Glory Days;1767420 wrote:Well this response makes sense since I bet you get your idea of what police work is by watching Law and Order. I am sure if you saw these people walking into your neighbor's house:
you would dismiss it as just friends getting together.
Please tell me you were really drunk when you posted it or at least going for Sleeper's usual "hilarious exaggeration to make point" gimmick, because if not, you might have hit a whole new level of stupidity where you apparently learned everything about police work from an Arnie film. I think about anyone here would agree if you saw masked, armed people going in and out of a house, that is suspicious and worthy of reporting to someone in authority. I'd also consider the concept of guys dressed like that running around a neighborhood while in the planning stages utterly laughable. I'd say the main argument on this thread comes down to these points:
1. The common sense theorem that people with actual, working brains who are planning this sort of violent assault aren't going to try to attract any sort of suspicion before the fact and, therefore, will keep any activities on the down-low and likely have a plausible-sounding alibi in case any neighbors would have suspicions. "Oh, we have some family/friends from the east coast vacationing out west, so they're spending a few evenings/nights hanging out with us." or something like that. Only so many virgins to go around; no one is getting their supply if they get busted before leaving their house due to the neighbor seeing their big "BBQ: ISIS MEMBERS ONLY, BYOB" banner flying in their yard.
2. A vaguely-phrased statement from an article that the right wing politard crowd here is twisting to fit their personal agenda. Where a guy is quoted as saying he noticed strange people in the area, but dismissed it since he didn't want to racially profile them. To me, that read: "Some Middle Easternish neighbors are having Middle Eastern strangers over. In this day and age, that's the sort of thing that's hard to ignore, but they don't seem to be doing anything out of the ordinary, so there's no reason I should harass them just based on nationality". Some on this site took it another way, making the leaps of faith necessary to deduce he saw definitely suspicious activity and was afraid to say anything because the PC Police would humiliate him. While it's cute watching people jacking off over tragedy because their little politard brain sees a way to use it to strike a blow against progressives (THE TRUEEEEEE EEEEEEVVVVVIIIIIILLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!) and all, no one still has posted a legit link verifying that their "read between the lines" rendition has any legitimacy.
That is the big problem with these things -- they're good at keeping things on the down-low until it's time. The Syed dude in this event, from looking him up on Google Images, appeared like a regular, normal guy. Go back a ways and the guy that survived the Boston Marathon bombing looked like a normal college student. Both seemed to have normal friends/acquaintances who were shocked to hear they'd been involved in terrorism activities. Now, on the flip side, go to the white terrorist who shot up the Planned Parenthood in Colorado. That guy looks completely deranged from his mug shot, but no one stopped/profiled him before he started shooting.
If people aren't going to be able to stop a guy who looks like that from reaching his objective and starting to gun people down, how are they logically going to stop plots of normal-seeming people who seem to be competent at fitting in with regular society? Seems that might be the sort of thing a person in law enforcement might want to be more concerned about, as opposed to going full retard to "prove" a point that's flawed to begin with.
