OTOH, when the authorities immediately say “not terrorism, he’s crazy” within minutes of arresting someone screaming about jihad, it’s hard to not wonder if they are placating.

MamaAJ on October 23, 2007 at 11:00 AM

Trying to keep the sheeple in a 9/10 frame of mind.

Then Jack(ass) Murtha would say this is another example of our military murdering innocent civilians in cold blood.

CurtZHP on October 23, 2007 at 10:59 AM
…because of the stress. Don’t forget that.

Bryan on October 23, 2007 at 11:00 AM

Someone comes at me with a pair of knives will see how I handle stress. I’ve kept my cool in more stressful situations than a knife and vodka attack.

ROTFL!

Poor sentence construction in the article aside, I, too, was thinking that the guard needs remedial range time.

baldilocks on October 23, 2007 at 10:54 AM

He needs to hold his head in shame.

With all the work the media does downplaying these “lone jihadi” scenarios you have to wonder if in a decade it will to the unfortunate point where they will be common.

But after 116 of these guys… is it still ’sudden Jihad syndrome’?

Every terrorist act prevented is a defeat because the apologists immediately claim that terrorist would not have committed the crime and was ‘entrapped’.

Every successful terrorist attack is a defeat because the apologists claim it is a ‘response’ by powerless victims no matter how absurd those claims might be.

The Michigan Air National Guard maintained two alert birds to intercept intruders into US air space. The Cubans occassionally sent a MiG north to test our reaction time. The F-4Es on alert would also intercept the multitude of drug smugglers trying to fly into Florida, often from the Bahamas.

One time a confused drug smuggler landed on base. When the security police raced out to meet him, he realized his mistake and ran off into the swamp on the far side of the runway and made good his escape. They found a million Quaaludes in his aircraft, which they towed over to the tarmac where they had dozens, maybe a hundred, of captured drug aircraft. There were everything from Cessna 150s to Learjets with a few DC-3s. They all probably got blown away when Hurricane Andrew swept through and nearly squeegeed the base off the map.

Most of the time, the alert birds were scrambled to intercept clueless doctors and lawyers who had enough money to fly but not enough sense to bone up on the flying regulations. You’d often find them lumbering along in restricted areas. They didn’t realize that the Bahamas were outside the US and you really, REALLY needed to file a flight plan to enter US airspace from a foreign country.

While I was there a family was flying back from the Bahamas in bad weather without a flight plan. The alert birds were scrambled and hunting for them down in the soup. Light planes don’t show up well on radar. While attempting an intercept, one of the F-4s collided with the light aircraft, putting its wing through the cockpit. There was a hot complaint from the victims’ family that no search was made for survivors. However, the Air Force knew there was no point in making a search, though it didn’t say so publicly. The scalp of one of the passengers was wedged in the leading edge slats of the F-4E which collided with the plane.

And mostly they’re all Good.

They don’t call them “weekend warriors” for nothing!

idiot! Next time just cut your wrists!

derka derka!

- The Cat

Your government at work.

You’re mistaking jihadism with “patriotism” — a real, genuine, bonafide mental illness, according to official MoveOn.org documents and MediaMatters(not!) internal documents.

As are the majority of people who submitted questions on the “10 Questions” website.

What is happening to our country?

I remember what our local sheriff said when asked why the cop killing SOB was shot 64 times (after he raised his stolen gun in direction of the officers). “Because they ran out of bullets”!! I did not vote for him in the election but you can be darn sure that I will if he runs again!

Or has the psychiatric profession dubbed jihadism an official mental illness without telling the rest of us?

Wanting to kill yourself and others is not a mental illness?????

uhm…. Ho-kaay.

Remember how CAIR was exposed to have shrunk to only 1700 members? IMO, Muslims in this country just want to be left alone and have no interest in identifying with radical political Islam, and with violence even less so.
RushBaby on October 23, 2007 at 11:43 AM

True radicals are not going to join such a high-profile organization as CAIR. I doubt any of the 9-11 hijackers were members.

I’ve said this before: I’m concerned that it could be an actual majority of Muslims who would do nothing to help stop radicals. In 1990, police could not get any help from the Muslim community concerning an assassination at the Tucson mosque. They were told: “The people who did this were Muslim. The Qur’an teaches us ‘Better the worst Muslim than the best unbeliever’. We are therefore forbidden to do anything which could cause a Muslim to come to harm at the hands of an unbeliever.” Same reaction with the Ontario jihadis.

Oh, and saint kansas at 11:47 – Even if his ineptness got him docked most of his virgins, he’d be doing better than he likely is here.

So laughable, it hurts. Since when has the requirement for someone to be deemed a “terrorist” included mental stability? Must it also include membership in an organization? Case #4,134 in the files of personal jihad. Miami Herald:Wielding two butcher…

One of the guards fired at him as he rushed the base gate but didn’t hit him …

Wha…?!