[forkies]

This year's Christmas week has been quite the week of terror. The national threat level was raised early in the week on Sunday, alerting all citizens of the possibility of terror. Sure enough, the next day terror struck, followed by a series of other terror-inducing incidents which only rose in their level of destruction:

Dec. 21
"Threat Level Raised"

Dec. 22
"Earthquake collapses historic building, killing 2"

Dec. 24
"First 'mad cow' case rattles US"

Dec. 25
"Seven found dead in US mudslides"

Dec. 26
"The Interior Ministry says up to 20,000 people died in the quake and at least 30,000 were injured. "

"Quake survivors survey devastation"


Though the terror alert was at orange it didn't stop the latest round of terror from striking. Many people around the world were affected by this week's barrage of terror...How do these latest incidents affect you and how do you feel knowing that the government was right on top of the situation by keeping us alert?

[vmarks]

Check your definition of terrorism-

Earthquakes are natural and so-far unpreventable- not terrorism.

Mudslides, unless started by people with a political axe to grind, are not terrorism.

Mad-cow on it's own is not terrorism, but infecting a cow intentionally would qualify.

The terror alert is meant to warn of increased risk of terrorism. None of the events you named were the result of terrorism, although they certainly struck fear in the hearts of people.

[macvillage.net]

Originally posted by vmarks:
Check your definition of terrorism-

Umm..

He clearly said "Terror" not "Terorrism"..


Lots of bad things to strike terror in people.

Terror to most is a synonym for fear. All those events do cause fear:

"Threat Level Raised"

Nuff said

"Earthquake collapses historic building, killing 2"

Historically smaller quakes preceed larger ones (though USGS says don't expect one thins time). Can't help but to think they *could* be wrong. Been a long time since the last bad one in the area. All agree it's overdue.

"First 'mad cow' case rattles US"

Not much to say here, but it will make people fear meat, or their investments in it. Will cost billions at least.

"Seven found dead in US mudslides"

Warnings all fall that this would happen. Most experts predict more as the fires did some damage. Though casualties are pretty easy to avoid as they are somewhat predictable and can be avoided in almost all cases.

"The Interior Ministry says up to 20,000 people died in the quake and at least 30,000 were injured. "

Same as quake above.

[spacefreak]

Originally posted by macvillage.net:
Umm..

He clearly said "Terror" not "Terorrism".

Actually, he clearly stated: "The national threat level was raised early in the week on Sunday, alerting all citizens of the possibility of terror. Sure enough, the next day terror struck..."

Does our government often raise the "national terror threat level" when earthquakes and mudslides are predicted as forthcoming?

[hyteckit]

Yeah, he said terror, not terrorism, but the above person is right. Government does not warn us about natural desasters.

Here is more:

Mudslide kills over 120 in philipphines

[forkies]

omg i'm playing on the ambiguity that the government creates with a phrase like "war on terror"

geez

[lil'babykitten]

Oh FFS why are you all playing on words? The point he is making is clear. It has been a terrible week for many people.

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by lil'babykitten:
Oh FFS why are you all playing on words? The point he is making is clear. It has been a terrible week for many people.

Sadly, this entire forum has devolved into pointless semantic sniping, devoid of thought or content. The only thing that matters is personally attacking others and shutting down threads, adding another notch to your belt if you succeed.

sad. I miss maxelson, timo and others who could actually DISCUSS something instead of hurling barbs at each other.

[vmarks]

The terror alert is meant to warn of increased risk of terrorism. None of the events you named were the result of terrorism, although they certainly struck fear in the hearts of people.

His post clearly states that as soon as the threat level of terrorism was raised, horrible natural disasters struck, and "Though the terror alert was at orange it didn't stop the latest round of terror from striking. Many people around the world were affected by this week's barrage of terror...How do these latest incidents affect you and how do you feel knowing that the government was right on top of the situation by keeping us alert?"

It's absurd nonsense. It equates natural disasters with terrorism and attempts to say that the War on Terror is a fraud because the government doesn't warn of natural disasters (which it never was supposed to, or can be able of doing.)

There's no sniping here, there's nothing to discuss, other than what motive the poster has for creating such a strained thought.

Once again, Lerk tells me to not post, because he doesn't like the content. Sorry, Lerk- I'm not going to stop discussing because you don't like it when I refute or disprove bizarre conspiracy theories or absurd and unreal connections.

Even when LBK fails to read the point he is making: Not only was it a terrible week for may people, the original poster is connecting that to the War on Terror and marking the government down as a failure - even though the government threat level has nothing to do with natural disasters.

The original poster was playing wildly with semantics, and Lerk would blame the rest of us for correcting that error.

[eklipse]

Originally posted by vmarks:
The terror alert is meant to warn of increased risk of terrorism. None of the events you named were the result of terrorism, although they certainly struck fear in the hearts of people.

His post clearly states that as soon as the threat level of terrorism was raised, horrible natural disasters struck, and "Though the terror alert was at orange it didn't stop the latest round of terror from striking. Many people around the world were affected by this week's barrage of terror...How do these latest incidents affect you and how do you feel knowing that the government was right on top of the situation by keeping us alert?"

It's absurd nonsense. It equates natural disasters with terrorism and attempts to say that the War on Terror is a fraud because the government doesn't warn of natural disasters (which it never was supposed to, or can be able of doing.)

There's no sniping here, there's nothing to discuss, other than what motive the poster has for creating such a strained thought.

Once again, Lerk tells me to not post, because he doesn't like the content. Sorry, Lerk- I'm not going to stop discussing because you don't like it when I refute or disprove bizarre conspiracy theories or absurd and unreal connections.

Even when LBK fails to read the point he is making: Not only was it a terrible week for may people, the original poster is connecting that to the War on Terror and marking the government down as a failure - even though the government threat level has nothing to do with natural disasters.

The original poster was playing wildly with semantics, and Lerk would blame the rest of us for correcting that error.