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Think about it, they just watched two complete numbnuts, one just a teen shut down a whole city without hardly spending anything and it taking 10,000 agents to track down and they were not even the ones who found him. Shit, what if they actually had a good plan for escaping? Seriously, terrorists gotta be totally excited over what they just saw happen if this is what they get away with, with only a halfbaked plan.
I thought we signed all these crazy laws and acts along with spending mega billions on homeland security and spying on everyone to be on top of shit like this? LOL...
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Think about it, they just watched two complete numbnuts, one just a teen shut down a whole city without hardly spending anything and it taking 10,000 agents to track down and they were not even the ones who found him. Shit, what if they actually had a good plan for escaping? Seriously, terrorists gotta be totally excited over what they just saw happen if this is what they get away with, with only a halfbaked plan.
I thought we signed all these crazy laws and acts along with spending mega billions on homeland security and spying on everyone to be on top of shit like this? LOL...
yeah I'm sure they are all excited
they too can look forward to being captured or dead within a matter of days after doing something like this
if the neighbor didn't see the blood he would have smelled the rotting dead body within a few days
btw - where did you get the 10,000 agents figure?
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the internet,must be true if it's on the internet ;D
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btw - where did you get the 10,000 agents figure?
It was widely reported that 8000 to 9000 police were being used that night. Later, over 10k was reported as they brought in national guard.
And I agree it's scary... if they had just gotten on the highway after the attacks, they could have set off a dozen more bombs at malls or wherever else before they were caught. Their own incompetence did them in.
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It was widely reported that 8000 to 9000 police were being used that night. Later, over 10k was reported as they brought in national guard.
And I agree it's scary... if they had just gotten on the highway after the attacks, they could have set off a dozen more bombs at malls or wherever else before they were caught. Their own incompetence did them in.
that's usually what happens,the criminals make mistakes
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It was widely reported that 8000 to 9000 police were being used that night. Later, over 10k was reported as they brought in national guard.
And I agree it's scary... if they had just gotten on the highway after the attacks, they could have set off a dozen more bombs at malls or wherever else before they were caught. Their own incompetence did them in.
they were both gravely injured the within hours of their photos being released
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yeah I'm sure they are all excited
they too can look forward to being captured or dead within a matter of days after doing something like this
if the neighbor didn't see the blood he would have smelled the rotting dead body within a few days
btw - where did you get the 10,000 agents figure?
I wasn't aware terrorists gave a shit about their life? ::) Don't most of the turds kill themselves in their attack?
The figure was all over the news. I heard reports of up to 15,000 involved down to 9000 in other reports. The 9000 number is the one most often quoted in stories.
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I wasn't aware terrorists gave a shit about their life? ::) Don't most of the turds kill themselves in their attack?
The figure was all over the news. I heard reports of up to 15,000 involved down to 9000 in other reports. The 9000 number is the one most often quoted in stories.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not
I can't really even figure out what your point is in this thread
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not
I can't really even figure out what your point is in this thread
I'm not being sarcastic. If you don't give a rats ass or can't figure it out then find a different thread to troll.
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I'm not being sarcastic. If you don't give a rats ass or can't figure it out then find a different thread to troll.
ok - so if terrorists don't give a shit about their own lives then why do they run away
why did these guys run away?
You can argue suicide bombers don't give a shit about their own lives but the rest of these guys don't seem to share that characterstic
Do you really think this is some terrorist success story that others are going to try to emulate?
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ok - so if terrorists don't give a shit about their own lives then why do they run away
why did these guys run away?
You can argue suicide bombers don't give a shit about their own lives but the rest of these guys don't seem to share that characterstic
Do you really think this is some terrorist success story that others are going to try to emulate?
Don't most terrorists kill themselves in their attacks? Not talking about the ones who are funding and planning but the terrorists who carry out the attack? Is that true or false?
Why did they run away? probably because they wanted to? The only reason I mentioned terrorists killing themselves is because YOU said, "they too can look forward to being captured or dead within a matter of days after doing something like this" My point in replying is that I don't think most terrorist turds give a shit they're probably going to get killed.
I fucking said terrorists must look at what two guys were able to pull off and the show of force to catch them and be jazzed about that. If you don't get what I'm saying there especially in relation the last line of my first post then you're obviously just trolling the thread to be a douchebag.
