Predictions Re: The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

David Stockhoff · 02 Aug 2012, 21:18 · from 2012-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:18:56 -0400
Subject: (urth) Predictions Re: The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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On 8/2/2012 5:11 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 8/2/2012 6:45 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>
>> On 8/1/2012 11:44 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> Then whenever the terror org needs some publicity, they call in
>>> another arson threat, and everyone running an unsanctioned weenie
>>> roast gets to enjoy the half-assed security theatre "zero tolerance"
>>> policies...
>>
>> All true, but there's a big difference between "terror" and "media
>> hysterics." I just have to assume terrorists know the difference too.
>
> That difference is largely in the eye of the media consumers in 
> countries that rely on popular support of government.
>
>
Perhaps. But even granting that terrorists are not all-knowing why don't 
they try things like this?

My first answer, even before all the other stuff, is: because there are 
so few of them. (Real ones, I mean, not FBI extras.)

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