Comments on: What is an act of domestic terrorism and does it matter?

By: kdv775

kdv775 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:52:46 +0000

In my opinion – The act committed by this man is considered domestic terrorism in that it does not differ much from the Oklahoma City bombing. It was against the U.S. government and it involved mass destruction, violence and loss of life. It also included a large audience which are key ingredients for terrorism. It is domestic because it involved victims, targets, audience and the perpetrator were in this country…..
Lone wolf terrorists are much more difficult to detect, and the only course of action would be the defense measures….

By: Rand Beers commits candor – and it was refreshing

Rand Beers commits candor – and it was refreshing — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:41:08 +0000

[...] terrorism. But it is a discussion worth pursuing, and I hope others will take up the issue, much as Jessica Herrera-Flanigan did in her recent posting to HLS Watch. The ancillary issues, such as risk mitigation and insurance coverage, are ones that should command [...]

By: Tigara Electronica

Tigara Electronica — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:20:12 +0000

Terrorists are people with no fear of God ..or people paid a lot of money by people who have a lot of money and lots of interests .. as long as the world economy is in the hands of a few, I think terrorism will be just another economic tool..

By: Randy Palmer

Randy Palmer — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:15:06 +0000

Someone needs to explain the fact that terrorism will and never can be stopped. Just think of how much money we spend of defense, etc… and look what happenes.

By: Tiagara Electronica

Tiagara Electronica — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:56:41 +0000

We can't stop terrorism. These are hard times... Just my thoughts. tigara electronica

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By: Nick Catrantzos

Nick Catrantzos — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:06:02 +0000

Many of our definitions of terrorism trace to an instrumental objective. Penal code definitions of terrorist acts provide a means to get dangerous attackers off the street. National security-related definitions mobilize other resources. Sometimes, however, the rush to affix a label (or to avoid one too artfully) becomes a disservice. Too many practitioners appear to be seeing terrorism in every attack of late. Perhaps C.S. Lewis best phrased a cautionary note this way:

If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To see through everything is the same as not to see.

For more but less elegant discussion, see Terror Label Solves No Problem on http://all-secure.blogspot.com

By: William R. Cumming

William R. Cumming — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:19:37 +0000

In every large city in the world fake passport production for almost any country is taking place. Now here is a question? Who in the US government (meaning what organization) is responsible for tracing and preventing production of false US passports? The answer cannot be each Customs (ICE) agent, IMO! A bigger donut hole?

By: Christopher Bellavita

Christopher Bellavita — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:28:41 +0000

From Barbara Weibel, August 5th, 2009 [found at http://holeinthedonut.com/2009/04/24/key-west-florida-conch-republic/

....I did a little research in order to reply to your comment [about the 9/11 hijackers having Conch Republic passports]. This original source of this information was an October 3, 2001 Miami Herald article by Jennifer Babson. Peter Anderson, steward for the group that champions the Keys as the “Conch Republic” and that issues its own passports, said that anyone who is issued a passport must provide supporting materials, including proof of address, telephone number, email, a notarized copy of their genuine passport or other official documentation from country of residence, and three photographs. When the U.S. Postal Inspection Service reported to the FBI that the group had apparently issued a passport to someone by the name of Mohammed Atta, the FBI investigated. According to the article, the FBI “did find someone signing the registration book under the name Atta from New York, but cannot say if it was the suicide hijacker.” The story further states: “FBI agents hauled away boxes of records, but have been unable to find Atta’s passport application and his accompanying passport snapshots, a federal investigator said.” Anderson’s group issued a about 10,000 between 1993 and the date of the Miami Herald article. Your comment that “They have sold 10s of thousands of them in the mid east to terrorists” is a rumor that may have as its source the original Herald article, which referenced a Discovery Channel program that featured the Conch Republic. After the show began regularly replaying a segment that included information on the passport program, Anderson said, “we started receiving a lot of requests from people all over the world and from people who were in the U.S. who we had reason to believe may not have been in the U.S. legally.” Anderson says the Conch Republic received a sudden flood of mail order applicants, many of them with Arab surnames and from countries such as India, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates, in the fall of 2000. The story does not say that any of these passports were ever issued.

By: Craig Quirolo

Craig Quirolo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:48:55 +0000

Not a comment a question; Would it be considered an act of domestic terrorism to sell real looking fake passports to the Conch Republic knowing that tens of thousands of them have been sold to people in the mid east, that they have been successfully used to enter foreign countries and that two of the 9/11 hijackers had them? I am baffled that they continue to be sold in Key West given the fact that they look so real and are used to enter and exit countries abroad as well as here in the USA.