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This is just the cost to Boston. I'd like to see what the cost analysis for all the alphabet agencies involved and to the state.
How much did it cost business to close down Boston? Bloomberg BusinessWeek puts the figure at $333 million. Jim Diffley, a vice president and chief economist at IHS Global Insight estimates it would be between $250 million and $333 million a day. "A billion [dollars] is just where you start from. Take off a quarter to a third at most for a shutdown, would be a very rough guess."
The Washington Post's Wonk Blog reckons that the figure is a lot higher. "The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy metropolitan area had a GDP of some $326 billion in 2011. That's an economy bigger than Ireland's or Finland's or Greece's or Portugal's. In theory, that works out to about $1 billion per day." Although it concedes it could be lower.
Paul Edelstein, director of financial economics at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, a city near Boston concurs. He says the Boston metropolitan area, which includes nearby Cambridge and Quincy, is the ninth largest in the United States. Its annual gross domestic product is $325 billion, and it produced just under $1 billion in goods and services per day in 2011, according to the most recent data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. That is about 2 per cent of the $45 billion in overall U.S. daily economic activity, said . The total hit from the shutdown could be less than $1 billion, Edelstein said, in part because telecommuting has dampened the impact.
http://www.soxfirst.com/30394498/the_economic_cost_of_the_boston_manhunt.php
Possibly in the billions for a teen with a few pipe bombs?
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This is just the cost to Boston. I'd like to see what the cost analysis for all the alphabet agencies involved and to the state.
How much did it cost business to close down Boston? Bloomberg BusinessWeek puts the figure at $333 million. Jim Diffley, a vice president and chief economist at IHS Global Insight estimates it would be between $250 million and $333 million a day. "A billion [dollars] is just where you start from. Take off a quarter to a third at most for a shutdown, would be a very rough guess."
The Washington Post's Wonk Blog reckons that the figure is a lot higher. "The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy metropolitan area had a GDP of some $326 billion in 2011. That's an economy bigger than Ireland's or Finland's or Greece's or Portugal's. In theory, that works out to about $1 billion per day." Although it concedes it could be lower.
Paul Edelstein, director of financial economics at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, a city near Boston concurs. He says the Boston metropolitan area, which includes nearby Cambridge and Quincy, is the ninth largest in the United States. Its annual gross domestic product is $325 billion, and it produced just under $1 billion in goods and services per day in 2011, according to the most recent data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. That is about 2 per cent of the $45 billion in overall U.S. daily economic activity, said . The total hit from the shutdown could be less than $1 billion, Edelstein said, in part because telecommuting has dampened the impact.
http://www.soxfirst.com/30394498/the_economic_cost_of_the_boston_manhunt.php
Possibly in the billions for a teen with a few pipe bombs?
for one thing, at the time nobody knew what they had ,and in case you forgot people got blown to pieces by these teens
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Unreal. To think at LEAST several hundreds of millions in damage to the US economy, lowest DOW in 2 months, and a shitload of terrified people... because of a few crude bombs.
Scary doesn't begin to describe it. I don't even know if any (pray we don't see any) subsequent attacks would have less or greater impact?
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This guy makes some good points;
Americans just love big budget action movies now they love big budget crisis What in the world do they need Armour plated Humvees with 50 caliber machine guns to hunt down a single 19 year old. I am surprised they have not called in a B-52 strike to level the neighborhood - complete insanity on the part of police FORCES. One newscast mentioned there were 10,000 law enforcement personnel in this CIRCUS. We have a total of 28,000 troops in all of South Korea!!! On the newscast they look like chickens with their heads cut off running their cars back and forth to the same location - why are they leaving the scene? - doing a coffee or pizza run??? Classical Keystone cops routine and it's NOT funny! I thought paying these jokers $100K apiece and more they would be more professional and organized - They are wasting our money with this massive inefficiency. I didn't see this much confusion at 9/11 or Waco (where Dividians had 50 Caliber machine guns!) or Oklahoma City. This police HYSTERIA is in my most cynical view is all about cowboy/juvenile excitement by the cops and the greed of getting massive overtime pay because no one in their right mind would orchestrate such a disorganized fiasco! -- A veteran of 60s riots!
