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An understandable perspective.

HOWEVER, I FOR ONE,

am reasonably comfortable with what they've seemed to be doing--assuming a lot here.

LIFE IS INCREDIBLY COMPLEX.

THIS SITUATION IS EVEN *MORE* COMPLEX.

As my boss said . . . it was the flakey orgs and the flakey pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides prewar Germany which best and earliest predicted what Hitler would do; what he was etc.

TONS OF ACCURATE INFORMATION may appear totally flakey. Tons may be mixed with truly flakey. Some will be mosly right and a little flakey. Probably a precious minority of sources and stories will be 98% accurate. It's the nature of life and humans in the best of times.

I for one would appreciate all the information reasonably possible to obtain. I can at least pray about it and prayerfully discern what seems reasonable to pay attention to. I consider myself at least as sane, rational and perceptive as a LOT of "experts."

Even the experts can't be certain about the reliability of this or that source or even list or sources. They tend to try and get corroborations from multiple sources and perspectives--a wise, sound goal.

But often, even in the best of times, that luxury is JUST NOT AVAILABLE. And, wise choices MUST STILL be made which will effect the lives of millions. Not a particularly enviable job.

Sometimes in the mix of data and sources, some LITTLE TINY NUANCE will be a clue for a discerning perceptive person with some significant experience that a particular thing is really true and warrants serious action accordingly. I don't begrudge people missing such nuances. I'm happy when they make their best experienced guess and we see what falls off the shelf by and by.

Being safer is usually better than being more fool hardy.

Yes, alert-fatigue can be a hazard. But it's better than laziness, blindness, head-in-the-sandness. This is survival. It's a complex problem.

There are no easy solutions. The enemy is resourceful, clever, even creative and certainly relentless.

DISINFORMATION ABOUNDS FROM A DIVERSITY OF SOURCES FOR A DIVERSITY OF REASONS. And the degree of disinformation as well as the degree of simply plain human (as well as technological) error is likely not to be evident until historians sort through it all or Heaven weighs in with a historical holographic video.

I don't mind giving grace to those doing even their fractional best. The traitors and the enemy will get theirs whether from natural reaping what they've sown or from God's heavy hand of judgment.

The only thing for survival and eternal Life is to live and walk close to God. That's the only Hope I see remotely realistic and on the horizon. All else is details. Some details will be more comfortable than others.

But I know where I'm headed and Who I'm going with. And HE is much better at holding onto me, than I am at holding on to Him. And He has promised to never leave me nor forsake me. And that where He is, He will bring me to live eternally. Pretty good deal. Regardless of what the terrorists do now or later--to the USA or me personally.

Still, we watch, prepare, do what we can for ourselves, our families and our Republic . . . and some of us, for The Kingdom not made with hands.

Quix, I agree with what you said, all I am saying is that reveal the sources or state that it is speculation, assumption, or what one believes based on their life experience.

To say there is a specific threat to a particular entity is not credible to me based on assumption, opinion, or speculation ESPECIALLY if one states those assumptions, etc., as being factual.

There are enough threats going on out there that we do not need someone to throw in more than what there is just to get hits on their sites.

I have a problem with someones integrity and credibility when greed overrides the truth where lives, or peoples livelihoods are involved! If the truth is not good enough, then one needs not say anything, at least IMHO!