Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Threat of IEDs growing at home
My SanAntonio.com ^ | July 29, 2012 | Stewar Powell

Posted on 07/30/2012 4:08:57 PM PDT by AuntB

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last
To: AuntB

People from terrorist nations...

Who would ever think IEDs could pop up here?


21 posted on 07/30/2012 4:58:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: AuntB

Imagine drone strikes against citizens being mislabeled as IED attacks. 0 regime gets to waste an effective opponent and then claim said opponent was a victim of terrorism and argue for greater control. Better yet, they can say the guy was in the act of planting a device that detonated prematurely and then use that propaganda to smear the surviving opposition and justify suppression. It’s totally tinfoil hat speculation stuff, but we do seem to live in strange times.


22 posted on 07/30/2012 5:02:42 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation

That’s one of the best posts ever and regrettably, it really points out why America is already finished. If we want to carry on our American idea it’s probably going to have to be elsewhere.


23 posted on 07/30/2012 5:03:06 PM PDT by amishman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: AuntB
Until I read this article, I had heard nothing in the print, web, or broadcast news about "IED's" being a domestic occurrance. None. Please correct me if I'm missing something here...

Sounds to me like the Libtards cooking up a new Boogy-man to excuse more Fascist Police-State bullsh*t.

IMHO.

;-\

24 posted on 07/30/2012 5:04:05 PM PDT by Gargantua ("Dedicated to the removal of the Islamic Regime in America")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibLieSlayer

I agree.


25 posted on 07/30/2012 5:06:32 PM PDT by ryan71
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: AuntB
In the United States, there were 24 terrorist attacks last year that killed 13 people and wounded 33, according to the report by NATO's Center of Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism.

then WHY were they NOT in the news??? every news story in America ALWAYS says NOT linked to it...

26 posted on 07/30/2012 5:07:57 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: amishman

I’m thinking somewhere in the Caribbean.

After Obamacare is in full force, the best younger doctors will leave and set up boutique medical clinics for wealthy Americans to come to.

I figure I can be a janitor.


27 posted on 07/30/2012 5:08:00 PM PDT by nascarnation
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: LibLieSlayer

Five years ago I would have agreed with you, and I still wish that was the case, but I just fear it wouldn’t happen that way now.


28 posted on 07/30/2012 5:10:29 PM PDT by amishman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: AuntB
Sometimes I stop and think about all of the Iraq and Afghanistan combat vets we have. Tens of thousands of them dealt with IED’s, etc. I think their skills might be extremely valuable, right here, fighting to either save this country or help raise it from the ruins.
29 posted on 07/30/2012 5:12:05 PM PDT by ryan71
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chode

I assume those terrorist attacks were by Tea Party members.

/s/s/


30 posted on 07/30/2012 5:14:08 PM PDT by nascarnation
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Chode

Here’s the report, unfortunately they don’t break out detail for individual events

http://www.coedat.nato.int/publications/report/Annual%202011.pdf


31 posted on 07/30/2012 5:17:12 PM PDT by nascarnation
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation
prolly cost a million dollars for it and it's useless... most likely by design
32 posted on 07/30/2012 5:27:26 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: AuntB

But if I find a muzzlem burying a bomb by my sidewalk and I report him, will they give me the Michele Bachmann izzlamophobe treatment?


33 posted on 07/30/2012 5:27:44 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibLieSlayer
Why do you think that fdr interned the Japanese citizens living in America during WWII? Because they would not have been safe in any other place in America.

Apparently they only wouldn't have been safe on the west coast, since those were the only Japanese Americans interned. For those in Hawaii and in the rest of the United States, there was no internment. Seriously, it's absurd to try to spin that as some sort of benevolent protective arrangement.

34 posted on 07/30/2012 5:29:32 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: AuntB

They only want to allow the army to help local law enforcement this time. Really, it’s just this one time. Honest injun...we won’t get involved local law enforcement again.

Who believes this crap?


35 posted on 07/30/2012 5:38:37 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I just hate our government. All of them. Republican and Democrat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: amishman

It will in some parts of the country. When I think of deep blue states... I think of refugees fleeing a war zone. We may both be right.

LLS


36 posted on 07/30/2012 5:50:44 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: AuntB

This is a red herring.

“But legal restrictions on the activities of U.S. armed forces are slowing crucial collaboration, insiders complain.”

“You don’t understand! Unless we completely eliminate the Bill of Rights, we will be overrun with drug cartel child pornography terrorists who will zombiefy children with bath salts in Mosques before slaughtering them with Stand Your Ground assault rifles!”

IEDs? Seriously?

Think about this logically. If *anyone* was using IEDs in the US, who would be the targets of these IEDs?

1) School buses full of crippled orphans, or,

2) Heavily armed paramilitary police attempting to raid the home of some political opponent to the police state, who posted to some blog that “Obama is a poopy pants”?

These are the same people that think having armed combat drones patrolling our skies looking for (?) is a GREAT idea.

I am a lot less concerned about IEDs than that there are such people in our government acting as enemies of the people, trying to scare us all into living in a fishbowl.


37 posted on 07/30/2012 6:02:27 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NewHampshireDuo

That is what this is all about.


38 posted on 07/30/2012 6:04:51 PM PDT by MCF
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: AuntB

The politicans are setting us up for a war zone. Open borders and importing jihadists from Islamland... “Homegrown terrorists” are classified by Homeland inSecurity as conservatives.


39 posted on 07/30/2012 6:08:13 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I did not mean it in absolute terms. Certainly security was in the forefront of their minds. I think that their safety was of major concern in the decision. That is what I have been taught but as with many of the things that I have been taught... it could be another distortion. My point is still valid.

LLS


40 posted on 07/30/2012 6:08:51 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson