(11-16-2015 10:52 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(11-15-2015 09:03 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  A local Law Enforcement Officer I know says he expects a similar type attack in the US "sometime in the near future." Problem is most local Police Officers are outgunned. Only Tactical Units have 5.56 or 7.62 rifles that could take on Terrorists armed with AK-47s

I won't go near a mall or big box on Black Friday.

Yep, but a potential terrorist attack isn't my reason for not going.

Seriously, I'll take my chances with the terrorists as opposed to the degenerates who rear their heads on Black Friday. Really brings out the worst in people.....materialism is a plague.

(11-15-2015 09:03 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  A local Law Enforcement Officer I know says he expects a similar type attack in the US "sometime in the near future." Problem is most local Police Officers are outgunned. Only Tactical Units have 5.56 or 7.62 rifles that could take on Terrorists armed with AK-47s

I'm your Huckleberry!! Don't want to
Hope I won't have to. However, I have equal means to defend mine.

Good luck Sheeple!

(11-16-2015 10:49 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(11-16-2015 10:26 AM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  

(11-16-2015 09:30 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  A Crusade would work. And it wouldn't be nearly as difficult as the first time. We could win in about a week.

I read your post and then imagined a dramatic scene with orchestral music as Richard the Lionhearted says: "Round up the knights."

Ha!

Except we'd have to find someone to play Richard......there isn't really a world leader who has such fire right now....nor the fortitude to actually do what it takes to win the fight.

Finding a Richard doesn't worry me, it is hindering the Philip Augustus that inevitably arises to backstab the Richard.

(11-16-2015 10:52 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(11-15-2015 09:03 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  A local Law Enforcement Officer I know says he expects a similar type attack in the US "sometime in the near future." Problem is most local Police Officers are outgunned. Only Tactical Units have 5.56 or 7.62 rifles that could take on Terrorists armed with AK-47s

I won't go near a mall or big box on Black Friday.

ISIS Video released today says attack in Washington DC coming soon. I have no doubt there are Immigrant Sleeper Cells as well as Homegrown Radicalized Jihadis here just waiting to become operational.

Charlie Hebdo cover:

They have arms. Screw them! We have champagne.

Just ran across this and found it interesting. Comparing reaction to the Paris and Beirut bombings.

The global empathy gap between Paris and Beirut

Eurocentricity isn't a new concept, whether it be in terms of education, media, or otherwise.

Things like the Paris attacks happen in Africa just about every single day and no one cares.

And the perpetrators are almost exclusively Muslims.

Unfortunately human life is relative on a number of factors, at least to the masses.

Bombings are the norm in the middle east. It just isn't 'news'

(11-19-2015 01:34 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  Bombings are the norm in the middle east. It just isn't 'news'

Could be, just found it interesting. Heck, I hadn't even heard of the Beirut attack.

What the hell?

(11-19-2015 01:29 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Eurocentricity isn't a new concept, whether it be in terms of education, media, or otherwise.

Things like the Paris attacks happen in Africa just about every single day and no one cares.

And the perpetrators are almost exclusively Muslims.

Unfortunately human life is relative on a number of factors, at least to the masses.

that falls into the "XACLY!" category.....

both are due to 'muh media'

(11-19-2015 01:37 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(11-19-2015 01:29 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Eurocentricity isn't a new concept, whether it be in terms of education, media, or otherwise.

Things like the Paris attacks happen in Africa just about every single day and no one cares.

And the perpetrators are almost exclusively Muslims.

Unfortunately human life is relative on a number of factors, at least to the masses.

that falls into the "XACLY!" category.....

both are due to 'muh media'

Yup. I mean, not only was it in Europe (media boner)....it was arguably the most historic city in Europe save Rome. And France is such a unitary state that it consists simply of Paris and Not Paris. Not by accident was Paris chosen of course, though. What better place to pick to destroy culture, the arts, historical stuff, etc.

(11-19-2015 01:23 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Just ran across this and found it interesting. Comparing reaction to the Paris and Beirut bombings.

The global empathy gap between Paris and Beirut

Maybe because Beirut/Lebanon and other muslim countries ....terrorism is not as newsworthy because it is more common. BTW is the USA, European countries and anyone helping to bomb Boko Haram? With good intel I think those guys could be given some big losses.

I wonder what the reaction would be if a Balkan or Eastern European city was attacked.

Paris got the coverage because it is a major city. It was a gutshot to the entire Western World.