Flight delayed by ISIS scare
Sep 21, 2014, 5:54 am
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Terrorism is meant to mess with the head, but it takes a messed-up person to get so paranoid about terrorists when the risk of being killed or injured by a nut job terrorist is borderline non-existent. An unarmed person being injured or killed by the police is far more likely to happen than being injured or killed by a terrorist. And yet the police signs don't freak out all the same people freaked out by ISIS logo.
So getting onto their radar with ISIS shows that they exhibit some sort of thinking process.
Sep 21, 2014, 7:05 am
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Hitler and the Nazis were evil. AND Nazi/Hitler memorializing in Germany is a crime.
Isis isn't necessarily a bad group, as evidenced above by the number of different groups/organizations/companies/etc. that are called Isis and have nothing to do with terror.
Sep 21, 2014, 9:16 am
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The Terrorism Group Formerly Known as ISIS?
Sep 21, 2014, 9:30 am
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They'd be mightily upset given that promoting Hitler and Nazism is a crime in Germany. But you aren't comparing apples with apples - for example would a company launch a Hitler range of lingerie? A company in the UK produced a range of ISIS lingerie but I hope you aren't suggesting they were promoting terrorism (then again you might be the person who panicked and allowed me to creat this OP...)
The Terrorism Group Formerly Known as ISIS?
Sep 21, 2014, 10:52 am
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What about those signs the street vendors have up all over NY in the summer
ITALIAN ISIS........or is it Italian ICES?? sounds the same to me
ITALIAN ISIS........or is it Italian ICES?? sounds the same to me
Sep 21, 2014, 1:31 pm
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Sep 21, 2014, 6:56 pm
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I really do own this tshirt. I have been "discouraged" from wearing it in public.
http://i.imgur.com/s58LA1g.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/s58LA1g.jpg
Sep 25, 2014, 2:00 pm
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Subway delays in NYC and Paris next? The Iraqi government which wants more US and French military attacks against ISIS in Iraq and Syria have conveniently come across "credible intelligence" that ISIS is planning NYC and Paris subway attacks.
Sep 25, 2014, 5:08 pm
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...because you know "non-state" actors would never carry out an attack on a subway. Oh wait
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_...ondon_bombings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_...ondon_bombings
Sep 25, 2014, 5:58 pm
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...because you know "non-state" actors would never carry out an attack on a subway. Oh wait
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_...ondon_bombings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_...ondon_bombings
Apparently I may have been too subtle in trying to make my point: parties play up "threats" for their own self-dealing purposes.
Sep 26, 2014, 7:15 am
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That is unless the 'terrorists' plan to embrace a surreptitious clean and plaint job overnight