surveillance state failed to stop the Boston tragedy, and the resulting police lockdown failed to produce the suspect.
I'd like to see some (honest) metrics breaking down foiled terrorist plots pre/post 9/11.
As far as I can remember, the only success stories they've brought out involved FBI/DHS agents grooming, supplying, and egging on some people that would never have done (or been able to do) anything dangerous. So much of what happened at the Boston marathon can be explained by this: they set two students up, helped them make backpack bombs, and placed people all around the marathon to swoop in and "foil the plot" before anyone got hurt. It just didn't go according to plan, and there's plenty of circumstantial evidence to make that theory at least plausible.
I haven't caught up on the news yet. I'm afraid to look.
+Galen Hussey I was going to make similar remarks, and I looked up terror attack since 9/11 and it seemed like there were legitimate attacks thwarted. Although I have to agree, the "foiled attacks" that got the most press seemed setup by the FBI.
wave to our friends in Homeland Security