Terror Plot Didn’t Fail
Posted by LK on 5/02/10 • Categorized as Blog, Environment, Featured, Politics, The Press, survival
I’ve been up most of the night listening to information trickle in regarding the undetonated Times Square car bomb. That I spent last night 5 blocks from the car’s location probably added to what is already my predilection to monitor such things.
It seems to me that a spineless and dim witted terrorist (whether international or domestic) who, upon realizing there was smoke emanating from the back of the vehicle, which might have been followed shortly thereafter by a premature explosion, abandoned the SUV with the motor running and the flashers on. I don’t know what the terrorist 101 manual says, but I’m guessing that bringing attention to the vehicle containing the explosives isn’t recommended.
And yes, this was a successful act of terrorism. There may have been no explosion, or loss of life or property, but havoc was created, and another small infusion of paranoia and vigilance now occupies a part of the collective citizen brain that had previously been occupied with creative and productive, instead of protective, thinking.
So Mayor Bloomberg is wrong when he says everything’s back to normal, and New Yorkers should enjoy the city as they always have. Good thing he wasn’t at his island retreat when this happened. Wouldn’t have looked good. My guess is that the frequency of his getaways will diminish some over the next few months.
Meanwhile, with even the NY Times repeatedly pointing out that the Obama administration dropped the ball on the oil rig disaster in the Gulf, and Axelrod and company scrambling the public relations jets to obfuscate their tardy and thus potentially disastrous response, the folks down there are going through, in the words of Yogi Berra, “deja vu all over again”.
There have been better Sunday mornings.
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Easier said than done, but uplifting nonetheless:
http://www.mojvideo.com/video-bob-dylan-let-me-die-in-my-footsteps/20919031c8f4ea0c1dbd
Maybe you’re just a wuss. I’m not feeling protective or fearful. Some jackass fucked up his bomb attempt and from what I have read it was a pretty shitty attempt at that. Propane, fertilizer (not even the proper type) some fireworks and an alarm clock. Wow some real dangerous stuff there. Even had it gone right the worst that would have happened is a car would have burned up in Times Square.
Be sure to change your diaper before you leave the house.
maybe i am a wuss, and maybe you’re missing the detection of danger gene. it’s come in handy since the Neanderthal days. you’re right in that it was amateur night, but success isn’t the criteria that changes minds and moods, however subtly. i guess somebody’s gotta be gung ho, and somebody’s gotta sense change in the wind. somewhere in there is the truth. what’s a diaper?
What is Bloomberg supposed to say, “The sky is falling!!!”? I agree that although the bomb didn’t detonate and no one died, that people are more concerned that there was an ATTEMPT and could be additional attempts, but dont blame Bloomberg for trying to calm people down.
So well said: they accomplished their goals whether or not they actually caused any casualties.
You’re talking about actions. If the ACTIONS taken at the mosque violate the law, they should be punished. At this point, “conservatives” want the government to restrict speech. That’s wrong, and it will backfire.