How many of the activities listed are ordinary things that ordinary people do? Or used to do before they became too afraid to do them anymore because of things like this. When the population is too afraid or is spying on its neighbors or government becomes oppressive in the name of protecting the people, the terrorists have achieved their goal.
But don’t you feel safer?
This video was bullshit the first time I saw it and it didn’t get any better with age.
this is exactly the kind of knee jerk reaction that has people calling for every little thing like taking pictures of landmarks (buildings).
Some people take pictures of bridges and power plants for the hell of it. I don’t but some do.
Now what, we go on vacation and stand at the end of the Golden Gate bridge and asking people about it and get the police called on us?
Terrorists, correct me if I’m wrong, are not especially clever. A doctrine that sends it’s best and bravest to a certain death, leaves behind only old men and a lot of young virgins. Wait a second..
Makes me glad I’m not a land developer or downtown redeveloper.
I’d be a terrorist!
Gotta love how every mid-level politician and police chief is now a seminar away from being an expert on terrorism…
Wow, this reminds me of the ‘Modern Jackass’ episode of ‘This American Life’
The person talks with such authority on something she really knows little of. But perhaps she got briefed by her boss, or read it in an article somewhere and now she’s the authority, out to save the public.
Just like what they read in the last issue of ‘Modern Jackass’
I think she still has my copy.
I remember when people would actually go over to their neighbors to say hi, what the hell
Now, kiddies, if mommy or daddy EVER say anything mean about the President, you have to call the FBI, OK? Because, kids, your parents are possibly evil terrorists, and you are not really their kids. No. They probably killed you real mommy and daddy when you were a baby. Did you ever wonder why they like to be ALONE sometimes???
what terrorists?
so far, the only terror i’ve seen is that which the government has inflicted on it’s own people..
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(from under what rock was this video dug out from?)
So according to this video, if I’m out jogging (yeah right) and I pass someone sitting down, I should call the cops or DHS because they’re a TERRORIST!!
Can you remember how it was when you were growing up? I’m old now but i can still remember what it was like to be unafraid.
I feel sorry for the kids of today they must be scared shi*less!
I’m sorry we didn’t take care of business when we had the chance to.
The Terrorism war was won from square one. Instead of realising it was a propaganda fight, the US, UK and so on all took it as a guns and missiles fight. Instead of winning anything, we all just went and gave the other side more ammunition.
#10 Are you saying you were unafraid during the cold war? With repeated nuclear bunker drills and the like?
I’m a young guy, so excuse me if I’m ignorant on that, but I seem to recall reading that there was always the build up over commies coming to eat the little children, rape your dogs and whatever.
I don’t really see the terrorism thing as any different from “How to tell if your neighbor is a commie”
haha, note to terrorist the Paseo Missouri bridge has enough holes in it. Not that there is a crappy river “boat” casino 300 yards away. That park is also where KC has Ocktober Fest
8. Sending your troops to ‘democratise’ other countries.
I like how 4:00 mins in the girl reports the guy who is sitting on a park bench with a notebook. If that is the new bar for terrorism we’re all fukced.
#14:
I know.. glad I don’t live in the states.. I like to go sit in parks with laptop/pen & paper and write stuff… I must be public enemy #1 or something
I think the US Federal Government does at least 5 of the 7 signs. Does that make it a terrorist organization?
Using binoculars? Really? All those terrorist birders and tourists!
As a person who lived with terrorism, here’s what I concluded:
1) Suspicious people are never terrorists.
2) Governments focus on the LAST target, not the next. So, were screwed.
3) You can’t do much to protect yourself, anyway.
4) Even so, super-sizing your meal is far more likely to kill you.
Or running reds.
Or not getting the lump checked-out.
Or the gun you bought to protect yourself from the terrorists!
Just use bloody common sense. There were ‘terrorists’ 3,000 years ago in the Egyptian empire, 2,000 years ago in the Roman empire, 1,000 years ago in medieval Europe, and there will be terrorists 1,000 years from now. They’re always a tiny minority of nut balls. Since they ARE a tiny minority, they can’t literally bring down a system (did the Oklahoma City bombers stop “the government”?). What they CAN do…the ONLY thing they can do is do some symbolic scary act that gets the big powers to eat themselves (which is what we’ve been on the verge of doing since 9/11). Just use common sense, and otherwise ignore them. You CAN’T make reality perfectly safe, but the ODDS are still good for all of us. For those of you living in Wyoming, don’t get all hot and bothered about it, you’re 10,000 times more likely to die in a drunk driving accident than from terrorism.
Of course the terrorists have won!
We obsess about them.
We cannot help but think about them constantly because our “media” and “government” keeps ramming the fear of what they might do to us down our throats 24/7.
The constant 7.5 year long drumbeat of George Bush’s “War on Terror”® made terrorism as common as light bulbs and white bread.
Terrorism has been a common everyday word everywhere else in the world for ages.
And frankly, no, I don’t feel safer. Thanks a lot, GWB!