Originally Posted by
bionicarm
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What rock have you been hiding under? I like how the right wingers are taking Bloomberg's remark out of context. Like he said, at the time they had no idea who it was, or what their motive was. As volatile as the Obama Healthcare issue is these days, it wouldn't surprise me some nutjob would do something like that for the cause. They also theorized that it was a Muslim attack because of the stupid episode of South Park that depicted the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. Comedy Central's parent company is Viacom, and their corporate offices were on that street corner.
Tracking down and catching this guy within 48 hours was a pretty impressive feat. Granted the moron left enough clues that Barney Miller could have found him, but they got him before he could get out of the country. The only reason he was able to get on the plane was because the airport and airlines didn't update their 'No Fly' lists for 24 hours after they received an update. Homeland Security has now modified that so they have to update their lists within 2 hours of being notified of a change. What's funny was when they got on the plane to get him, his response was something like "I was expecting you, or What took you so long?"
Terrorist experts have said that it's almost impossible to stop attacks like this one. Virtually anyone who is ticked off at the world or upset about some cause could've pulled this same plot. They're saying now that this guy was under duress because of financial problems. His house got foreclosed on, and when the pressure got to him, he went back home to Pakistan and started to become more relgious. Apparently some radical Islamic group got hold of him, and convinced him to do this terrorist plot with the SUV. He's saying now one reason he went along with it was because this Pakistani group was holding his family, and if he didn't go through with it, they'd kill them. Whatever the reason, I just hope some copycat idiot doesn't try the same thing in some other town.
When you have stuff like the beware of veteran terrorists, then Billy coming out and saying Tea Party people are terrorists, Obama saying the same thing, then Bloomberg making an ars of himself...
Then it turns out a registered Democrat, and Bush hater planted to what amounted to a smoke bomb... You do have to admit it sure is ironic and funny....
