Sadly there are a number of freepers who feel vigilance and attention to these threats are one big joke.
They feel anybody seeing blinking lights, wires, and flashlight batteries is overreacting. They should *know* that bombs don't look like that.
I went over to DU and their discussion was much less hostile and nasty.
Gee. People in nine
cities somehow got it right.
One city screwed up.
Should we run the world
based on the ten percenters
who eat yellow snow?!
"Sadly there are a number of freepers who feel vigilance and attention to these threats are one big joke. "
I think it's simply beacause the " Middle-Eastern men buying cellphones " thing has been shown here to be simply nothing to get upset over.
"vigilance and attention " is fine, but this particular situation has allready been shown to be no kind of threat and many FReepers will respond to it with attempts at humour, some with more success then others. ... Relax
Agreed, we do not really know what is going on.
The authorities can not tell us what is going on without risking giving away information that may be used against the terrorists.
All my thoughts expressed on this site are based on news reports. News reports are not very accurate. They are shaded, opinionated, and deceptive.
My house is in Laurel, MD. The 9/11 terrorists stayed in two motel/hotels here. You can walk through the woods around my house right up to the back of one of those hotels (about a quarter of a mile) the other hotel was about a quarter of a mile in the other direction.
I take nothing for granted and take notice of everything I can.
PS: Both of these hotels have been totally destroyed and other buildings have been built where they once were.
There is a line between vigilance and paranoia, and between paranoia and outright delusion and hysteria. Somewhere along the way some of the more fervent FReepers went from being vigilant of people doing suspicious activites to consider a group of any "Middle Eastern looking men" doing anything suspicious, pretty soon we'll be warned to be suspicious of any swarthy looking man with darker complexions - who knows, they must be Middle Eastern, and by definition terrorist, if not Middle Eastern, Latino maybe? Must be illegals ...