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taxslave

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Folks did not wake up one morning and say they are going to make life miserable for the US and make horrific statements via terror acts. It has been building for some time.


Actually we did wake up one morning to see muslim terrorists park airplanes in the WTC. If that isn't terrorism I don't know what is.
 

TenPenny

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Folks did not wake up one morning and say they are going to make life miserable for the US and make horrific statements via terror acts. It has been building for some time.


Actually we did wake up one morning to see muslim terrorists park airplanes in the WTC. If that isn't terrorism I don't know what is.

Of course that's terrorism. Mind you, the leader was trained, funded, and supported by the US. Which might be what the original post was alluding to.

We also woke up one morning to hear that Canadian terrorists blew up a 747 over Scotland, with quite a few Canadians on board, but many people don't think of this as a domestic act of terrorism. Which it was, of course. Why people are so quick to skip over that, I don't know.
 

taxslave

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Of course that's terrorism. Mind you, the leader was trained, funded, and supported by the US. Which might be what the original post was alluding to.

We also woke up one morning to hear that Canadian terrorists blew up a 747 over Scotland, with quite a few Canadians on board, but many people don't think of this as a domestic act of terrorism. Which it was, of course. Why people are so quick to skip over that, I don't know.

The people(I use the term loosely) responsible for that one are not even really Canadians but immigrants that brought a centuries old battle from their homeland with them to our country.
 

Ocean Breeze

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Folks did not wake up one morning and say they are going to make life miserable for the US and make horrific statements via terror acts. It has been building for some time.


Actually we did wake up one morning to see muslim terrorists park airplanes in the WTC. If that isn't terrorism I don't know what is.

What I am saying is that those that have turned to terrorism , and have caused so much havoc on the planet....EVEN BEFORE 9-11 ( how can folks dismiss the terror attacks that took place BEFORE 9-11 while using 9-11 as the only one that really mattered??) have been building up to a major event like 9-11 for some time. Does one have to list all the terror attacks that took place BEFORE 9-11 for people to realize that they must have been in some semi conscious state until 9-11.

Just because the previous attacks took place away from the N .American continent, and were against US interests and pollitical connections , does not make them less of a terror attack. Why did it have to take one that was so DRAMATIC , to take place for folks to sit up and take notice.

Isn't this another example of where politicians and the populous have missed cues, and the boat........??? The pattern was building for a long time. Each attack against US interest has been a signal that things were not as they seemed or what the US propaganda indicated.

The US has been funding terror groups when it suited its political purposes for a long time. Just like it supported SH until he decided to go with the Euro and that displeased the USG. The US has played one party against another for its own gains since it was born. Maybe folks should really examine the behaviors that just might have contributed to the degree of terrorism that eixts now. Did we contribute to it with the policies we execute?? That's a no brainer. Of course we did.
 

TenPenny

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The people(I use the term loosely) responsible for that one are not even really Canadians but immigrants that brought a centuries old battle from their homeland with them to our country.

And the people responsible for the WTC attack were, oddly enough, not Americans. So what's your point? The WTC attack should not be considered a terrorist attack because the people who did it were foreigners?
 

taxslave

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Of course that's terrorism. Mind you, the leader was trained, funded, and supported by the US. Which might be what the original post was alluding to.

We also woke up one morning to hear that Canadian terrorists blew up a 747 over Scotland, with quite a few Canadians on board, but many people don't think of this as a domestic act of terrorism. Which it was, of course. Why people are so quick to skip over that, I don't know.

This was not an act of domestic terrorism since those responsible were not Canadians, It had nothing to do with Canada other than the flight originated here, nor did it happen in Canada. The WTC happened in the US which makes it domestic even though those responsible were not Americans but carried out a cowardly attack on innocent Americans and other civilians that happened to be in the WTC at the time.
 

gopher

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What they brand themselves as doesn't mean a bloody thing....

Eg: you brand yourself as No Political Affiliation....but everything you write is "(L)iberal:roll:

Even when I take a pro life, anti income tax position, and use links from conservatives antiwar.com and Pat Buchanan?

Try again, buddy. Take off the blinders before you do it.
 

Ariadne

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To suggest that because it takes "two to tango", if one person stops, the other will also stop ... makes no sense to me.
 

winespius

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Chomsky is self loathing babbling fool ....and anyone that believe one work that flake utters falls into the same category
 

Cliffy

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Chomsky is self loathing babbling fool ....and anyone that believe one work that flake utters falls into the same category
So, you disagree with Chomsky's point of view. What point of view would be acceptable to you? Inquiring minds want to know.
 

Ocean Breeze

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"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you have to focus on" - G W Bush


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"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." --Adolf Hitler
 

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Chomsky is self loathing babbling fool ....and anyone that believe one work that flake utters falls into the same category


Yes, right on bro: I'd much rather believe Geo.W. and Faux News.

Anyone who makes statements such as yours, knows all about self loathing........

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you have to focus on" - G W Bush


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"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." --Adolf Hitler


Did Bush really say that? Someone must have written it for him; it's far too clever.

Likewise the quote from Addy.

Both of them shallow greedy monsters.
 

Ocean Breeze

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Yes, right on bro: I'd much rather believe Geo.W. and Faux News.

Anyone who makes statements such as yours, knows all about self loathing........

LOL !!!


Did Bush really say that? Someone must have written it for him; it's far too clever.

Likewise the quote from Addy.

Both of them shallow greedy monsters.

Yep. bush SAID that. Does not mean it wasn't written by someone else. Although.......IMHO.....it is a very bushlike "ism".

About Adolf ....... well he at least was smart. He also had a serious mood disorder. What used to be called Manic -Depressive disorder. So he , besides being a criminal of the century........he was seriously mentally disturbed and should never have gotten into such level of power.