Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Sniper Suspects Are A Couple Of Homeless Bums. How Can Two Bums Cause So Much Damage?
jstone78

Posted on 10/26/2002 4:05:52 PM PDT by jstone78

The fact is - the sniper suspects are a couple of homeless bums who were living in a car.

If a couple of bums can cause so much public terror, what damage can an organized terror group cause?

Israelis live day-to-day with the most elaborate civil defense system of any nation on the face of the earth - they are a virtual police state. But they endure more terror attacks than any other nation on earth.

How is it possible to guarantee total security, short of turning a nation into a gulag/prison, along the lines of North Korea?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: jihadinamerica

1 posted on 10/26/2002 4:05:52 PM PDT by jstone78
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: jstone78
No government can truly keeps its citizens safe. Each and every person must learn to take responsibilty for his or her self with the government only being able to defend a Nation's borders. Of course, the liberals don't want this mind-set to take root again because then people will realize that they should own guns and be personally responsible instead of looking to the nanny-state to take care of their every want and need.
2 posted on 10/26/2002 4:12:15 PM PDT by SouthernDancer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jstone78
Good questions !

Of course, the nature of a sniper is that he ties up a surprisingly large body of "hostiles" ....as seems to have been the case with these two wannabees. Unfortunately, the "hostiles" were just plain folks, trying to get through the day, like the rest of us.

3 posted on 10/26/2002 4:20:05 PM PDT by genefromjersey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jstone78
The fed went all out plus both states and never would have caught these 2 bastards if they had not blundered in their communications to the authorities. There letters were full of bad grammer and bad spelling so you know these werent 2 rocket scientists. If they were of above average intellegance, it still be going on.
4 posted on 10/26/2002 4:23:01 PM PDT by aspiring.hillbilly
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jstone78
How is it possible to guarantee total security, short of turning a nation into a gulag/prison, along the lines of North Korea?

What evidence is there that North Korea has a low crime rate?

Total security is impossible. But the sorts of measures which tend to be advocated on this board would do well enough.

5 posted on 10/26/2002 4:32:19 PM PDT by Steve Eisenberg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jstone78
How is it possible to guarantee total security, short of turning a nation into a gulag/prison, along the lines of North Korea?

Destroy the terror organization, completely.

6 posted on 10/26/2002 4:33:18 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jstone78
The Sniper Suspects Are A Couple Of Homeless Bums. How Can Two Bums Cause So Much Damage?

If you don't rely on email, telephones, and radios and you don't boast, you won't get caught.

7 posted on 10/26/2002 4:36:46 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SouthernDancer
Each and every person must learn to take responsibilty for his or her self with the government only being able to defend a Nation's borders.

A little extreme, but basically correct. If we were serious about preventing a repetition here of the Moscow situation, the propriators of Radio City Music Hall would tonight be putting up signs reading "armed patrons welcomed."

8 posted on 10/26/2002 4:38:27 PM PDT by Steve Eisenberg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: jstone78
The fact is - the sniper suspects are a couple of homeless bums who were living in a car...not the whole story yet. How many homeless rob and murder for credit cards? How many homeless have ties that are suggesting affiliation with cash rich terrorist groups?
9 posted on 10/26/2002 4:39:58 PM PDT by RWG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RWG; jstone78; *JIHAD IN AMERICA; Grampa Dave; Clovis_Skeptic; ladyinred; veronica; Travis McGee; ..
The fact is - the sniper suspects are a couple of homeless bums who were living in a car...not the whole story yet. How many homeless rob and murder for credit cards? How many homeless have ties that are suggesting affiliation with cash rich terrorist groups?

They were not without resources.

Read all about it on the JIHAD IN AMERICA list!

JIHAD IN AMERICA:

To find all articles tagged or indexed using JIHAD IN AMERICA, click below:
  click here >>> JIHAD IN AMERICA <<< click here  
(To view all FR Bump Lists, click here)



10 posted on 10/26/2002 4:44:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: aspiring.hillbilly
MU>There letters were full of bad grammer and bad spelling so you know these werent 2 rocket scientists.

Thank you. A truly priceless sentence.

11 posted on 10/26/2002 4:53:54 PM PDT by Restorer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Restorer
I'm still laughing over that one.

In fairness, his handle makes me think it was intentional.

12 posted on 10/26/2002 7:56:27 PM PDT by Looking for Diogenes
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Looking for Diogenes
True.

You will notice I somehow managed to mess up my own post!

And it wasn't intentional.
13 posted on 10/26/2002 8:04:22 PM PDT by Restorer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: LoneRangerMassachusetts; aristeides; Fred Mertz; OKCSubmariner; honway
The snipers had a working laptop in the Caprice.

When will we know where they went on it?

Did the two join Free Republic?

Any, anything re: the Franklin woman who was the FBI consultant on Cyber security of Americas infrastructure that they murdered?

Eschelon,Carnivore can you read/hear me?
14 posted on 10/26/2002 11:51:07 PM PDT by Betty Jo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: aspiring.hillbilly
There letters were full of bad grammer and bad spelling so you know these werent 2 rocket scientists.

They almost had to have outside help. Even the credit card plan took a little intelligence which Mohammed nor Malvo seemed to have.

15 posted on 10/27/2002 7:05:53 AM PST by FITZ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: jstone78
How is it possible to guarantee total security, short of turning a nation into a gulag/prison, along the lines of North Korea?

We don't need total security and anyone who thinks he has to have it ought not to get out of bed in the morning. I don't know what the actual statistics are but I bet that nearly as many people choke to death on cordogs each year as died during the two weeks the snipers were at large. Yet no one posts tremulous messages saying that cordogs are a threat to the American way of life.

16 posted on 10/27/2002 7:36:11 PM PST by DentsRun
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Restorer
Had it hauledx away it didn't come cheap
17 posted on 10/31/2002 7:07:56 AM PST by aspiring.hillbilly
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

Comment #18 Removed by Moderator

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson