How alert did they have to be? An old clunker parked in a place where it would positively be noticed. Two people who apparently spend quite a bit of time in the place. They saw something not particularly normal. Being good citizens of an absolutely great place, they reported it to a cop who happened to be nearby.
Cop checks it out. No dead body. No back seat full of coke. No missing tires and wheels. “Something” in the back that looked odd.
You folks should know that most criminal acts are reported by citizens who happened to see something out of place and take the time to say something about it.
That is what the statement, “I am my brother’s keeper” is all about.
53 hours and 20 minutes to CATCH the guy who was another failed dunce. How were we doing in Afghanistan and Iraq after 53 MONTHS???
I’d say we’re improving, and I thank ALL those folks from the vendor to the cop to the FBI that served as “back-up” on a chain of events to make a successful arrest. BTW, even after being “Mirandized” the guy was squealing like a pig. The movie image of folks always shutting up after being advised of their rights is mostly in the movies. Ego and stupidity usually trips these folks up anyway- that is the real fact.
Yes, they quickly rounded up the guy, read him his rights and he absolutely spilled his guts. So the law can do this thing and not shred the Constitution.
what no “enhanced interrogation”? no rendition? he’s already been charged and he hasn’t even gotten onto a plane for Guantanamo? George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Co. are not obsolete dinosaurs!
I loved to tell all the kiddies at my local university,who are screaming about how bad laws are,that profile Muslims and Mexicans,and foreign people,that campuses and colleges are so vulnerable,little baby child centers of innocent,dumb,and completely unprotected kids of the bad American white(and non)people ;and eventually any enemy will realize that.
College campuses are just like down town Manhattan,New York,just so vulnerable to any attacker,who seeks to hit very vulnerable spots of America. C’mon,those college kids are so without brains,they think a rat is a white mouse in the lab!!
Girls get attacked and raped on vulnerable campuses all the time;you think any enemy or crazy Pakistani will not realize that,sooner or later,and say”hey,we can hit the bad Americans’ kids!!ALL of them are just SITTING DUCKS!!!they won;t see us coming,they will welcome us as “ethinic” and stuff like that!!They have no security on campuses,and it’s oozing with cute,young,innocent,and completely brain-dead little American children,who think a terrorist,is someone who toilet-papers your windows,on a frat-party night!!”
I hate to say it,but also college campuses have some of the most clue-less, Ivory-tower,secluded,and completely divorced from reality people; yeah,students.
Students have this distorted idea of reality, “life is supposed to be FAIR.”Ever try arguing with a college student?They will pull the “that is NOT FAIR!!those things in life are NOT FAIR!!they should all be FIXED!! Everyone should be EQUAL,WITH THE SAME MONEY!! Oh,and money is not important!!No,you do not need MONEY IN LIFE!! LOVE is more important than money!! Everyone on the planet should all just LOVE ONE ANOTHER. That would fix everything!!” (little hearts and flowers,and UN banners flying amid chirping blue-birds.)
I do not think a terrorist could visualize a college,and college students.The terrorist would break in to the apartment of the student,in the middle of the night,and the student would say,”Oh,are you in foreign studies?Would you like a Late?Or do you take Turkish coffee?Gee,your mask is so interesting?Is that a native design of your country?Wow,what is that??It’s a GUN?What’s a GUN?? I seem to remember something about guns on old tv westerns,they do not exsist in the US anymore.Only in foreign wars. I never participate in foreign wars,they are not fair.”
T Gabriel Premium Member about 14 years ago
How alert did they have to be? An old clunker parked in a place where it would positively be noticed. Two people who apparently spend quite a bit of time in the place. They saw something not particularly normal. Being good citizens of an absolutely great place, they reported it to a cop who happened to be nearby.
Cop checks it out. No dead body. No back seat full of coke. No missing tires and wheels. “Something” in the back that looked odd.
You folks should know that most criminal acts are reported by citizens who happened to see something out of place and take the time to say something about it.
That is what the statement, “I am my brother’s keeper” is all about.
Dtroutma about 14 years ago
53 hours and 20 minutes to CATCH the guy who was another failed dunce. How were we doing in Afghanistan and Iraq after 53 MONTHS???
I’d say we’re improving, and I thank ALL those folks from the vendor to the cop to the FBI that served as “back-up” on a chain of events to make a successful arrest. BTW, even after being “Mirandized” the guy was squealing like a pig. The movie image of folks always shutting up after being advised of their rights is mostly in the movies. Ego and stupidity usually trips these folks up anyway- that is the real fact.
deadheadzan about 14 years ago
Yes, they quickly rounded up the guy, read him his rights and he absolutely spilled his guts. So the law can do this thing and not shred the Constitution.
treered about 14 years ago
what no “enhanced interrogation”? no rendition? he’s already been charged and he hasn’t even gotten onto a plane for Guantanamo? George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Co. are not obsolete dinosaurs!
MrDichotomies about 14 years ago
Trillions of dollars [supposedly] fighting a war against terrorism and the latest one is caught by a street vendor…
doreet about 14 years ago
I loved to tell all the kiddies at my local university,who are screaming about how bad laws are,that profile Muslims and Mexicans,and foreign people,that campuses and colleges are so vulnerable,little baby child centers of innocent,dumb,and completely unprotected kids of the bad American white(and non)people ;and eventually any enemy will realize that.
College campuses are just like down town Manhattan,New York,just so vulnerable to any attacker,who seeks to hit very vulnerable spots of America. C’mon,those college kids are so without brains,they think a rat is a white mouse in the lab!!
Girls get attacked and raped on vulnerable campuses all the time;you think any enemy or crazy Pakistani will not realize that,sooner or later,and say”hey,we can hit the bad Americans’ kids!!ALL of them are just SITTING DUCKS!!!they won;t see us coming,they will welcome us as “ethinic” and stuff like that!!They have no security on campuses,and it’s oozing with cute,young,innocent,and completely brain-dead little American children,who think a terrorist,is someone who toilet-papers your windows,on a frat-party night!!”
I hate to say it,but also college campuses have some of the most clue-less, Ivory-tower,secluded,and completely divorced from reality people; yeah,students.
Students have this distorted idea of reality, “life is supposed to be FAIR.”Ever try arguing with a college student?They will pull the “that is NOT FAIR!!those things in life are NOT FAIR!!they should all be FIXED!! Everyone should be EQUAL,WITH THE SAME MONEY!! Oh,and money is not important!!No,you do not need MONEY IN LIFE!! LOVE is more important than money!! Everyone on the planet should all just LOVE ONE ANOTHER. That would fix everything!!” (little hearts and flowers,and UN banners flying amid chirping blue-birds.)
I do not think a terrorist could visualize a college,and college students.The terrorist would break in to the apartment of the student,in the middle of the night,and the student would say,”Oh,are you in foreign studies?Would you like a Late?Or do you take Turkish coffee?Gee,your mask is so interesting?Is that a native design of your country?Wow,what is that??It’s a GUN?What’s a GUN?? I seem to remember something about guns on old tv westerns,they do not exsist in the US anymore.Only in foreign wars. I never participate in foreign wars,they are not fair.”
Dapperdan61 Premium Member about 14 years ago
I wonder how Uncle Dick will spin this by having a terrorist threat stopped & unable to say to Obama I told you so