It’s Time
Law enforcement should stop screwing around and bring in the one person who can explain the Tsarnaev investigation to the media – Emily Litella 👿
Marcy Wheeler digs up two hints of the farce this has become – 1) the megabuck facial recognition software couldn’t identify the Tsarnaev brothers despite their identity photographs in the immigration files and the Massachusetts DMV; and 2) the NYPD claims about a plan to target Times Square would appear to be based on a photograph Jokhar posted on his VKontact [Russian version of Facebook] page of his trip with friends to NYC, and comments heard by the car hijacking victim.
Most people aren’t aware that the FBI has thrown billions of dollars at various computer systems, and still has nothing that actually functions. That the photo recognition system is worthless is hardly surprising with their track record, and the general functionality of things purchased in response to the War on Terror™.
Then Charlie Pierce locates an interview with “Misha”. Mikhail “Misha” Allakhverdov, son of an Armenian mother and Ukrainian father, has already been in contact with the FBI about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom he knew when he lived in Boston three years ago. He moved back to Rhode Island to care for his parents and has not had any contact with Tsarnaev since his move.
Why can’t people accept that Tamerlan is a homicidal whacko, just like the guys to did all of the killing at Sandy Hook, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine, etc. His bombs weren’t as sophisticated as those of Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, or Ted Kaszynski, so why are so many people convinced that he had to be part of a conspiracy?
It is definitely time for “Never mind” …
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Never underestimate the willful stupidity of people whose meal ticket depend supon willful stupidity. If you’ve been banging the drum about Islamic terrorists for the past ten years, then if someone sneezes, why, it must be Islamic terrorists! If your city wants anti-terrorism money, why, you talk up the fact that these Islamic terrorists want to bomb YOUR city too!
You’d think people would catch on that all these people care about are keeping their meal tickets coming, yet there are still suckers out there who believe them. Unbelievable. Sheesh.
– Badtux the Credulous Penguin
The Boston Marathon bombings as well as Sandy Hook, Aurora, (how horrible to put the etc behind those two), etc. qualify as domestic terrorism. Simple as that. We have homespun Merikan terrorists right here in River City. So it’s not as simple as pointing to Islam and screaming (and then nuking some foreign country over there), but actually demands of us hard work and spending some money to understand, deflect, defuse, reroute those who feel that nothing will help their lives but massive death and destruction.
Shorter Elroon: Solving this problem will require we do deep examination of who we are as a nation, then roll up our sleeves and do what it takes to fix it.
Shorter American Public: I’ll do that right after finding out who wins the next round of my favorite reality TV contest show. Priorities, y’know?
– Badtux the Cynical Penguin
Dear Penguin, may you never become Conventional Penguin.
We have known what the problems are for a long time but fixing them requires time, money, consistency, and cooperation. As long as the people at the top are making a lot of money by not solving the problems, nothing will be done.
And as long as the vast majority of Americans are more concerned with whether there will be a next season of Honey Boo Boo than with solving the problems of America, the people at the top will have no incentive to solve the problems regardless of the amount of money that they make or don’t make.
The problem we are facing is that the current ruling class is attempting to distract everyone with ‘circuses’ without providing any ‘bread’, and they are charging for the ‘circuses’.