The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Your surveillance dollars are not well spent!

    By jollyroger on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 7:11pm |
    Zacarias Moussaoui in August, 2001, attracted FBI attention yet eluded investigation despite floridly odd public behavior.

    Tamerlan Tzarnaev, ten years and trillions of anti terror dollars later, attracts FBI attention, then maintains a floridly pro jihad ( public) YouTube channel , yet eludes further investigation.

    Obviously, our security apparatus is overworked in the war on terror.

    (I suggest triage: withdraw funds from the war on drug users.)

    Put another way, if they weren't watching 750,000 people ( Tamerlan's watch list compatriots ) maybe they could have picked up his channel.

    If they weren't watching him, who the fuck were they watching?

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    THEY are watching you Jolly.

    Every goddamn day!

    hahahahahaha

    (Frankly you just have to stop rubbing yourself in front of your PC.

    I mean the behavior is just not PC!)

    THE END

     


    by Richard Day on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 7:55pm

    I only rub when the money is right.

    by jollyroger on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 8:59pm

    It is surprising that the information that Tsarnaev had a YouTube channel didn't come out before this.

    Part of the problem, I'm sure, is that enough nutty stuff gets said on YouTube in English that the nutty stuff said in other languages ends up at the bottom of the pile. (Not a good enough excuse, but nonetheless.)


    by erica20 on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 2:32pm

    Perhaps because I cherish the illusion that my file is so old. that it's inactive I employ linguistic circumspection on the web.

    just like it used to be treason punishable by disembowelment to " compass the death of the king" people who even post with the word death in the same paragraph as a set of names( that shall remain unspoken ) hear from the secret service (" Hey, Nuge!").

    Tamarlan's unremarked postings would seem to argue against the need for obsessive net hygeine.


    by jollyroger on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 7:29pm

    Sam Seder informs us (yesterday's Majority Report ) that the Boston "Fusion Center" (fusing local police and Homeland Security resources) was busy watching...wait for it...the local Occupy Wall Streeters. No time for self-declared admirers of jihad. .

    by jollyroger on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 10:54am