Comment Its not cowardess to hide...here is whats coming (Score 2, Interesting) 1084
Ive heard the buzz on the IRC channels about Nostrodamus prediction, "the third great war will begin when the big city burns". I dont know if its a correct quote or not, I've never studied the man's works. But I have a few predictions of my own about the very near future.
People are calling it an act of cowardess that the terrorists are not coming forth to claim responsibility. People are wrong in this. This is not cowardess, it is calculation. With no confirmed villian, there is no clear focus for all the rage and horror over all that has happened. That rage will find its own outlets, in a million different directions. It will begin with prejudice, racial, religious, cultural, political, sexual, take your pick, but the violence will begin where there are already established paths of bitterness and intolerance. An arab terrorist was named repeatedly over the media coverage of todays events. That alone is going to cause several thousand children of arabian descent to go to school tommorow to find other students lining up to assault them. People need to realize it was not the black neighbor down the street, or Apu in the local qwikiemart that was piloting these planes, but that is simply not going to happen. This unfocussed rage will spawn more incidents of violence and hate than a thousand terrorist cells could ever hope to. This is the true genius and horror behind this "act of cowardice".
Next, we are going to have people wondering how the terrorists pulled this off directly under the eagles nose. American planes taking out American landmarks and dear old Uncle Sammy not finding out until 2 minutes too late. How, with all the government monitoring and intelligence, did this get planned and carried out without them knowing? Hmmm..... a global telecommunications network, impossible to monitor or censor effectievly. Sounds like a likely scapegoat to me, no? Fingers are going to start pointing our way real soon, boys and girls, and the results will make carnivore and echelon look like an ameture packet sniffer.
People are calling it an act of cowardess that the terrorists are not coming forth to claim responsibility. People are wrong in this. This is not cowardess, it is calculation. With no confirmed villian, there is no clear focus for all the rage and horror over all that has happened. That rage will find its own outlets, in a million different directions. It will begin with prejudice, racial, religious, cultural, political, sexual, take your pick, but the violence will begin where there are already established paths of bitterness and intolerance. An arab terrorist was named repeatedly over the media coverage of todays events. That alone is going to cause several thousand children of arabian descent to go to school tommorow to find other students lining up to assault them. People need to realize it was not the black neighbor down the street, or Apu in the local qwikiemart that was piloting these planes, but that is simply not going to happen. This unfocussed rage will spawn more incidents of violence and hate than a thousand terrorist cells could ever hope to. This is the true genius and horror behind this "act of cowardice".
Next, we are going to have people wondering how the terrorists pulled this off directly under the eagles nose. American planes taking out American landmarks and dear old Uncle Sammy not finding out until 2 minutes too late. How, with all the government monitoring and intelligence, did this get planned and carried out without them knowing? Hmmm..... a global telecommunications network, impossible to monitor or censor effectievly. Sounds like a likely scapegoat to me, no? Fingers are going to start pointing our way real soon, boys and girls, and the results will make carnivore and echelon look like an ameture packet sniffer.
