Sunday, June 03, 2007

INFORMANT HELPED CAPTURE TERRORISTS PLOTTING ATTACK AT JFK AIRPORT

It was thanks to a convicted drug dealer turned police informant that the terrorists who were plotting to blow up fuel lines at JFK were captured. It's good to see that a former criminal is doing something honest for a change, and helping to stop dangerous thugs before they can carry out their evil deeds!
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4 comments:

  1. Reliapundit11:00 PM

    if drugs were made legal as m simon wants then we'd lose this valuable stream of info.

    seems to me we need the death penalty to have something to bargain down against; (without it there less leverage to get co-conspirators in some crimes to turn state's evidence), and we need a drug war to get criminals to turn into canaries.

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  2. M. Simon9:31 AM

    Of course. How could I be so stupid.

    We need to support a program that does not accomplish what it is supposed to accomplish, persecutes the traumatized, is responsible for 1/2 the murders in the country, kills a few innocents every year in botched police raids, and is responsible for as much as much as 85% of the non-drug crime in order to prevent terrorist attacks. Because the FBI is otherwise incompetent to ferret out terrorists.

    You know, I bet if we made guns illegal we could get a lot more informants on the street and really empower the secret police.

    Tyranny will keep you safe from terrorism. But, is it a good idea?

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  3. Reliapundit9:49 AM

    you wrote:

    "We need to support a program that does not accomplish what it is supposed to accomplish ... "

    this is false. unless you want "utopian" results.

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  4. M. Simon1:15 PM

    Let me see:

    When the Harrison narcotics act was passed in 1914 about 1% of Americans (more or less) were considered addicts.

    Today the number is around 1%.

    I'm not looking for utopian results. Just some results.

    In exchange for no results we are way undermedicating chronic pain in America. However, their suffering is required in order to get no results. They should be thankful or commit suicide. The ingrates.

    I'm all for that. Making people suffer for the desires of others is what government is for after all. We are quite fortunate that it is only people in pain who are required to suffer. A small minority. Easily ignored.

    BTW if we outlawed tobacco and guns we could have a lot more informants. If we outlawed enough stuff we could turn the whole population into informants.

    It only requires enough laws.

    "Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against . . . We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted [Editor: Obfuscation of meaning is a key element of the con games bureaucrats and politicians play.] -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." Ayn Rand

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