Posted on 06/04/2009 12:28:10 AM PDT by STARWISE
At approximately 10:30 a.m. on June 1, as two young U.S. soldiers stood in front of the Army Navy Career Center in west Little Rock, Ark., a black pickup pulled in front of the office and the driver opened fire on the two, killing one and critically wounding the other.
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According to police, the suspect told the arresting officers that he had a bomb in his vehicle, but after an inspection by the police bomb squad, the only weapons police recovered from the vehicle were an SKS rifle and two pistols.
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Several weeks ago, STRATFOR heard from sources that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations had been ordered to “back off” of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts.
At this point, it is unclear to us if that guidance was given by the White House or the Department of Justice, or if it was promulgated by the agencies themselves, anticipating the wishes of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.
(Excerpt) Read more at stratfor.com ...
That's not too hard to explain on much simpler, more mundane grounds.
It's very unlikely that the FBI has sufficient resources to maintain a fool-proof 24/7 tail on everybody who might commit an act such as this. They can try to do their best, but they're unlikely ever to be able to track these guys all the time. Some of them are going to get through, as this guy did.
A more interesting question, to which we'll never get the answer, is how many the FBI has prevented from doing this sort of thing.
That would be the more interesting and useful statistic.
bttt
Thank you much for the ping, I just came on today - late!
I'll be there in Sept, but for gosh sakes, I think we need to go much, much earlier then that. We are nearing the Tipping Point!
On the vain side, I have only been a registered FReeper since Nov 08...but lurker since 01. I wasn't sure if I would be accepted into hard core FReeper plans yet. If so, I respectfully want full FReeper involvement.
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thanks for the ping, you gotta remember that we mustn’t upset the muslims, or they’ll burn our cars and smash our windows and create mayhem in the streets...and we wouldn’t want a riot a la belle france, now would we?
sarc.
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor”.
Great "home page" - too bad our "union" teachers don't bother to teach history this way...
Thanks so much. I love my Home Page...And even though not taught now, we (You and me and all of us here on FR) know about it. We cannot forget it and may soon have to relive it. The Tipping Point is near!!!
As we get closer (and how I do wish it were tomorrow) if there are things I can do to help accommodate any other FReeper I will certainly offer!
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