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02-02-2007, 01:37 PM #21
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Here is a link to some images of the "devices."
http://www.nbc11.com/slideshow/news/109 ... ;s=1;w=400
Again, people need to get a grip. Folks, if the terrorists have us so worked into an irrational frenzy that something like this is landing people in jail on serious charges, then they have already won. A terrorist doesn't need to actually destroy anything in order to accomplish his mission. Turning us against each other by creating paranoia and setting the stage for this country to turn into a police state (see: The Patriot Act) is, to my mind, more devastating by far than any bomb blast.
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02-02-2007, 02:03 PM #22Originally Posted by CrocketsGhost
I would also like to point out that it becomes more obvious what the object is when it is dark outside and lit up with pretty lights. During the daytime when it is not lit up, the image is not obvious, especially at a distance. If I recall, there were wires with batteries attached too. And again, Crocket, is it normal to dangle an electronic device off of a bridge? Better safe than sorry, but we could do without the media hype.
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02-02-2007, 02:13 PM #23
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Originally Posted by Neese
I will repeat, this is very dangerous ground. This sort of idiocy is how police states are born. Heck, half of the harmless and lighthearted pranks we pulled at kids would result in a kid today being locked away or subjected to mandatory medication. It's absurd. The State is so afraid of having people who can think for themselves or who it (the State) cannot easily characterize and predict that it is cramming us all into a tight little homogenizing box. Worse yet, it is intentionally inflicting is paranoiac pathology on as many of the citizens as it can to the point that we're all turning into "pod people," like the drones pointing and issuing an inhuman moan in the direction of the unassimilated in Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Be glad that we can still combine our efforts on sites such as this one, because at this rate our current activities will be outlawed as racist and anti-State within a decade or so.
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02-02-2007, 03:25 PM #24Heck, half of the harmless and lighthearted pranks we pulled at kids would result in a kid today being locked away or subjected to mandatory medication. It's absurd.
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02-02-2007, 03:47 PM #25Originally Posted by Neese
PS. We went corning and cow-tipping. That was the extent of pranks for me... maybe I will think of more later.Deportacion? Si Se Puede!
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02-02-2007, 05:38 PM #26
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Originally Posted by Neese
Look, I am opposed to anything that would cause someone harm, but this particular case is just a case of hysteria and little else.
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02-02-2007, 05:55 PM #27
Funny Crocket, I am not even going to ask how you steal a cannon, but I am sure that you did it with finesse.
Annie, what is corning? Does cow tipping really work?
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02-02-2007, 06:50 PM #28
I never saw the one that resembled the pipe bomb but the ones I saw did not look threatening to me. It sounds like the mayor went nuts over it and ended up making himself and the police look silly. The mayor has say over the police chief and the department so they must have been following the mayors orders.
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02-02-2007, 08:21 PM #29
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Originally Posted by swatchick
I think that the most ironic thing is that CNN played a major role in generating a media panic. CNN is part of Turner Broadcasting, meaning that these guys were going off the deep end over a stunt pulled by their OWN COMPANY.
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02-02-2007, 10:05 PM #30
I think it was one great big publicity stunt. CrocketsGhost; you are pretty close on that one. If it is like most police departments they have a media relations department and you as an officer you can't say much but refer them to media relations. The media do listen to scanners and once they get something they notify media relations. Media relations gets information from the officers on the scene and at that point decide what information the media gets. Unless the mayor decides to speak to the media. I think they just made fools of themselves.
I know the county's policy here is that if any suspicious package is found and the police officer also deems it suspicious then the bomb sqaud is called in and the item gets xrayed. The media is only told that there is a suspicious item and nothing else until the item is xrayed and a decision is made if they are going to blow it up or if it is harmless. There is no real hype about it unless it is at the airport or Port of Miami.Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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