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Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
They must be laughing their hind ends off that people are actually afraid of a kid's toy robot.
"World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division
between military and civilian participation." -Marshall McLuhan
Originally posted by defcon5
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
They must be laughing their hind ends off that people are actually afraid of a kid's toy robot.
I believe that a normal child lacks the ability to mix cement, carry it somewhere, and cement an object to a piling, making this more then simply a child’s toy carelessly left behind. The police treated it as though it was a shaped charge concealed in that plastic toy because of the fact that it was affixed there by cement. They acted appropriately under those circumstances, as explosives can be concealed in just about anything big enough to hold them.
Originally posted by acrux
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Please tell me your just pulling our leg.
This just shows how ludicrous the BS war on terror is.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Except that we don't know if it was in fact cement. Now concrete can be purchased from Home Depot ready made, and guess what, once set, the base of the Robot would come right out of it, so no where the authorities betrayed themselves was using the word cement, you cant cement plastic unless it's encased, and this clearly wasn't encased.
They had to pass the briefcase through some x-ray machine and forcibly remove the entire passenger side door. Oh I forget to mention that this is within 200 feet of a high school and a middle school. I checked the news first thing and one website listed it as a drill while two others said it was a person with a gun/suspicious package. To me it seemed like an indoctrination into the world of fear TPTB portrays.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Originally posted by zero1020
I live in Albuquerque and just today we had a "bomb" scare at the local IRS. Turns out someone left a briefcase in their car and someone reported it. It took 8 squad cars, 5 ambulances, 2 firetrucks and 2 bomb squad units to figure out that it was just papers and files. They blocked off traffic for a major avenue and 2 back streets. I bet the whole incident cost the city 5 million in resources.
This new wave of fear is ridiculous.
Can you imagine the poor person who left the briefcase in the car, to come back and find his car tore up, his briefcase ransacked, and probably treated like some kind of criminal?
Things are just not right!
Thanks for sharing that!
Originally posted by InnerTruths
I was gonna superglue a transformer toy on my friends car (he has the stupidest looking "wing" on the back. It should really come off, lol).
I'm gonna tell him to pick me up from the mall downtown. I will bring us to the food court to enjoy some lunch. It just so happens that across the street there are gov't buildings. I hope they won't blow up my friend's car.
Originally posted by romanmel
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Great post ProTrav
Obviously the whole problem here with this robot could have been resolved if the TSA had just been called in and an enhansed pat down of the entity including that suspicious hump in the crotch area. TSA Agents are the barrier between us and those evil Al-cia-dah, ya know?
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Originally posted by romanmel
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Great post ProTrav
Obviously the whole problem here with this robot could have been resolved if the TSA had just been called in and an enhansed pat down of the entity including that suspicious hump in the crotch area. TSA Agents are the barrier between us and those evil Al-cia-dah, ya know?
I don't think they like it as much when the victim doesn't squirm and grimace.
Robots are just no fun, especially ones smaller than a claymore mine!
Customary international humanitarian law: rules, Volume 1
43. Germany’s IHL Manual states that:
International humanitarian law prohibits the use of a number of means of warfare which are of a nature to violate the principle of humanity and to cause unnecessary suffering, e.g…. explosive traps, when used in the form of an apparently harmless portable object, e.g. disguised as children’s toys. 43
Afghanistan under the Soviets: five years - includes other related articles – transcript
For some time, Soviet planes were dropping antipersonnel mines disguised as toys, watches, and other objects that Afghan children or refugees would pick up. These mines were designed to maim rather than kill.
Originally posted by DOADOA
you have to understand, people working for TSA and HLS need to feel special. in order to do that there have to be situations where our eyes are on them so that they can feel bad ass. however, should a scenario arise where they are truly needed and there is a slim possibility of bodily harm, they coward and hide and wait for the situation to be over. then they start pointing the finger. same goes for our military.