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/04/19/estimating-the-economic-cost-of-the-boston-manhunt/?link=sfmw
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holy shit the internet warriors are on the move
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holy shit the internet warriors are on the move
Is that all you have?
As popular as your opinion is here, I'll take it as a compliment you disagree with most of what I say. ;)
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i have a feeling the same people that complain about the amount of cops used would be complaining if they didn't have enough and the bombers got away
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Seriously ::)
“Jim Rickards @JamesGRickards 2h
#AlQaeda will never "defeat" us. But, they might just bankrupt us. $100,000,000 to arrest a teenager is one way to frame the issue. #Boston
Max Keiser @maxkeiser 2h
City of Boston blew $330 mn. on lock down equivalent to 235,000 Oz's of Gold. America is going bankrupt chasing its own tail.
With total economic shutdown of Boston plus expenses to find two teenagers, property damage, ,stock losses, etc., odds are this was a $1 billion+ hit. Which was all preventable by proper screening of a Chechen who returned from Russia after a mysterious 6 month trip. PC is going to kill us and we're more than happy to load the gun which is going to zap us.... - Johngaltfla
http://www.examiner.com/article/marathon-bombing-terrorists-could-cost-the-city-of-boston-nearly-1-billion
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i have a feeling the same people that complain about the amount of cops used would be complaining if they didn't have enough and the bombers got away
I think people will complain because it looks bad and the agencies look like a bunch of incompetent clowns.
The numbers are not the issue.
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yeah 4 days ,incompetent clowns.next time why don't you and chavez go and get it done,im sure you 2 can rap it up in a day.don't for get your keyboards and computer chairs
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They spent a tiny fraction of this in their manhunt for dorner and he claimed to have quite the stockpile of weapons. I guess LA area should be pretty thankful the Feds didn't send in their army lol...
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yeah 4 days ,incompetent clowns.next time why don't you and chavez go and get it done,im sure you 2 can rap it up in a day.don't for get your keyboards and computer chairs
Still don't get why they did all that when they probably could have had him located quick with a few good bloodhounds... I guess DHS in all the billions spent don't have access to a few good dogs lol...
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They spent a tiny fraction of this in their manhunt for dorner and he claimed to have quite the stockpile of weapons. I guess LA area should be pretty thankful the Feds didn't send in their army lol...
Too far from the East coast. Most people don't even know it was going on.
It wasn't all over the news so it wasn't the same perceived evil.
Blacken sounds like the kind of person who wants the government to take care of him.
Shameful.
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like i said head on down next time,i'm sure your vast knowledge of getbig and the internet we,ll be greatly appreciated
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like i said head on down next time,i'm sure your vast knowledge of getbig and the internet we greatly be appreciated
Let me explain something to you. Whatever I do, when it comes to my chosen profession, I am the best at it.
Period.
I am not a cop because I CHOSE to not follow that career path. I spent time as a special police officer and I decided it wasn't for me.
If I had decided to be a cop, I'd be one of the best and I certainly wouldn't step on constitutional rights to do so.
Must suck to be scared of the boogeyman.
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Let me explain something to you. Whatever I do, when it comes to my chosen profession, I am the best at it.
Period.
I am not a cop because I CHOSE to not follow that career path. I spent time as a special police officer and I decided it wasn't for me.
If I had decided to be a cop, I'd be one of the best and I certainly wouldn't step on constitutional rights to do so.
Must suck to be scared of the boogeyman.
wow did that make you feel better,i could care less what you do,now go watch cops and let the real police do their job :D
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I don't get blacken and straw... They get so upset if you question anything the government does. Who the hell are you people lol... It's not that big of a deal. It's just an internet forum, not Meet the Press ::)
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Of course you "couldn't care less"... It's "Couldn't" not could because it means you can not possibly care less... Unless you actually do care what I do, and it's not a shock what I do... Everyone around here knows it and if you don't, then you're just not paying attention.
Either way, I have no doubt that my taxes are paying for your internet service right now, blacken.
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I don't get blacken and straw... They get so upset if you question anything the government does. Who the hell are you people lol... It's not that big of a deal. It's just an internet forum, not Meet the Press ::)
how did you decide that I'm upset and what exactly am I supposed to be upset about?
