The Achillies heal of all anti-terrorism efforts.

[Skull Pilot]

Much better in my opinion.

So given a choice between a country with a homicide rate of 4.8 per 100,000 and 1.1 per 100,000, you'd prefer to live in the country with the higher homicide rate.

Interesting.

I'd rather not be controlled to the extent that you people are.

I don't need some government nanny telling me what I can and can't do to protect my wife and my home.

Those that sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither.

 

[Flopper]

The recent even, once all the facts have come out, may become a glaring example of the difficulty faced by authorities in thier battle to counter politically motivated groups that resort to violence to achive thier goals (aka terrorists).

The equation simply shows that all these bastards have to do is get lucky once, and they can cause massive damage to even a well protected event. The authorities have to be on the ball constantly to make "getting lucky" by the attackers as difficult as possible.

All of the measures taken in an anti-terrorist program are not designed to stop such attacks on thier own. Thier purpose is to make an attack require more steps to be successful, and give the authorities more chances to get lucky, or for the attackers to get unlucky.

Events, locations, and people can be made attack resistant, they can never be made attack-proof.

Under Obama's watch America has been hit by three terror attacks now. 1st one was Major Hassan the muslim who waged jihad on a military base inside usa shouting allah akbar while mass murdering over dozen people. ( obama called it work place violence ) 2nd one was on American soil at the US EMBASSY which was over run by Islamic terrorists who dragged our ambassador Stevens into the street and raped him before murdering him while White House refused to even call it a terror attack initially and preferred to blame it on a youtube video which later it turned out had nothing to do with it. Yesterday, once again we are told by Obama to wait, we don't know what happened, we need to find out "why" someone would do this. No we don't. It is the same reason they did 9/11. It is religious terrorism. There is nothing political about it. This is religious terrorism folks and Islam is the religion. Stop tip toeing around the 800 lb elephant in the room for Gods sake. The sky will not fall if you tell the truth as it is - instead of burying it under alot of politically correct nonsense.

- Jeremiah

(My bold)

Wiki says average elephants weigh in @ 2.7 to 6 tons - see What is the average weight of an elephant

I thought your number looked much too low. Maybe you're thinking gorilla - the 800-pound gorilla in the room ...

Let's hope it's not Muslim terrorists. We need to finish up in Afghanistan before we jump into another war.

 

[numan]

The number of terrorist attacks in this century, 13 years is about equal to the number that occurred between 1970 and 2000, 30 years. That number is about equal to the number that occurred between between 1900 and 1970, 70 years. Notice the trend.

Expand please. Not sure what you're getting at.

I'm just saying that the number of terrorist attacks are increasing. During the first half of the 20th century they were very rare. In the second half of the 20th, they became much more common place. In the 21st century they are very common compared to the 20th century.

Your notions are a beautiful theory murdered by harsh facts.

History of Terrorism

Revolutionary nationalism continued to motivate political violence in the 20th century, much of it directed against the British Empire.
The Irish Republican Army campaigned against the British in the 1910s and inspired the Zionist groups Hagannah, Irgun and Lehi to fight the British throughout the 1930s in the Palestine mandate.
Like the IRA and the Zionist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood used bombings and assassinations to try to free Egypt from British control.

Political assassinations continued into the 20th century, its first victim Umberto I of Italy, killed in July 1900. Political violence became especially widespread in Imperial Russia, and several ministers were killed in the opening years of the century. The highest ranking was prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, killed in 1911 by a leftist radical.

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot and killed in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins.

...the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which from 1916 to 1923 carried out numerous attacks against symbols of British power. For example, it attacked over 300 police stations simultaneously just before Easter 1920, and, in November 1920, publicly killed a dozen police officers and burned down the Liverpool docks and warehouses, an action that came to be known as Bloody Sunday.

The women's suffrage movement in the UK also committed terrorist attacks prior to the First World War. There were 3 phases of WSPU militancy in 1905, 1908, 1913 -- this included Civil Disobedience, Destruction of Public Property and Arson/Bombings, most notably David Lloyd George's house burned down by WSPU.

In 1901, The American President William McKinley, even before King Umberto of Italy, was assassinated -- supposedly by an anarchist, Leon Czolgocz.

Moreover, the modern fact of state-sponsored terrorism was well-established in the early 20th century. It was rife in Czarist Russia -- and World War I might have been avoided if not for the Black Hand terrorist movement in Serbia, supported by rogue elements of the Serbian government, much like the American CIA. Its leader, Dimitrijevich, personally supplied the arms which the teenage dupes used to assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie.

Scant days before the first fighting of World War I, the powerful French Socialist leader, Jean Jaurès, was assassinated. He had worked desperately to prevent the final plunge into war, and his murder was suspiciously opportune for militaristic leaders in both France and Germany.

There was a lot more terrorism before World War I -- a lot more -- but those are the highlights.

Read Bernard Shaw's play, Man and Superman, to get some idea of how much anarchism was on the minds of the Middle and Upper Classes in the period before WWI.
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[numan]

Finland has universal healthcare - but then so does every other developed country.

It never ceases to amaze me the myths you guys are few about this part of the world, and how quick some people are to believe them.

Americans are always happy to share their ignorance with the benighted folk of other lands.
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