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toldailytopic: What steps should government take to help prevent terror attacks such as the Boston Marathon bombing?






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There is only one answer and in America it could only be implemented state by state in a fell swoop...disarm the people and instate martial law...if America doesn't go that way it must INEVITABLY disintergrate back to the lawless west, it is pretty darn close to that in some places. There are no go areas.

You have to take it to the logical conclusion and consider what the scenario will be if the dollar collapses and money becomes worthless....it is what is going to happen. Man...I do tremble because America is our big brother.
 

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Lock some of themselves up for fraud an corruption. :) then people might feel twich safer.
 

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From what I gather the Saudis and the Russians warned us about those guys.
So maybe the intelligence agencies should start reading their e-mail.
That would be a good start.
 

gcthomas

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The problem with this sort of thing is the intensely political nature of it. The Boston bombing cost two victims their lives and closed a city, while the war on terror is costing the US $100 billion per year. Why spend so much? Is it a cost effective way to make the population safer?

To put it into context, the UK spends about the equivalent of $2.5 million per life lost due to accidents on prevention strategies, and a little less on road deaths (I expect the US does roughly the same). $100B per year for two mainland deaths in a decade works out at half a trillion dollars per death. Even including 9/11 in the figures the cost only comes down to about a billion per death.

It seems like the terrorists have won to some extent when two small devices can close a city. When the IRA were running around England planting their nail bombs, at most a street was closed. The police did their job, quietly, detecting the criminals where possible and hindering their activities otherwise.

Terrorism can only cause terror if the population is complicit in allowing terror to dominate their lives. The chance of being killed in an act of terror is so low that you can't pick out 9/11 even as a blip in the death rates from other causes in the US (New York's violent death rate was about the same in 2001 as 2000).

There is always the risk of death from violent acts on any day for any of us. If we live in terror and give up freedoms as a result, then we have already lost. What is it we are fighting for if it not to preserve our way of life?

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759​
 

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There is only one answer and in America it could only be implemented state by state in a fell swoop...disarm the people and instate martial law...if America doesn't go that way it must INEVITABLY disintergrate back to the lawless west, it is pretty darn close to that in some places. There are no go areas.

You have to take it to the logical conclusion and consider what the scenario will be if the dollar collapses and money becomes worthless....it is what is going to happen. Man...I do tremble because America is our big brother.

No, thats not what is needed, the real problem is there is to much big brother dictating as it is, and the other fact that most of the populace is dependent on big brother to just exist, so they grumble and complaine but they still can't shake that need for a parent be it goverment or religions, so few stand up and demand their independence back and when they do they are attacked by other slaves and cheer on the police state you stupidly wish for us..

The other factor is the brainwashing from cradle to grave which you seem to be one of the poster nations for such elitist mentality through history.

Anderson Cooper, Bill big mouth will tell you who did it, and the indoctrinated will go into their hate mongering possible reasons and remedies that never expose the real enemy hidden in plain sight.

Banks steal you saps blind, and the military kills your sons and daughters for corperate greed and other BS! and you still can't grasp who the real enemy is, so the american populace is the problem not some CIA taught terrorist, or FBI stooge.
 

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toldailytopic: What steps should government take to help prevent terror attacks such as the Boston Marathon bombing?



Deal extremely harshly with those who perpetrate these acts.

Deal even more harshly with those who try to excuse their behavior.
 

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The TheologyOnline.com TOPIC OF THE DAY for May 2nd, 2013 05:00 AM


toldailytopic: What steps should government take to help prevent terror attacks such as the Boston Marathon bombing?


1. Arm every adult citizen. Give them safety courses and courses on how to maintain and use small arms.

2. Tighten the boarders. Maintain the fence around the boarder and deport every illegal immigrant from our country. Deport immigrants with known terrorist connections.

3. Swiftly try and execute those that perpetrate terrorist acts.
 
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gcthomas

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1. Arm every adult citizen. Give them safety courses and courses on how to maintain and use small arms.



So the answer to terrorism causing two deaths in the last decade is to put another 100 million guns into civilian hands and lock down the country?

Terrorists 1, US citizens wanting to live in peace and freedom 0
 

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1. Arm every adult citizen. Give them safety courses and courses on how to maintain and use small arms.


How would this have prevented the Boston bombing?

2. Tighten the boarders. Maintain the fence around the boarder and deport every illegal immigrant from all countries. Deport immigrants with known terrorist connections.

The bombers got here legally. And they didn't exactly need to cross a fence to immigrate.

3. Swiftly try and execute those that perpetrate terrorist acts.

Swiftly, sure. Because we don't want to take our time finding out why they did it, or if they have associates out there. Yeah, let's just do this all real chop-chop.
 

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Deport all muslims and blow up mecca.

What a despicable thing to say. You are basically fine with generalizing a whole group based on the actions of a few, but you are not stopping there, you actually want to punish the entire group based on the actions a few. And when you are done with that, you want to blow up their sacred site for good measure.

That you use the word Angel in your name and call yourself a Christian is ridiculous in light of such statements. You are calling out for a grave injustice and a terrorist act against people who have nothing to do with any terrorist act.
 

gcthomas

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There is no context you can put it into.
It was a running gunfight.
They lost a cop in the middle of it.
What were they suposed to do?

Erm ... you took my 'context' comment out of context. The context I mentioned was national finances, not the police tactics. :think:

In any case, the city shutdown was imposed after the gunfight finished and they lost the suspect. Did that help with the hunt? Nope. Did that give two punk terrorists global, wall to wall, 24h media coverage that will encourage potential terrorists in their ability to terrorise? Certainly.

Whatever they were supposed to do, I cam be pretty certain that the police tactics will be reviewed, and we will never see the same actions again.
 
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The Bill Clinton approach. Ban all clothing; that way nobody has anything to hide or anyplace to hide it. And best of all, Islamic men are not allowed to look at naked women so they would have to leave the country to avoid doing so.

Might have to ban back-packs and the like too... Winters could be problematic... Home grown terrorists could still happen...

In short, the government cannot prevent all acts of terrorism. It is not possible. With great freedom comes great responsibility. The to prevent terrorism is for citizens to quit abdicating their freedom back to the government and start taking responsibility for it. It is our freedom to lose, not the governments to grant or take away.
 

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The Bill Clinton approach. Ban all clothing; that way nobody has anything to hide or anyplace to hide it. And best of all, Islamic men are not allowed to look at naked women so they would have to leave the country to avoid doing so.

Might have to ban back-packs and the like too... Winters could be problematic... Home grown terrorists could still happen...

In short, the government cannot prevent all acts of terrorism. It is not possible. With great freedom comes great responsibility. The to prevent terrorism is for citizens to quit abdicating their freedom back to the government and start taking responsibility for it. It is our freedom to lose, not the governments to grant or take away.

How in the world would this have prevented the Boston bombing? It's like Jon Stewart said the other night--there's no such thing as "freedom magic" we can just break out and use as needed.
 
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