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2015-11-07 Home Front: WoT

Faisal Mohammad’s plans detailed in manifesto

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Posted by Steve White 2015-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 “There was nothing on his computer or in his dorm room or in the manifesto to suggest any ties to terrorism or terrorists groups,”

No pay stubs? No W-2s? OK, then. No connection. Just that Allah stuff.

And here I was just thinking that Pakistain was the most delusional country on Earth.

Posted by SteveS 2015-11-07 00:19|| 2015-11-07 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 If this were labelled terrorism, most people would understand that this guy was of a type already known, like the Tsernaevs.
To say he was merely a typical devout Moslem, seems to support the case that such people are dangerous.
Why is the police doing this?

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2015-11-07 01:40|| 2015-11-07 01:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Why is the police doing this?

Cowed by the DOJ.

Posted by Raj 2015-11-07 01:46|| 2015-11-07 01:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Why are the police/DoJ doing this? Because that's what bureaucrats do.

I'm currently rereading the entire Dune series by Frank Herbert. Read most of them for the first time when they were published back in the '70s but I had never read the last of his, Chapterhouse (as opposed to his son's).

Reading them straight through it is amazing how much of the Progressive Mindset is revealed. Lots of cliched philosophy, some banal commentary of a psychological nature etc. but there is also more than a smattering of real insight into the corruption of bureaucracy, the evil of the mundane and the lure of power. Power doesn't corrupt so much as it lures the corruptible.

Vile, violent, never happy people congregate at all levels seeking to cast the world in the concrete of their own rotten cores.

Posted by AlanC 2015-11-07 08:39|| 2015-11-07 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Alan, look, I am here to help, start reading Faulkner and or Nabakov, let the doon crap go.

Posted by Shipman 2015-11-07 14:09|| 2015-11-07 14:09|| Front Page Top

#6 I've read the Dune series several times. What really struck me was the similarities between Paul and Mohammad and the Fremen and the Jihadists.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-11-07 15:09|| 2015-11-07 15:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Ship, I've read Faulkner and Nabokov, but didn't care for either, as well as many others. Mostly for fiction I read mysteries of the Sayers, Stout, Elkins types or Patrick O'brien. In the mists of a misspent youth I also read Asimov. For non-fiction it's more likely to be physics type books, Planck's lectures at the moment.

Dune is interesting in that it combines so many types of tyranny together. Of course all the Mo stuff is obvious but there is much that contradicts it too, plus there are no really good guys.

Posted by AlanC 2015-11-07 15:25|| 2015-11-07 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 May I recommend ERB or Doc Smith?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-07 15:43|| 2015-11-07 15:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Nick Harkaway. "Gone-away World" if you are in to sci-fi. "Tigerman" for something more contemporary.

If you want physics, anything by or about Richard Feynman.

Posted by SteveS 2015-11-07 16:11|| 2015-11-07 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Waiting for the pop sound as the FBI pulls it head out of its ass....

Posted by regular joe 2015-11-07 17:59|| 2015-11-07 17:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Starting to feel the urge to jihad a mosque.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-07 18:59|| 2015-11-07 18:59|| Front Page Top

#12 SteveS, not really into much sci fi. As for Feynmann, been there done that, liked them all....QED still turns my brain to mush after the 4th reading, loved it anyway.

Posted by AlanC 2015-11-07 20:16|| 2015-11-07 20:16|| Front Page Top

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