“A pre-Christmas 2003 “Code Orange” terror alert that had police standing guard in heavy assault gear on the streets of Manhattan was the result of a scam by a man named Dennis Montgomery.” From Playboy.
Tag: terrorism
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Political Correctness Kills?
No.
My buddy Ron Smith has a column with the headline: “Fort Hood massacre shows how political correctness can kill.” (just for record, columnists don’t write headlines.)
I’m not a fan of political correctness (though I like being polite) and don’t consider myself very politically correct (though I try and be considerate). But I’m pretty certain that political correctness does not kill.
Just because shooter Major Nidal Hasan expressed some things that are now seen as warnings and just because he’s Muslim… does that mean these signs were ignored because of “political correctness”? I don’t think so. More likely nobody did anything because, I don’t know, how can you know and what are you going to do?
If you’re a cop reading this, ask yourself this: how many of the cops that you work with are, to some kind of scary degree, crazy? I don’t know how you define crazy, it’s entirely up to you. But perhaps you can use this definition: If you heard that he flipped (and I’m assuming it’s a guy) and shot somebody–maybe an ex girlfriend or complete stranger or themselves–if you heard this would you think, “I guess that wasn’t a complete surprise.” How many of these people do you know? I’ll bet it’s more than one.
So what have you done with that information? Called 911? Told internal affairs? Of course not. You talk to your friends to make sure you’re not the only one who thinks this. I mean, you want to make sure he’s crazy and you’re not, right?
You talk about it. You laugh about it. And then you do nothing. You do nothing not because you’re afraid of liberals and the ACLU or the politically correct police. Since when did you care about these groups? You don’t do anything because, well, who the f*ck knows?! There are lots of crazy people. Some of cops and some are soldiers. But most take the their meds and even more manage just fine.
And every now and then one does flip. And in hindsight the “signs” often seem clear. But now, for the first time in America, one of these crazy mass-murdering shooters is Muslim. And now people think that if only we’re weren’t so worried about offending Muslim, this would have been stopped? Since when we were so worried about offending Muslim?
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Marine reservist attacks Greek priest
Why? Because marine reservist Jasen Bruce said he “looked like a terrorist.” He doesn’t. He looks like a Greek priest.
Why? Because Bruce said he tried to rob him. He didn’t. He’s a priest.
Why? Because the man yelled “Allahu Akbar.” He didn’t. He’s a priest.
Why? Because the man grabbed Bruce’s crotch and made sexual advances in perfect English. He didn’t. [But feel free to insert priest joke here… they make the same jokes in Greece.]
The priest was lost.
The marine is an idiot and should be jailed. But the priest is forgiving.
Here’s the story in the St. Petersburg Times by Alexandra Zayas and Demorris Lee:
A Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.
What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.
Dude, do you really think a terrorist just walked down the street and happened to pick on you, the one patriotic American ready to defend himself and his country by beating a man of God with a tire iron?
Bruce is a sales manager for APS Pharmacy in Palm Harbor. His blog entries tout the benefits of increasing testosterone and human growth hormones. He was charged with misdemeanor battery in 2007…
Online photo galleries depict him flexing big muscles wearing little clothing.
An exterior surveillance video of Tuesday’s chase captured the two men in motion, said Tampa Police Department spokeswoman Laura McElroy:
“You see a very short, small man running, and an enormous, large muscular man chasing after him.”
What a f*cking idiot. It’s sh*t like this that makes me a little more sympathetic to the Flying Imams.
Here’s Bruce’s mugshot:
And also reminds me of one of my favorite jokes. It ends like this: “For you it’s a tragedy. For me it’s a mistake!”
Update: In the case of the marine reservist who attached a priest for looking like a Muslim terrorist, all charges were dropped. The priest didn’t stick around America to press charges. To rehash, this idiot chased a Greek priest for three blocks and beat him with a tire iron while telling a 911 operator (listen to the call here):
I got a guy who’s trying to mug me. … He just grabbed my f—— b—- when I got out of my car. … I just hit him with a tire iron and he’s trying to take off. He said he was going to f—— kill me. … This guy’s not gonna come back. I wanna knock him out.
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He looks like a Middle Eastern guy, a Taliban guy. … He straight up looks like he came from Afghanistan … knows where I live and knows what I drive and I’m not letting him come back. I’ll kill him. I got a wife.So let me get this straight. This priest, who says he was lost, looked like he was from Afghanistan, tried to rob the idiot, then grabbed his balls, and then yelled “Allahu Akbar.”
Ohkaaay.
The prosecuting lawyer called this ‘roid rage noting the attacker is “a 220-pound pharmacy manager who blogs photos of himself flexing his muscles and had worked as a drug informant for police.”
The attacker, after charges were dropped, says he forgives the priest. Gee, that’s mighty Christian of him.
Here’s a picture of the attacker.
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Greek Police Attacked in Terrorist Attack
Six shot. The AP story by Derek Gatopoulos: “Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a suburban Athens police station with automatic weapons late Tuesday, wounding six police officers.”
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‘Flying imams’ settlement
Seems to me a request for a not-needed seat-belt extension alone is grounds for suspicion. Here’s an account in USA Today.
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Terrorist Plot to Destroy New York City
Some desperate [terrorists] decided to [destroy American cities]. The idea was to … team up with disaffected [locals] to wreak havoc. For New York City the plans were particularly grandiose. [Terrorists] would infiltrate the country from Canada, make their way to the metropolis, and set off fires around town.
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[Terrorists] would revenge the [destruction of their land] by ravaging [America], beginning with gay, rich, and carefree New York City. They would start by incinerating the opulent symbols of the city’s wealth, its glittering hotels. With luck, and a good wind, they might burn New York to the ground.On the night of November 25, the conspirators set their fires in thirteen major hotels, chiefly along Broadway, including the Astor House, the Metropolitan, and the St. Nicholas… For good measure, the [terrorists] kindled would-be conflagrations in Barnum’s Museum, Niblo’s Theater, the Winter Garden, and assorted Hudson River docks, lumberyards, stores, and factories, before making good their escape to Canada.
As blazes broke out all along Broadway, terrified crowds poured in the street. Police wagons and fire engines fought their way through dense crowds of people screaming, “Find the rebels! Hang them from a lamppost! Burn them at the stake!”
As you can tell, I’ve selectively changed a few words from this passage. The “terrorists” were not crazy Muslims but Confederates agents. This wasn’t last week but 1864. Despite extensive property damage, the fires were extinguished and the city didn’t burn down.
A year later, just one conspirator, Robert Kennedy, was caught, tried as a spy, and hanged. The other conspirators escaped justice. I had never heard of this plot to destroy New York. It goes to show that modern-day terrorism is not just some new-fangled Islamic invention.
The passage is from pages 902 and 903 of Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace’s excellent (and pre-2001) Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. This book is shocking long (I don’t think I’ve ever been on page 900 of a book before) and amazingly good.
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Terror Case Serious
The New York Timesreports:
Documents filed in Brooklyn against the driver, Najibullah Zazi, contend he bought chemicals needed to build a bomb — hydrogen peroxide, acetone and hydrochloric acid — and in doing so, Mr. Zazi took a critical step made by few other terrorism suspects.
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“The ingredients here are quite scary,” and the government’s statements have had none of the bombast and exaggeration that accompanied some previous arrest announcements.
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“You don’t manufacture homemade TATP explosives unless you want to kill people and destroy infrastructure.”
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In some earlier investigations, federal officials seized on what were widely viewed as marginal cases in an apparent effort to show results and justify aggressive steps being taken in the campaign against terrorism. As a result, people in and out of government have become dubious about assertions of the grave danger posed by any particular group of defendants. -
NYPD Confidential
Leonard Levitt writes a good column. He has some harsh words for the NYPD Intelligence Division and the recent NYPD/FBI/terrorism case.
The Intelligence Division under Cohen and his crony, Assistant Commissioner Larry Sanchez, is operating as a mini-CIA with no accountability and with no model to guide it.
Now it appears that these lone wolves appear to have mishandled the investigation into the city’s first known major terrorism threat since 9/ll.
One can only wonder how many other terrorism suspects were the subjects of NYPD conversations with Afzali–and how many of them he alerted.
Here’s the latest in the Times.
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Ohhhh….
I couldn’t figure out this the whole let-the-terrorist-go thing the Brits did.
I think the New York Times may cut to the chase:
Colonel Qaddafi made his remarks as British and Scottish officials were doing their best to distance themselves from Mr. Megrahi’s release, which they insisted was decided without any pressure from London by Scotland’s justice secretary, and based solely on compassion for Mr. Megrahi’s terminal cancer, not Britain’s desire for multibillion-dollar Libyan oil contracts.
I see…
Well, I never trusted them limeys, anyway. Long live the spirit of 1776! Viva La France!
Besides, it’s not like we would ever make any dumb foreign policy decisions because of oil.
[dramatic pause]
I’m just happy I can call my fries french fries again. And maybe tomorrow I’ll have a nice freedom breakfast, you know, that breakfast with bangers and those crappy cooked tomatoes. And I’ll add a toasted buttered freedom muffin to soak up the egg yolk.
Meanwhile in unrelated news, a Kentucky prison burns. As does north suburban Athens.
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Good job, FBI & NYPD
Plot foiled. The story in the Post.