Personal hygiene?
Nothing spreads terror like a bad odor.
Posted on 08/09/2007 6:06:34 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
New York Times Blogger Solicits Terrorism-Attack Ideas
Thursday , August 09, 2007
If you were a terrorist, how would you attack?
That's the question posed by a blogger from the New York Times on Wednesday. Steven D. Levitt is soliciting terrorism worst-case scenarios in a posting on the paper's Freakonomics blog.
"Consider that posting them could be a form of public service: I presume that a lot more folks who oppose and fight terror read this blog than actual terrorists," he writes. "So by getting these ideas out in the open, it gives terror fighters a chance to consider and plan for these scenarios before they occur."
Click here to read the blog posting.
Thus far the provocative posting has received 594 comments, with many questioning the rationale behind it.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
It would make sense if the “plots” and ideas were emailed in, and not made public to the general public, only to authorities....
I’d attack a national symbol of media dominance - like the New York Times.
Imagine a newspaper in WW2: Send in your best ways to torture people. We need to know what we are up against.
Utterly preposterous.
Well golly gee, I know a great warehouse down the street where they could stash some anthrax and here’s the address! This guy needs to rethink.
If I was a terrorist, I would attack by throwing myself off the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. If enough of my terrorist bretheren did this, our dead bodies would block the shipping channel and New York Harbor could be brought to a screeching halt!
Ohmygosh! I hope I didn’t give them any ideas!
Those who participate should be given honorary status in
Al Qaeda.
Dumb.
“I’d attack a national symbol of media dominance - like the New York Times.”
Wow, that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking!
Personal hygiene?
Nothing spreads terror like a bad odor.
I’d attack a national symbol of media dominance - like the The National Enquirer.....
Only liberals could find logic in this.
If you were a terrorist, how would you attack?
If any of the suggested scenarios ever occur, I’d arrest the freak as a co-conspirator. I really don’t want to hand over the country to his generation.
Brainstorming........
Speaking of terror and torture... having to wade through those two sentences did it for me. Case closed :-)
If I were a terrorist I would probably drive an SUV into an airport terminal with a bomb that wouldn't explode, and then pour gasoline over myself and set myself on fire. Then after a few painful weeks in a burn unit, I would die.
Fortunately, I am not a terrorist.
Also fortunately, most Mohammedan terrorists paid about as much attention in their science classes as the average NY Times reader. That is to say, none at all.
If I were rich, I would sue this idiot for putting my life at risk. Attempted murder.
The terrorist don’t need this blog, but it sure is likely to give some sick nutjob ideas.
LOL!!!
On the Stupidity Scale, the New York Times’ Suggest-An-Attack project ranks right up there with the remarks Tommy Thompson made when he announced his resignation as secretary of HHS in December of ‘04: “I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do. And we are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that.”
Even if our food supply is vulnerable to attack, why publicly announce that fact to the enemy? Foolishly indiscreet comments such as that make the thought of a President Tommy Thompson cringe-inducing.
Before long, we could then get away with, say, destroying large buildings and killing thousands, and the very newspaper of that city would apologize for us and give us aide and comfort.
We could then use its reporter apparatus to gather information about anti-terrorist programs and neutralize them. We could even use it to brainstorm for new attack ideas.
It makes sense if the New York Times is actively attempting to aid terrorists.
I believe we already know which of the two intents is most obvious, as has been discussed by us on this forum in the past with respect to the New York Times.
Given the corruption and anti-Americanism rampant in the media, infiltration is unnecessary.
They’re liberals...any enemy to America is their ally.
I used to think that the Islamic nutjobs were so repulsive, that the Left would find it impossible to embrace them, even though embracing any enemy of the United States is almost an imperative to them.
Now I realize it was just a matter of time.
Hmmmm.
I’ve engaged in a bit of ‘what if’ in various forums myself, so I don’t see this as a ‘bad thing’.
At least somebody at the NYT is actually ‘thinking’ about it, rather than claiming terrorism is just a bumper sticker.
Besides, the NYT is only doing what it does best: that is, providing aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States in time of war.
"Consider that posting them could be a form of public service: I presume that a lot more folks who oppose and fight terror read this blog than actual terrorists," he writes. "So by getting these ideas out in the open, it gives terror fighters a chance to consider and plan for these scenarios before they occur."
His arguments and those of many of the commenters at that blog are preposterous.
If Mr. Leavitt really thinks that airing ideas for terrorists helps keep us safe, why doesn't he start a thread on the easiest way to track down and kill himself so that he can ensure he is on top of his personal safety? He can solicit ideas from hundreds of people from around the country on the best way to track down Mr. Leavitt -- where he lives, works, and plays. Readers could also propose ideas on how to kill him to ensure death. All this is, of course, solely for the benefit of Mr. Leavitt so that he can improve his personal safety. Using his logic, it wouldn't give stalkers, psychos, or freaks out there any ideas.
I should have his last name as “Levitt.”
It’s nothing to sniff about.
1. Renounce mindless violence
2. Reform your religion into something that can peacefully exist in the 21st century and give people hope and meaning in their lives.
3. Let go of your misplaced hatred for your neighbors the Israelis. They are pretty bright people and if you were friends all the energy and resources they have to use to defend themselves from you might be used to help you all develop your region.
4. Adopt a fair rule of law and follow it. Also stop lopping people’s body parts off and stuff like that so the rest of the World won’t see you as savages.
5. Depose your corrupt and/or fundamentalist leaders and establish free democracies. You would be surprised of the benefits you will reap.
6. Use the oil money you are lucky enough to have in your region to build your own infrastructure and develop other industries.
7. Lighten up.
How many The Pentagon’s Poindexter’s plan for the Terror Futures Market, and the NEW YORK TIMES CALL TO END IT?
uh.... I'd wait for a long weekend then I'd see where the NYT reporters are and set off charges in their empty cars. When their cars blow up they'd all rush to work and try to get stories out about the threat to the "Freedom of the Press".
then as they all gathered at the crack of 10:30 I'd set off the fire alarms and sprinkler system. Each of the trash cans at the entrances will be filled with liquid bubble soap and as our team ran out the building we'd knock them over and see all the employees slip and slide on the floor covered in bubbles.
That should be traumatic enough to stop the presses for several weeks. .....
now if I was a muzzie I'm sure there would be other uses for say....powdered soap, gas, garage door openers, fishing line, or just a number of household items..... but that's only if I was in the Religion of Pieces.
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