I've questioned "teh government" many times
here is an example
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=418625.0
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I have no doubt that my taxes are paying for your internet service right now, blacken.
LOL
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I don't get blacken and straw... They get so upset if you question anything the government does. Who the hell are you people lol... It's not that big of a deal. It's just an internet forum, not Meet the Press ::)
THIS^^
Either way, I have no doubt that my taxes are paying for your internet service right now, blacken.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!! ;D
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THIS^^
HAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!! ;D
what are you drinking tonight?
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what are you drinking tonight?
???
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I don't mean to make it sound like this is a win for terrorists. Just that it seems like a pretty bad message to send that a self trained terrorist with the help of his teen bother can shut down a major city and hurt the country to the tune of 300 to a billion dollars. If anything that sounds like it could encourage self trained nuts or terrorist groups.
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I don't mean to make it sound like this is a win for terrorists. Just that it seems like a pretty bad message to send that a self trained terrorist with the help of his teen bother can shut down a major city and hurt the country to the tune of 300 to a billion dollars. If anything that sounds like it could encourage self trained nuts or terrorist groups.
Imagine if people with REAL brains wanted to do some fucked up shit and actually PLANNED shit down to an "escape" and what not.
It would be ridiculous.
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Imagine if people with REAL brains wanted to do some fucked up shit and actually PLANNED shit down to an "escape" and what not.
It would be ridiculous.
That's why I question that there's really much of a terrorist threat.
Hugo posted that article from the New York Times about the FBI leading these guys on so they can bust them. Ben Swann also did a news segment on it.
If someone wants to terrorize us I don't really see what's stopping them.
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Seriously ::)
“Jim Rickards @JamesGRickards 2h
#AlQaeda will never "defeat" us. But, they might just bankrupt us. $100,000,000 to arrest a teenager is one way to frame the issue. #Boston
Max Keiser @maxkeiser 2h
City of Boston blew $330 mn. on lock down equivalent to 235,000 Oz's of Gold. America is going bankrupt chasing its own tail.
With total economic shutdown of Boston plus expenses to find two teenagers, property damage, ,stock losses, etc., odds are this was a $1 billion+ hit. Which was all preventable by proper screening of a Chechen who returned from Russia after a mysterious 6 month trip. PC is going to kill us and we're more than happy to load the gun which is going to zap us.... - Johngaltfla
http://www.examiner.com/article/marathon-bombing-terrorists-could-cost-the-city-of-boston-nearly-1-billion
Isn't this the same MO the USA used to bankrupt Russia... expediting their withdrawal from Afghanistan?
The USA would spend $6,000 to arm mujahadeen with a surface to air missile to take out a helicopter costing Russians $300,000K.
And the FED will print up all the money needed to pay for the humvees, tanks, etc., tc., the private contractors will do swift business, and the gov'ts will tell the people "It's because of the terrorists that we can't afford to provide you with proper healthcare, schooling etc. Blame the terrorists."
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I don't mean to make it sound like this is a win for terrorists. Just that it seems like a pretty bad message to send that a self trained terrorist with the help of his teen bother can shut down a major city and hurt the country to the tune of 300 to a billion dollars. If anything that sounds like it could encourage self trained nuts or terrorist groups.
lol can you post all your complaining when bush spent 4 trillion to get osama bin laden,hey but i'm sure yourself and" I am the best at it
Period" could have did it better. keyboards in one hand, ipods in the other blaring out this song :D :D :D
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lol can you post all your complaining when bush spent 4 trillion to get osama bin laden,hey but i'm sure yourself and" I am the best at it
Period" could have did it better. keyboards in one hand, ipods in the other blaring out this song :D :D :D
No doubt I could have.
Why bring up Bush?
You do realize I voted for Obama in 2008 right?
There must be hundreds if not thousands of posts where I've criticized Bush. Terrible deflection.
Does it suck to have no marketable skill? You sound like someone with low self esteem if you don't have something you feel you excel in.
Maybe you should talk to someone about that.
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No doubt I could have.
Why bring up Bush?
You do realize I voted for Obama in 2008 right?
There must be hundreds if not thousands of posts where I've criticized Bush. Terrible deflection.
Does it suck to have no marketable skill? You sound like someone with low self esteem if you don't have something you feel you excel in.
Maybe you should talk to someone about that.
why don't you fill us in on what you would have done.because right now your sounding like a fucking fool
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lol can you post all your complaining when bush spent 4 trillion to get osama bin laden,hey but i'm sure yourself and" I am the best at it
Period" could have did it better. keyboards in one hand, ipods in the other blaring out this song :D :D :D
Get something real to say or get yourself a nice long ban with your trolling BS. This isn't about Bush or Osama and I did bitch about the crap that shouldn't have happened under Bush. Lots of people did, many of them libs you fucking hypocrite. At least I'm consistent on shit like this.
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Think about it, they just watched two complete numbnuts, one just a teen shut down a whole city without hardly spending anything and it taking 10,000 agents to track down and they were not even the ones who found him. Shit, what if they actually had a good plan for escaping? Seriously, terrorists gotta be totally excited over what they just saw happen if this is what they get away with, with only a halfbaked plan.
I thought we signed all these crazy laws and acts along with spending mega billions on homeland security and spying on everyone to be on top of shit like this? LOL...
x 100
If that guy did not go out for a smoke near the boat - they never would have found the kid until days later after he bled out.
Total FAIL
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Lessons of Boston
What the fanatics took away
By RALPH PETERS
Last Updated: 3:44 AM, April 23, 2013
Posted: 10:37 PM, April 22, 2013
Ralph Peters
The superb work of our law-enforcement officials in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing ignited a blaze of self-congratulation that obscured the event’s implications.
Yeah, we killed one fanatic and nabbed the other. But our dysfunctional system couldn’t prevent this latest Boston Massacre.
That carnage was a dirt-cheap terrorist triumph. Fanatics will take its lessons to their shriveled jihadi hearts:
Lesson No. 1: Two amateur terrorists can paralyze a major American city for days. The Tsarnaev punks generated global headlines, ran up millions in government expenses, punished a major metro-area economy and disrupted society. And now we’ve got a costly civilian trial to come for the surviving brother — with more headlines to inspire copycats.
Reuters
The pain remains: A man kneeling yesterday at the makeshift memorial on Boylston Street, shortly after Boston observed a moment of silence for the victims.
We’re relieved that the two young terrorists were “brought to justice” and delude ourselves that we “won.” Uh-uh. At the cost of two expendable young thugs, a few guns and a couple of homemade bombs, radical Islam generated a bloodbath that created genuine terror on our soil.
Al Qaeda and its ilk have long used suicide bombers and doomed assassins to rupture societies in the Middle East, killing tens of thousands of Muslims (a fact we fail to exploit in our lame “information campaigns”). Now the Islamists are in the export business. Expect more of these low-cost, high-return missions within our borders.
Lesson No. 2: The best weapons against targets in the US are disaffected legal immigrants or radicalized native-born converts to jihad. Political correctness — a pathetic fanaticism of our own — and legal paralysis make it virtually impossible to stop legal residents such as the Tsarnaev brothers before they commit a crime.
The FBI questioned Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother, after the Russians asked us to look into his radicalization. (Moscow’s murky role is another story.) It appears that the agents asked him, Are you a Muslim fanatic? To which he replied, No. End of investigation.
Get inside the red-white-and-blue tent legally, and you, the terrorist, have a license to kill.
Lesson No. 3: Our immigration system is one of terrorism’s best allies. Related to the last point, this is a case of just how idiotic a politically correct bureaucracy can be. The father of the Tsarnaev punks only had to declare himself an asylum-seeker afraid for his life in the Russian Federation and our consular officials fell all over themselves to get him to America.
Nobody cared that “fearful” Pops retained his Russian citizenship and passport, then voluntarily returned to Daghestan, a jihad-roiled Russian province, to live. Or that his elder son’s dream vacation appears to have been a terrorist training session.
If you’re a highly educated, ambitious West European who wants to become an American, your chances are near zero. If you’re a radical America-hater from a hostile region, all you have to do is shout that you’re a political refugee and we’ll give you residency and benefits.
