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Mar 26 2016 08:24pm
Quote (hATemOnkEy @ Mar 26 2016 10:15pm)
I don't disagree with this.

And I do think in general our nuclear plants could do with a bit of hightened security.

But I really do believe that it's not in our best interest to speculate on all possible threats.

Of course I don't mean that we can't act pro-actively, but taking measures to stifle any and all possible attacks would deteriorate our quality of life in such ways that it doesn't seem worth it. This is what I think the endgoals of the terrorists are, to influence us in such a way that we change our view on and our ways of life.


...I will disagree if I may...terror is a tactic ; the end goal of militant Islam is a global caliphate as soon as possible and by any means they deem necessary .
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Mar 27 2016 07:49am
Quote (hATemOnkEy @ Mar 26 2016 10:15pm)
I don't disagree with this.

And I do think in general our nuclear plants could do with a bit of hightened security.

But I really do believe that it's not in our best interest to speculate on all possible threats.

Of course I don't mean that we can't act pro-actively, but taking measures to stifle any and all possible attacks would deteriorate our quality of life in such ways that it doesn't seem worth it. This is what I think the endgoals of the terrorists are, to influence us in such a way that we change our view on and our ways of life.


...as an addendum ...the latest scuttlebutt reports that Belgium is greatly concerned about an ISIS drone attack against a nuclear facility .
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Mar 27 2016 08:06am
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 27 2016 08:49am)
...as an addendum ...the latest scuttlebutt reports that Belgium is greatly concerned about an ISIS drone attack against a nuclear facility .


Four words: Coalition of the Willing. Now maybe they Will be willing to put boots on the ground where the problem is coming from.
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Mar 27 2016 04:22pm
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 27 2016 06:49am)
...as an addendum ...the latest scuttlebutt reports that Belgium is greatly concerned about an ISIS drone attack against a nuclear facility .


Nuclear plants are designed to be able to withstand a crash from a large commercial airliner and still not release any harmful radiation. The idea of ISIS getting a hold of a drone large enough to be able to cause any significant damage to a nuclear facility... not to mention sneaking in such a weapon into Europe without anyone noticing, and having access to a launchpad is of the most implausible circumstances one could make up. Such a notion is no more capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own dreams.

The scenarios you come up with are never in any correlation to reality. These terrorists don't sneak flying crafts into Europe.. they don't even sneak in their own bombs, they design them with whatever materials they were able to gather in the country under the radar. That's why their bombs fail most the time.. there are only two example in US history of Islamic extremists successfully detonating a bomb in the America, one was the 1993 world trade center attack, the other was the Boston marathon bombing.

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Mar 27 2016 04:25pm
I agree with OP. Just by the numbers, terrorism is not the biggest threat to this country.

Larger threats to our democracy include income inequality, Wall Street corruption and lobbyism, and increasingly restrictive voting laws.
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Mar 27 2016 04:29pm
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Nuclear plants are designed to be able to withstand a crash from a large commercial airliner and still not release any harmful radiation. The idea of ISIS getting a hold of a drone large enough to be able to cause any significant damage to a nuclear facility... not to mention sneaking in such a weapon into Europe without anyone noticing, and having access to a launchpad is of the most implausible circumstances one could make up. Such a notion is no more capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own dreams.

The scenarios you come up with are never in any correlation to reality. These terrorists don't sneak flying crafts into Europe.. they don't even sneak in their own bombs, they design them with whatever materials they were able to gather in the country under the radar. That's why their bombs fail most the time.. there are only two example in US history of Islamic extremists successfully detonating a bomb in the America, one was the 1993 world trade center attack, the other was the Boston marathon bombing.


Have you contacted the intelligence agencies of western Europe and the United States? They may be wasting millions/billions of dollars worrying about a non existent threat, and you could put a stop to it.
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Mar 27 2016 04:31pm
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I agree with OP. Just by the numbers, terrorism is not the biggest threat to this country.

Larger threats to our democracy include income inequality, Wall Street corruption and lobbyism, and increasingly restrictive voting laws.


How many Americans would be killed by terrorism without our massive security/intelligence/law enforcement apparatus? What do you think those people do all day... play solitaire?
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Mar 27 2016 04:36pm
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Have you contacted the intelligence agencies of western Europe and the United States? They may be wasting millions/billions of dollars worrying about a non existent threat, and you could put a stop to it.


uhh.. they don't need me to put a stop to anything, because it is not happening. In 15 years of the war on terror it hasn't happened, and 15 years from today it still won't happen...

Of course we should take the necessary precautions.. say they do intercept a military grade drone and manage to hack into its navigation system. We should be able to shoot that drone down before it comes within 100 miles of a nuclear facility

Fun fact, did you know that Reagan and Gorbachev had a coalition military plan in case of an alien invasion of earth? Not a likely scenario to occur, but we made plans to prepare ourselves none the less

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Mar 27 2016 04:40pm
I always like to say you're more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by Islamic terrorism. But hey republicans will always use this to their advantage to fear monger and get more popularity. Terrorism is a difficult thing to prevent. It's not like nothing is being done about it.
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Mar 27 2016 05:38pm
Quote (TCassa89 @ Mar 27 2016 06:22pm)
Nuclear plants are designed to be able to withstand a crash from a large commercial airliner and still not release any harmful radiation. The idea of ISIS getting a hold of a drone large enough to be able to cause any significant damage to a nuclear facility... not to mention sneaking in such a weapon into Europe without anyone noticing, and having access to a launchpad is of the most implausible circumstances one could make up. Such a notion is no more capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own dreams.

The scenarios you come up with are never in any correlation to reality. These terrorists don't sneak flying crafts into Europe.. they don't even sneak in their own bombs, they design them with whatever materials they were able to gather in the country under the radar. That's why their bombs fail most the time.. there are only two example in US history of Islamic extremists successfully detonating a bomb in the America, one was the 1993 world trade center attack, the other was the Boston marathon bombing.


...oh my , no one's talking about a military class drone :wacko:

A readily available Yuneec Tornado H920 RTF packed with enough TATP can do tremendous damage . You need to learn how to think outside the box , kinda like terrorists do .
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