Whenever I visit my family in Scotland I almost always fly to Glasgow Airport. Where before I jump a cab or a shuttle bus to take me to the railway station, I like to have a cigarette just outside the main entrance. Which is EXACTLY where these bumbling terrorist wannabes crashed their car.
Wow!! Isn't it a small world?
Thankfully nobody was hurt...except the guy who poured gas all over himself.....thank god I wasn't there having a cigarette or I might have thrown it at him...and shown him that smoking kills.
But seriously....it should serve to remind us all where the REAL terrorist threat comes from....not from abroad but from WITHIN. And even more importantly.... WHY?
The 911 bombers were mostly Saudis who hatched their plan in Hamburg...but struck from within the United States. The young Muslims who bombed London's transportation system were British. The young Muslims who are charged with terrorist offences in Canada are Canadian.
The accused in this latest plot were all working in Britain.
They all have that insider status in common....as well as something else. They were ALL moved to do what they did or are accused of, because they were angered into a crazy criminal state by the presence of Western armies in Muslim lands...like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and of course Iraq.
...associates of Bilal Abdulla, a doctor who is accused of riding a flaming Jeep into Glasgow’s international airport on Saturday, say he was a religious zealot and a lone wolf whose anger about political developments in Iraq may have driven him to an act of terrorism.
Armies THEY see as acting like conquerors instead of liberators...
Armies THEY believe are killing Muslims to impose Christian values...or are insulting their religion...
In a YouTube world it's REALLY easy to get really angry.
Who is right or who is wrong doesn't really matter. The cold hard facts are homegrown terrorists wannabes who live among us are the ONLY ones who can REALLY hurt us.
And having soldiers in Afghanistan isn't making Canada safer...it's actually ENDANGERING our safety. Making it MORE not less probable that we'll eventually be hit by a terrorist attack.
You can argue that it's worth it....or it isn't...... but NOBODY can deny that.
But then that's what George Bush and the insane Dick Cheney are probably counting on. Another terrorist attack on North America so they can scare people stupid just like they did after the last one.
And sometimes I think Stephen Harper feels the same way. Goes to bed every night praying to his bloodthirsty god that Canada will be hit just like the U.S. was. So that he can scare people into giving him a majority....and turn Canada into a police state.
For warmongering neocons like Bush, Cheney and Harper fear is EVERYTHING.
Not that the government and the media aren't already doing a good enough job of scaring Canadians.
A federal study says the explosion of a small dirty bomb near the CN Tower would spew radioactivity over four square kilometres, resulting in mass anxiety, a rush on medical facilities and an economic toll of up to $23.5 billion.
Mass anxiety? Geez. Thanks a lot. Just what we ...... and any wannabe terrorists out there....needed to know.
I live less than THREE kilometres from the CN Tower....
Wow!! Isn't it a small world?
Four Square kilometers, not the same as a four kilometer radius. I forgot the formula for working out the area of a circle, my math books are packed in the basement.
ReplyDeleteI checked the map and I happen to live almost exactly three km from the CN tower so I might be safe but knowing that is a moot point when your city is poisoned.
Every journalist knows that fear sells and throwing out hypothetical situations like that appeals to our morbid little imaginations. Growing up in Vancouver I lived with dire media warnings of the killer earthquake that could strike at any moment and send the city sliding into the ocean.
We have a morbid fascination with potential disaster and we play on it all time. Unfortunately, nowadays, so do our politicians.
Those dudes in those videos, assholes, they’re worse for us than the terrorists.
because they were angered into a crazy criminal state by the presence of Western armies in Muslim lands...like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and of course Iraq.
ReplyDeleteWhat a load! And there were how many troops in iraq or afghanistan before 9/11. Or can you just make up new reasons why radical islamic terrorists are murdering cowards.