There’s no reason that anyone from Chechnya should be granted a US visa. It’s a gangster mini-state (within the Russian Federation) at war with home-grown Islamists. There are no good guys. Chechnya’s sole export besides terror, Chechen mafiosi, make Mexican drug cartels look like Franciscans. And some of the cruelest jihadis our troops faced in Iraq and elsewhere were Chechens who joined al Qaeda.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/lessons_of_boston_BagZdYICMOYhYeBhdJX0HM
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Get something real to say or get yourself a nice long ban with your trolling BS. This isn't about Bush or Osama and I did bitch about the crap that shouldn't have happened under Bush. Lots of people did, many of them libs you fucking hypocrite. At least I'm consistent on shit like this.
can you post when you complained about all the money they spent getting osama,i must have missed it.why am i a hypocrite i'm not the one crying how much money they spent getting them two assholes
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why don't you fill us in on what you would have done.because right now your sounding like a fucking fool
First thing (and most reasonable) would be I would have gone about my day as normal. I would have reduced the police presence and NEVER had the citizens basically under house arrest.
As is ALWAYS the case in these instances (including this one), it's always a member of the public who finds the criminals.
Do you remember the DC sniper? He was stopped by a truck driver... A truck driver who conveniently put his rig in front of the car so they could not escape... Walked away from it and called the cops.
Had they allowed the citizens out of their houses from jump, the person who called them would have found their tarp moved and the blood stain hours and hours earlier.
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your working now with knowing the facts,lets remember they didn't know how hurt he was,they didn't know if he had any bombs,for all they knew he might go to some crowded place and go out in a blaze of glory,i guess to the FBI time wasn't on their side
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your working now with knowing the facts,lets remember they didn't know how hurt he was,they didn't know if he had any bombs,for all they knew he might go to some crowded place and go out in a blaze of glory,i guess to the FBI time wasn't on their side
As I said, based on previous times, when the citizens ALWAYS catch these types of people, I would have done it.
It was even mentioned (on the board) before they found him that an ordinary citizen would be the person who found him... Oh look. It was.
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well the FBI thinks your wrong,the police think your wrong,i guess i'll have to go with the FBI over a guy on getbig on this one as would probably most of the people in the u.s, call me crazy
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well the FBI thinks your wrong,the police think your wrong,i guess i'll have to go with the FBI over a guy on getbig on this one as would probably most of the people in the u.s, call me crazy
The FBI also let this guy pass in 2011, arrested the wrong guy in the ricin attack, etc., yeah lets suck cock of the FBI cause they are always perfect. ::)
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The FBI also let this guy pass in 2011, arrested the wrong guy in the ricin attack, etc., yeah lets suck cock of the FBI cause they are always perfect. ::)
who saya their perfect,as far as i know they're human and humans make mistakes,whats with you and talking about sucking cock
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well the FBI thinks your wrong,the police think your wrong,i guess i'll have to go with the FBI over a guy on getbig on this one as would probably most of the people in the u.s, call me crazy
You can go along with them if you want, but history has show that people like that are generally caught by ordinary citizens... Just like they were this time.
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You can go along with them if you want, but history has show that people like that are generally caught by ordinary citizens... Just like they were this time.
i don't remember can you post when bombers are caught by citizens
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can you post when you complained about all the money they spent getting osama,i must have missed it.why am i a hypocrite i'm not the one crying how much money they spent getting them two assholes
::) if you want to spend time looking through posts be my guest but I'm pretty sure others remember me being critical of the farce that's DHS, TSA etc along with all the posts where I was critical of a totally pointless war against Iraq. I definitely talked about how I thought the crap we were doing there would probably make us less safe and was a massive financial cost.
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i don't remember can you post when bombers are caught by citizens
Like 3 days ago.
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Like 3 days ago.
;D yeah, i know that one
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;D yeah, i know that one
When it comes to searching for criminals, it's always the more the better... Citizens being out and on the lookout will always stop terrorists.
The DC sniper was a terrorist, just not a bomber. He was caught by regular people. It's always regular people man.
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I don't mean to make it sound like this is a win for terrorists. Just that it seems like a pretty bad message to send that a self trained terrorist with the help of his teen bother can shut down a major city and hurt the country to the tune of 300 to a billion dollars. If anything that sounds like it could encourage self trained nuts or terrorist groups.
This IS a win. When they can forcefully remove people and search their homes, and the majority of people seem to support this stormtrooper mentality, then they can certainly chaulk this up as a win.