Your very own suspected terrorist

"Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net wrote in message ...
"Michael" wrote in message:
Yeah, and he was having my apartment watched. And my truck was being
tailed when he called me that morning. Sure. You keep telling
yourself that.

As for me, I call bull****.

You can call it anything you want. What you describe would have happened
AFTER you screwed up one of your answers.


Think about it Marco. If Michael had been a real terrorist, he
would have disappeared the moment he saw an FBI agent's card on his
door. If the FBI had thought he was a real terrorist, they would not
have left the card on his door. This was just another case of a law
enforcement agency doing "cover your ass" paperwork. Much like the
police that visited the lady in MA who inquired about flight sim
software for her 10 yr. old son.

The downside to this is that this kind of paperwork often leaves a
paper trail in the bureaucracy that can be misinterpreted at a later
date (been there, done that). If I were Michael, I wouldn't plan any
trips out of the country for the next decade or so.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

Hi,

Recently, Michael posted:

And therein lies the point. If I were a real terrorist, I would be
long gone unless I was a total moron. What the FBI agent did could
not possibly be of any use in catching a real terrorist who is not a
total moron - all it's good for is hassling regular law-abiding
citizens. Which is all the anti-terrorist measures implemented after
9/11 ever succeed in doing.

Excellent points. I think our biggest weakness is how we think everyone
else in the world is more stupid than we are. There is no policy or
practice that will thwart a determined effort by a half-smart terrorist,
given that even the half-assed and downright crazy ones get over
successfully. I am *so* tired of our governments' extravagant and
pointless efforts to placate the public.

Neil

EDR wrote:

What kind of rain forest is Olympic?

They call that a temperate weather rain forest. There's at least one in Washington
State and another larger one in Canada.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

Jay Honeck wrote:

What the hell our federal government is doing building rain forests in Iowa
is simply beyond me. Even the local newspaper -- as left wing, pork-barrel
project loving as you can imagine -- has publicly ridiculed the idea.

I take it that the lunch counter there will specialize in barbeque.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

Michael wrote:

You are completely missing the point. Had I been an actual terrorist,
the meeting at which I answered his questions would never have taken
place. When I saw the card on the door I would have bolted.

In which case, the FBI would have accomplished their objective and have foiled
whatever plot the terrorist had in mind.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

John Galban wrote:

Much like the
police that visited the lady in MA who inquired about flight sim
software for her 10 yr. old son.

Actually, the police in MA didn't "visit"; they went prowling around the property
shining flashlights in the windows. Too chicken-**** to ring the doorbell.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

On 23 Jan 2004 11:47:13 -0800, (Michael) wrote:

A dark tan (we don't have much of a winter in Houston, and I tan easily) and
a beard sealed the deal.

Gee Michael, just look in a mirror. Any good 'mericun would believe
you were a terrorist. :-)

Don't bring the feds with you to Pinckneyville. Don't even tell them
about Pinckneyville. Check your plane for a secret transponder before
you fly.

See you in May.

- John Ousterhout -

Michael,

the reactions to your original post are truly scary.

--
Thomas

Wdtabor opined

In article DcDQb.144901$na.231057@attbi_s04, "Jay Honeck"
writes:


The bank sent me a past due notice for the difference, which I paid the
next
day. It took 8 months to get the excess back from the IRS.

Well, Don, I can top that. As some of you know, as an employer, I must pay
employee withholding (Medicare/Medicaid and Federal) tax, known as "941
Tax."


Ever wonder why we have all this silliness of 940's & 941's & W2's and
Rainforests in Iowa? It really shouldn't be a surprise, any system of
taxation and spending based on a complex deception should be expected to have
goofy results and applications.

Anyone smart enough to fill out a flight plan has already figured out that
taxes on corporations are really taxes on the consumers of whatever that
corporation sells. But the same thing is really true of payroll taxes on
individuals as well.

Actually, it is not clear who pays corporate taxes. The choices are employees,
customers or owners. But it is not corporations.

See http://lpva.com/main/Archives/Editor...r/20040106.htm


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"Ash Wyllie" wrote in message
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Wdtabor opined

Actually, it is not clear who pays corporate taxes. The choices are
employees,
customers or owners. But it is not corporations.

Actually, it's quite clear:

Owners through pass through taxes, and customers as a part of the price they
pay for goods and services.

As for employees, well, to the extent of payroll and employers portion of
FICA.

--
"He that would make his own liberty secure,
must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty, he establishes
a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine