The good people of Ithaca, Michigan haven't conceded the war on terror.
Posted on 08/11/2006 10:28:49 PM PDT by DannyTN
(TV5) -- While FBI agents pour into Caro another incident breaks out in Gratiot County. At approximately 11:35am August 11th police were called to the Dollar General Store in Ithaca after a" clerk in Ithaca became suspicious after two men came into the store, and became upset when they were turned down while trying to buy several disposal cell phones.
TV5's Mike Terry spoke with the clerk who called police. She said they were two "Middle Eastern" men and said they've been coming into the store weekly and buying disposable cell phones. She said the same thing was happening at the dollar general store in Alma.
You might think the clerk became suspicious because of what was going on in Caro but when we asked the clerk she said she wasn't even aware of what was going on.
The policy at their store is that they can only sell two cell phones, per person, per day. She saw the men put the phones in the trunk of the car and when she thought they were coming back in, she called 9-1-1.
We did talk to Ithaca police while there has been no crime committed-they do want to find these men, and run their names against government watch lists.
Thanks for the link, missed that thread.
Or as an alternative, systematically dial every single one of them on a random basis. Let 'em blow up in the terrorist's basement.
Two per explosion I believe. One to have the explosive attached to it and another to detonate it.
I have no way of knowing how long they talk, but it would be counterintuitive if they talked for long. And the whole point is to use a device for an extremely short period of time so as to make it more difficult to track down.
A hand full of autodialers ought to do the trick.
Sorry, but this idea is wrong. We need to stop proposing solutions that involve reducing our own freedoms. Instead, we need to take the attitude that our smallest liberty or smallest convenience is worth more than the lives of every member of Al Qaeda, every member of every other jihadist organization, every supporter of these organizations, and every sympathizer with these organizations. Instead of inconveniencing ourselves, we need to kill them and keep killing them until none are left or until the remaining few surrender. That's a hard position to take, but we have freedom today because the Americans who came before us took that attitude. If we want to pass freedom to future generations, we have to take the attitude that the smallest freedom is worth more than the lives of all of those who would do things that would threaten any freedom.
Bill
One is the trigger, the other is the detonator. Phone one is with explosive. Phone two calls phone one. BANG.
multi-purpose weapon... There is evil lurking amongst us...
You replace every occurance of "phone" with "gun" in that paragraph, and you got a classic liberal sound bite if ever one existed. Thing is, though, there isn't a Second Ammendment for cell phones, though, is there? I say track 'em.
Now THAT would be something to see!!!
Aren't economies of scale grand? It is just another one of those Walmart like stories - well sort of. The analogy is not air tight.
What do we need Homeland Security for when ordinary citizens are the ones doing the job?
I remember that. But in this case you don't know for sure which phones were bought by terrorists, so you just call all of them.
You'll probably catch them in production or in storage and then you'll know where the terrorist hive is. There is a chance you'll blow a bomb that is already placed. But the odds of finding the bomb before the terrorist blows it is probably small anyway.
Well, how about if you didn't want to simply set off one explosion but set off 20 or 30 of them at the same time for a really big show? I suppose it's possible if you know how, to set all the phones to the same number, but I'm no phone expert.
amen
I wonder if these two are part of the same cell as the other three. They are all in Michigan and that would make a 5 man cell.
Correct. Needed a repeat.
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