Times Square in lockdown after car bomb threat

[fightingquaker13]

Rush was opining today, this has to be linked to the white guy on the video, ergo,.....some Right-Wing Tea Party extremist.....

Even though the Pakistani Taliban, took credit, .....as was posted, I too, am surprised we haven't been hit again.

Remember the media,and the sources this info comes from.

TW it very well could have been a Tea Party yahoo, or Al Queda, or PETA, or the KKK, or the "God Hates Fags" folks, or an illegal alien group or............ One of the perks of being the big kid on the block is that everyone hates us. Any terrorist, of whatever stripe, with a grudge and an ounce ambition is NY bound. We will know who these guys are after the investigation. At this point, who cares? They are just homicidal ssholes. Just like the ones before and the ones who will come after. Politics are almost irelevant. Its like driving a Lexus in the ghetto, someone will try to jack you. Just be prepared.
FQ13

[billt]

Tonight they said the fertilizer they found in the vehicle wasn't the type that could explode. Either these guys were trying to make a statement, or else they were that dumb.  Bill T.

[TAB]

Tonight they said the fertilizer they found in the vehicle wasn't the type that could explode. Either these guys were trying to make a statement, or else they were that dumb.  Bill T.

I'm going to go with dumb, any one can google it and get step by step instructions.

[tombogan03884]

TW it very well could have been a Tea Party yahoo, or Al Queda, or PETA, or the KKK, or the "God Hates Fags" folks, or an illegal alien group or............ One of the perks of being the big kid on the block is that everyone hates us. Any terrorist, of whatever stripe, with a grudge and an ounce ambition is NY bound. We will know who these guys are after the investigation. At this point, who cares? They are just homicidal ssholes. Just like the ones before and the ones who will come after. Politics are almost irelevant. Its like driving a Lexus in the ghetto, someone will try to jack you. Just be prepared.
FQ13

Could be, but  NY picked up a Pakistani for it             

[billt]

Could be, but  NY picked up a Pakistani for it.

Oh yes, one of our "allies" in the "War On Terror". I think it's time this country takes a couple of steps back and really takes a long hard look at that convoluted mess we're in over there. I mean really, the Afghanistan "President" Karzai is so off the rails he has said he is thinking of possibly joining up with the Taliban, and is reported to be an Opium addict. We are all but certain Bin Laden is hiding somewhere in that stink hole of a country, most likely up in the tribal northwest region. They, (the Pakistan military) couldn't, or wouldn't produce him on a bet.

In Iraq it appears that entire country isn't as "won" as we thought. They are still killing and car bombing on an almost daily basis. These people will never enjoy the freedom and good will democracy brings to government simply because their "religion" won't permit it. It appears as though they will never get over that "hump" anymore than we will with our silly, overpriced concept of "nation building".

The bottom line is the Muslim world hates us, and always have and always will. The only reason some Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. tolerate us is because they want the technology and military hardware we can provide them. It's a hell of a lot easier to buy this stuff than it is to invent your own. Especially when you have literally trillions pouring up out of the ground that is there for the taking.

My thinking is beginning to change as to the reasons we are even over there. This is not a "war" we can ever win enough to the point we can come home. These people have been fighting and killing one another for well over a thousand years. We will never change that. As far as the, "fighting them there rather than here" philosophy, I think our money would be far better spent beefing up our security here rather than keep spending the equivalent of the $720,000,000.00 (720 MILLION) per day it is costing us over there to keep the Opium poppy's growing, and giving them enough unexploded ordnance to manufacture their car bombs with. We are so expensively and politically mired into this mess I see no way any good can possibly come of it. We will soon be coming up on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and what, if anything has changed? Hell, they haven't even replaced the buildings because we can't afford it, yet we seem to have the money to rebuild the countrys where the bulk of the populous hates our guts, and our enemies came from to begin with. Something is wrong here.    Bill T.

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[crusader rabbit]

 

I mean really, the Pakistan Afganistan "President" Karzai is so off the rails he has said he is thinking of possibly joining up with the Taliban, and is reported to be an Opium addict.

  There, Bill.  I fixed it for you.  But the rest of your statement makes a heckuva lot of sense.

Karzai probably made that idiot statement to elicit some action (read:  monetary contribution) on the part of the US, rather than as a statement as to what he would really do.  He feels as if he is not being respected, and wanted to give us a wake-up call.  And please, don't think I am defending his actions.  His brother is one of the biggest opium producers in the country.  I could blow him up this afternoon, and I would still be able to take a restful nap.

As to the rest of this thread, the FBI caught the mad bomber on a plane headed for Dubai. The plane was minutes from take-off.  And yes, the guy was of Pakistani descent and had recently spent 5 or 6 months in Pakistan, probably with the Taliban or al Qaeda learning how to make car bombs.  The lessons apparently didn't take.

And yes, it is only a matter of time before they succeed.  And FQ, the Tea Partiers have been holding demonstrations for the past year-plus without violence.  So no, it's not all the same by a different label.

[billt]

  There, Bill.  I fixed it for you.

Thanks. Brain fart from not enough coffee.        Bill T.

[Ichiban]

That nitwit Bloomberg ran with the Tea Party line right out of the gate.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/05/03/cbs-features-ny-mayor-bloomberg-speculating-bomber-was-mad-about-obamac

With Katie Couric drawing him out, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg agreed the Times Square car bombing was likely “homegrown” as he proceeded, in an interview excerpt run on Monday's CBS Evening News, to speculate it could have been placed by “somebody with a political agenda who doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”

Could be “anything,” but the first thing Bloomberg thinks of are those who don't like ObamaCare, presumably conservatives or Tea Party activists. 


When (not if) the Tea Party gets smears by some violence done in its name I suspect it will turn out to be someone specifically trying to make the party look bad.  Too bad that second part will never see the light of day in the lame-stream media.

[billt]

Between the fanatical Islamic  Muslim terrorists, and the mexicans pouring over our southern borders, coupled with Hussein's wild borrowing and spending, the Tea Party is the very least of this nations concerns. They are badmouthing the very cure for their own disease.   Bill T.

[Pathfinder]

Between the fanatical Islamic  Muslim terrorists, and the mexicans pouring over our southern borders, coupled with Hussein's wild borrowing and spending, the Tea Party is the very least of this nations concerns. They are badmouthing the very cure for their own disease.   Bill T.

No, Bill, they didn't badmouth rope . . . . .