He said “shut down” for a very simple reason.

Because “Good work, my people! We got that place of evil shut down!” praise makes you sound like an activist. But “Good work, my people! We attacked that place of evil!” outs hi-, I mean, makes him sound like a terrorist.

Because “Good work, my people! We got that place of evil shut down!” praise makes you sound like an activist. But “Good work, my people! We attacked that place of evil!” outs hi-, I mean, makes him sound like a terrorist.

Meh.
You say To-may-to, I say to-mah-to

"No casualties reported”

Is this good, bad or an attempt to cutesify the act, like calling terrorists “freedom fighters”?

Aren’t they called “causalties” in war, and “dead or injured people” in conventional disasters? I don’t remember hearing anyone referred to as a “casualty” during the Katrina mess. They were called “storm victims”.

You say To-may-to, I say to-mah-to

I’m just saying, that’s his thought process. He’s a master of spin, you think he wasn’t considering very carefully how to put the best possible light on the recruitment center being bombed?

I guarantee you he smirked and thought “Too bad we didn’t kill any of the pigs, but I can still use this.”

But as to the “no casualties reported” thing, that’s more of his spin. He’s trying to turn an act of terrorism into one of simple protest/defacement, like graffiti. “Of course there were no casualties! This was just a simple protest at the racist Nazi American army!”

I like how “Other Military Recruitment Stations May Be At Risk” gets second billing to his little PSA “Now is a good time to point out how the Bush Administration has ramped up its illegal monitoring of us with all those cameras!”

You should take some time to go read his “sources”.  Yes, that means you have to actually go to MM’s website.  A hot shower afterwards will help.

The first one is from CBS news.  About 80% is how some civil liberties watchdog says we’re being spied upon with these cameras.  The rest contains some facts about how we’re not.  To which the watchdog says “Uh huh!  Are too!”

The second one is from the website notbored.com.  It’s anonymous author(s) would like to point out surveillance cameras don’t deter crime.  You see, there were an awful lot of them pointed towards the WTC towers on 9/11/01, and did they stop the attacks?  No!  That is their no shit, one and only example of why video surveillance doesn’t work. 

Anonymous author(s) also state(s):

They do not deter or prevent crimes from taking place; at best, they simply view or record crimes as they are taking place.

And as we all know, recordings of people committing crimes are totally useless as evidence to put them behind bars, which would prevent them from committing future crimes.  At least until their early parole.

And as we all know, recordings of people committing crimes are totally useless as evidence to put them behind bars, which would prevent them from committing future crimes.

Here in Britain we have the highest number of surveillance cameras per head of population of any country in the world. All the usual suspects over here such as Liberty (our version of your ACLU) are always moaning about how they infringe people’s human rights, but I think the majority of sensible people here don’t really have a problem with them. If you’re not doing anything wrong, why should you mind being filmed in a public area?
Do they actually deter crime? Frankly, it’s hard to say. We have very high crime rates over here, despite all these cameras. However, it’s indisputable that they’ve provided crucial visual evidence in a large number of criminal trials.

If you’re not doing anything wrong, why should you mind being filmed in a public area?

Because I’d like to know that whatever I’m doing in public will be kept PRIVATE thank you very much!

I’m going to say this right now: Anyone who dares defend this audacious attack as an act of free speech deserves to get his sorry ass kicked. X(

I’m going to say this right now: Anyone who dares defend this audacious attack as an act of free speech deserves to get his sorry ass kicked. X(

I’m with you 100% on this.

A day or two after the attack there was a demonstration in front of the center. Those involved ranged from left-wing types who actually said things like “This attack was wrong. You can’t fight terrorism with terrorism” to right-wing types full of effusive praise for the recruiters. Their common position, and the purpose of the few dozen people at the rally, was to make it obvious that NYers of all stripes wiil NOT support this type of attack.

Kudos to all those who stood and were counted.

I tell ya, I loves this city. :-)

I see on Michael Moore’s website, that he encourages people to protest and even get arrested. I ask myself, Why does he not lead those protests himself? Where is Michael Moore’s arrest report.  Where is his mug shot?  People like Martin Sheen and Cindy Sheehan get arrested at protests.  Why doesn’t Michael Moore lead by example?

"I see on Michael Moore’s website, that he encourages people to protest and even get arrested. “

Link?

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Perhaps sch180 was referring to Participate in civil disobedience to protest war or ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, located under Michael’s “MUST READ” tab.  It took me all of ten seconds to locate them, though I’m sure there are more.

Granted, Moore didn’t write the former column, and merely compiled links under the latter, but both are under MUST READ.  I suppose we could debate whether Michael himself is encouraging protest and arrest by posting these under his MUST READ tab, but that would rather seem a waste of time, wouldn’t you agree?