tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post6033522459019633070..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Spy vs. Spy: Bay State Fathead Edition FDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-84451086613025793322013-04-29T16:15:32.156-07:002013-04-29T16:15:32.156-07:00I dunno, Lisa; he sounds like regardless of his gr...I dunno, Lisa; he sounds like regardless of his grades like he's kind of simple. The more I hear and read about this the less impressed I am with these gomers. They seem to have been the Dylan and Klebold of "terrorism". And those guys, too, caused "terror and death". But not in any particular attempt to shape or change public opinion or policies.<br /><br />I agree with jim that we REALLY need to rethink what we're doing re: this whole "war on terror" nonsense. But not sure that these guys are a data point therein.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-3181770857194194362013-04-29T14:35:51.567-07:002013-04-29T14:35:51.567-07:00Terrorists have never been an existential threat t...Terrorists have never been an existential threat to the U.S., but they do what they can do, which is cause terror and death.<br /><br />As for Dzhokar's talking before being Miranda-ized, I suspect pain killer-induced haze versus stupidity is to blame for his talking. He got into Dartmouth, so likely he's not an idiot.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-63763537086779747922013-04-26T11:15:51.190-07:002013-04-26T11:15:51.190-07:00Labrys: Yep. The whole notion of turning the soc...Labrys: Yep. The whole notion of turning the social and political norms of the United States upside down (i.e. doing what the GOP has been trying to do since 2001) based on fear and loathing of this cheap idiot disposable meat is somewhere beyond ridiculous.<br /><br />But, there; that's the State of Our Union...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-16921062590724031722013-04-26T09:14:58.839-07:002013-04-26T09:14:58.839-07:00I once had a friend who was a defense lawyer for a...I once had a friend who was a defense lawyer for a while. She said that in the main, criminals were criminals because they were stupid --- the whole movie super-villain image is, well, a movie trope.<br /><br />I think this is something Americans need to have hammered into their heads about MOST "terrorists", too. They are usually poor, none too well educated (if educated at all), they are easily led and not exactly master-minds of any sort.<br /><br />And some of them, frankly the brighter ones, only blow themselves to their hoped for kingdom come for the money that will be paid to their survivors. If we could STOP seeing such people as vicious murderous thugs and see them as helpless, desperate pawns we'd have a much better chance of changing the events that lead us to the endless and phony "war on terror."<br /><br />Ok, now that I got my pipe dream out of my system, I can go slave in the dirt all weekend.Syrbal/Labryshttp://www.herlanderwalking.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-69707486295476715882013-04-25T14:23:28.428-07:002013-04-25T14:23:28.428-07:00My understanding of the genuine article jihadi typ...My understanding of the genuine article jihadi type is that they don't care about this stuff; they're happy to tell the infidels about their acts and their plans (outside of giving up their buddies who might still be lurking about...) because they're not in this to beat the rap.<br /><br />Which, in turn, suggests that this idiot ISN't "a terrorist intent on mass casualties" but an idiot who somehow drifted into this or got roped in by his older brother (who DOES appear to have been pretty radical-Islamized by some joker at his mosque) and who is realizing that he's looking at 50-to-life.<br /><br />And even more revealing is the story of the brothers' lives between Monday and Thursday of last week;<br /><br /><i>"What did they do in the interim three days? Go to the gym, check in on their busted car, and, in Dzhokhar's case, go to a party on the UMass-Dartmouth campus."</i><br /><br />So Gavrilo Prinzep, these guys weren't...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-74048211224595564362013-04-25T13:51:48.293-07:002013-04-25T13:51:48.293-07:00Wow, they might have to, INTERROGATE him over a fe...Wow, they might have to, INTERROGATE him over a few sessions! I mean instead of communicating his manifesto, walking them through the steps he took to commit this crime, his plans afterwards! It's like a terrorist intent on mass casualties never planned to make things easy for us!<br /><br />Shocking!Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715768191516712688noreply@blogger.com