I figured out a brilliant way to catch terrorists

[bif]

Okay, they cancelled flights from London to several destinations a week in advance because of suspected terrorist activities. Why? Why not keep the flights on schedule? Make sure there are plenty of air marshalls on board. Then, before the plane takes off, get everybody off the plane and nail the terrorists? Why tip our hand hand that we know what they're up to? Think it would work?

[FreakinDJ]

1. It is too much like the way Clinton used to stop 15 Terrorist

It is too much like the way Clinton used to stop 15 terrorist attacks for the Bush admin to even consider it.

The Clinton admin quietly dumped billions into Intel and successfully, quietly stopped and rounded these guys up. The Bush admin is using 911 for political gain.

Tom Dashel was the first to come out publicly on TV to describe what he said was "They could not have politically gained any more then for the events of 911 to unfold"

It is clear to everyone the Bush admin is not really out to catch terrorist as they are to further the agenda of big business profit rape of the American Tax payer

[doc03]

2. I think this is more about keeping fear up than finding terrorists.

That's like saying we are going to watch Bank One on main street, we
think someone could rob it. In the mean time the robbers go across town and hit their branch office.

[bif]

3. But the question is, wouldn't this work?

Wouldn't capturing terrorists be better PR for Bush than keeping us in fear?

[jmowreader]

6. Fear is better for them

Scenario: I'm a locksmith. I want to make more money--the commercial market is saturated and the homeowner market buys Quiksets from home improvement warehouses. And I have some buddies on the city council, and the newspaper managing editor is my next-door neighbor.

To improve my business, I could do lots of advertising in newspapers, give interviews on how important great locks are, all that stuff. Or I could invite my next-door neighbor over and ask him to publish the brand of lock on the doors of all the houses that get broken into for the next four months, and I'll run half-page ads for the next six in exchange. Then I invite my city councilmen friends over and inform them I'll give the schools half a million dollars, but only if they'll match it...and by the way, couldn't we get some of your matching funds from the police budget? Then I call my not-so-scrupulous friends and ask them to have a lot of houses with Home Depot locks on the doors burglarized. Next thing you know, there's a crime wave in this town and only people with Schlage, Quikset and Defiant locks are being hit. But you can go to Keep-m-Out Locksmithing and buy a Medeco lock that no one who's been hit has had on their door. Next thing you know, I'm a Medeco Million Dollar Store (or whatever Medeco gives to the stores that do 300-percent positive comps).

Fear worked better in my scenario, and it does with the BFEE. No fucking way we'd let those dirtbags run around screaming Osama! if we weren't scared Osama was gonna put broken glass in the sandbox at the school.

[KansDem]

9. Reminds me of a story my mom used to tell...

She grew up on a farm. One day an insurance salesman came around to talk to her dad about fire insurance. I'm not certain of the specifics: whether it was a new policy, an increase on an existing policy, or whether the house was insured and not the barn. Anyway, my grandpa refused. Within a week or two, their barn burned down. Suspicious? Sure. Co-incidence? They thought so.

But my mom always wonder thereafter how many other farmers in the area suddenly realized they needed that fire insurance...

[KansDem]

8. Yes, it would work...

... and, as you acknowledged, it would be better PR. But the Bushistas operate on fear and this plan would quash that.

Now that you mentioned it, didn't Bush say something about victories (in the war on terror) being unknown?:

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911jointsessionspeech.htm

One might think that successful covert operations could be made know afterward in order to bolster support and confidence from the American people, but I don't recall too many "successes" being trumpeted by the Bushistas. Usually, they will occasionally use the media to parade around someone "caught" who is a suspected terrorist operative. But very little about "successful" operations (please enlighten me if otherwise).

Because promoting fear is how they operate. And successful campaigns would erode that fear, exposing the Bushistas for the corrupt, criminal empire builders they are.

[Romulus]

4. That's what I was wondereing

If there's all this "credible evidence," why not stake the damn plane out and arrest the suspect as he/she tries to get on it? It's like staking out a bank and arresting the bank robbers when they arrive at the bank door.

[Brian Sweat]

5. Silly Wabbit

Any punk ass president can have his men quietly arrest the terraists. It takes a genius to to scare the feces out of everyone with terra alerts.

[Ysabel]

7. kinda like sirens on police cars...

here we come everybody run...

[radwriter0555]

10. There are no terrorists.

Simple as that.

[bif]

11. Actually, this administration are the true terrorists.

n/t