[Diddle E. Squat]

I think "the authorities" track record leads to a lot of this.

The only terror attack we've received so far (9/11) was correctly identified as such pretty quickly. In contrast, the now inane "Nothing to see folks, move along" sarcastic post has been made 1,000 times on FR, and each times indeed it ended up being nothing. Yet no matter how many times these paranoid cynics' ignorant prognastications prove to be wrong, they still return each time to insist that if she floats, she must be a witch.

[John W]

I would be speaking of authorities track record, period, not just as it relates to terrorism

[BykrBayb]

It would just be nice, if once in a while, they actually conducted an investigation before giving a press release declaring the results of the investigation. We would not accept a fire marshall ruling out arson before even showing up at the still blazing inferno. We wouldn't accept him doing that once, much less every single time.

[leilani]

The only terror attack we've received so far (9/11) was correctly identified as such pretty quickly. In contrast, the now inane "Nothing to see folks, move along" sarcastic post has been made 1,00010,000 times on FR, and each times indeed it ended up being nothing.

Drives me NUTS! Thank you!

(I'm not stalking you, I swear, lol! But it really does seem that most days you're the only person making any sense at all around here.)

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The only terror attack we've received so far (9/11) was correctly identified as such pretty quickly.

Quickly, as in the moment the second plane hit the second tower. The precise moment the attack became impossible to deny.

Also, I think jihadi Beltway sniper, the "Praise Allah" anthrax letters, the El Al counter shooting at LAX and the temple shooting in Seattle might qualify as acts of Islamic terrorism. Those, in addition to the number of large scale attacks that have been foiled.

[sully777]

The only terror attack we've received so far (9/11) was correctly identified as such pretty quickly. In contrast, the now inane "Nothing to see folks, move along" sarcastic post has been made 1,000 times on FR, and each times indeed it ended up being nothing. Yet no matter how many times these paranoid cynics' ignorant prognastications prove to be wrong, they still return each time to insist that if she floats, she must be a witch.

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Example (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498353/posts and elsewhere) was the OU Stadium Bombing. The kid blew himself up outside the OU game two years ago...the kid with volatile explosives in his apartment ...the one whose roommates were indirectly connected to other interesting characters that show up in the 1993 OKCity Bombing and 9-11...the one that was a muslim convert that went to the same mosque as some of the 9-11 perps in Stillwater attended...

The local authorities exploded a number of bombs in the area of his "suicide". A security guard swears the kid tried to gain access to the stadium of 84,000 of a nationally televised NCAAF event several times with his backpack of goodies. He was turned away each time.

The kid killed himself with a volatile bomb pack next to a biology lab. These are all facts that were reported by the police and witnessed by local and filed with the local news.

Then the ATF took over the investigation. Some media outlets began reporting the ATF's new story: No suicide--it was an accident. No bombs found beyond the kid even though the police stated they removed bombs from the stadium before the ATF and FBI enetered the investigation. No explosives in the apartment even though witnesses and local police stated explosives were removed and the residue was found everywhere in the apartment. No connections to Pakistani radicals he associated with even though he lived with them (in an area off campus known as Little Tehran), dated them, and hung out at the mosque with them. And furthermore, even though Hinrich most definitely converted to a radical sect of Islam, the ATF/FBI/former Dem Senator David Boren said he wasn't a muslim. Then the feds ruled the whole thing an "accidental" explosion.

Then, all evidence was sealed by the court as EYES ONLY.

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This NYC thing may not be a terrorist plan...I agree with that assumption...but to make the statement you made here is patently absurd. There have been terrorist activities in the USA after 9-11 and the govenrment, for whatever reason, has covered up the incidents. If it's to protect ongoing investigations, etc. that is well and good. But don't say it's never happened. It's happened.


BTW, I'm the furthest thing from a tinfoiler/paranoid cynic.