FBI Warns of Almanac-Terrorist link

welsh

welsh

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Apparently the FBI is cautioning that Almanac use could be linked to terrorism.

Dangerous information could be used to plot terrorist strikes throughout the US.

Dangerous Facts-
Statistics on High School students who don't use bike helmets
Lowest place in the US
Amount of rainfall in Death Valley

Next we might expect Rumsfeld to proclaim general book burning.

For more-

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1576793
 
Okay, this paranoia is going way too far. This is crazy. Everything nowadays is pinned on terrorists. Stupidity.

Interesting thing is that it's helping the terrorists. I've heard a lot of cases of delays or cancellations of flights and other such things when there could be a terrorist attack. A group of terrorist would only need to send a few e-mails stating some targets and some dates and flights get cancelled. How easy for them to cause chaos....
 
The Bush administration....gah....its like a factory that makes stupid. Almanac use is now considered terrorist activity? Are they going to arrest school teachers and throw them in Guantanamo because they used almanacs in a class assignment? I can see things like researching the blueprints of a power facility or something, but almanacs? Gah........just.....GAAAAH
 
welsh said:
Apparently the FBI is cautioning that Almanac use could be linked to terrorism.
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Thank goodness I don't have one of those. Of course, they might have something to say 'bout that copy of The Anarchist Cookbook sitting on the shelf... :shock:

Statistics on High School students who don't use bike helmets
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Ah yes, this sort of thing could be invaluable for those facets of a plot centered around causing post-incident chaos.

Lowest place in the US
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That would be the White House.

Amount of rainfall in Death Valley
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Indubitably. It is widely known that one of the chief aims of Al Qaida is to first undermine, then control climatic trends within the continental US of A in order to cause widespread economic hardship as well as undermining the American Way of Live (tm). (Which has more to do w/fashionable clothing free enterprise itself...)

Next we might expect Rumsfeld to proclaim general book burning.
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On a more serious note, has anyone heard of what became of Cheney's so-called "Gray List"? It was something that caused a small blip on the media radar back in '02, but quickly dropped out of sight. (It was supposedly a list of "unpatriotic" academicians, etc. known for voicing dissent.)

OTB
 
OnTheBounce said:
On a more serious note, has anyone heard of what became of Cheney's so-called "Gray List"? It was something that caused a small blip on the media radar back in '02, but quickly dropped out of sight. (It was supposedly a list of "unpatriotic" academicians, etc. known for voicing dissent.)
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I don't ever remember hearing about such a list. But if such a thing existed, it brings to mind images of McCarthy and the Red Scare. Look out Dick! There's terrorists in the senate!
 
Oh don't even go there. I've enough worries about martial law paranoia to have the second coming of McCarthyism as well.

I wonder if I can get a sweatshop job in Mexico...
 
We could probably open a few sweatshops in mexico and become millionaires. But, then Rummy would say we were really terrorist organizations, and he'd send some cruise missiles our way.
 
This whole terrorist scare reminds me of 1984's perpetual state of being at war, only in the real world, the situation is that of a perpetual stupidity. Like a Two-Minutes Hate only instead of a Goldstein at which everyone points and shouts, it's the entire Bush administration everyone laughs at in the big screen.
 
That definitely reminds me of Bowling for Columbine's talk of perpetual fear. The sad thing is that it works on most people...
 
Okay, bit of bad memory on my part it seems. A friend of mine was on sabatical and studying at UC Berkley a while back and I was sure she used the term "gray list", but it seems it's just a "hit list". I remember speaking to her about it very early in '02, but the actual incident took place in late '01, ca. November.

The perpetrator isn't Dick Cheney, but rather his better half, Lynne Cheney, who is a member of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. They released a list of 117 people, mostly leftist academicians, who they felt weren't good patriots. Here's a link to an article on the subject.

Unfortunately, it appears that the link within the article above to the ACTA's report (on the ACTA's official site) is dead. This isn't exactly news, so I suppose it's to be expected.

OTB
 
Role Player wrote:
This whole terrorist scare reminds me of 1984's perpetual state of being at war, only in the real world, the situation is that of a perpetual stupidity. Like a Two-Minutes Hate only instead of a Goldstein at which everyone points and shouts, it's the entire Bush administration everyone laughs at in the big screen.
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:D

My thoughts exactly. The only thing I would change would be that the two minute hate target would be either Osama or Saddam, depending on the seasonal tastes of the public. And yes, a lot of people laugh at bush, but still approve his ways...
Saddam's boring, all these trials n' stuff. He's evil, and those liberal pinko pussies better shut up. He isn't even a human being. He izz an *ORC*. Let's keel sumbody dat's more fun n' stuff. Gott mit uns.

[/cynical joke]
 
Morons. Everyone knows americans don't read books.

But it looks more like The Onion article to me.
 
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