re: January 1, 2025: Multiple casualties on Bourbon Street after terrorist attack..

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being classified as an "act of terror"

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What pieces of shite to phrase it like that. As if it isn’t one.

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Govt intrusion is subjective. No one messed with the us the US for 60 years after WW2. It's time to put the hammer down in my opinion. Tell the 15 relatives your fine with the collateral damage and see how that goes.

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And during those 60 years, people were more free than they are now. And you want the screws tightened even more.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin

Hours if not a full day before the attack. If Cannibal can’t stop this shite then the patriot act should not be renewed at all. They didn’t stop the January 6th attack either so I am getting very dubious of why they really need access to all our texts phone calls and emails.

Maybe they do just have too much information due to this shite

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So pipe bollards is your cut off? Govt intrusion is subjective. No one messed with the us the US for 60 years after WW2. It's time to put the hammer down in my opinion. Tell the 15 relatives your fine with the collateral damage and see how that goes.

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What, exactly, do you want to be done?

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If Cannibal can’t stop this shite then the patriot act should not be renewed at all. They didn’t stop the January 6th attack either so I am getting very dubious of why they really need access to all our texts phone calls and emails.

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I'm sure we (the general public) don't know what all has been stopped due to these acts. I'm not necessarily sure we need to be privy to this information, or some people would be afraid to leave their own homes.

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Maybe they do just have too much information due to this shite

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I think this is also the case

Also looks like they lost all the probable co-conspirators on this so be prepared for them to claim is was completely another “lone wolf” attack as was the explosion in the Tesla truck at the Trump hotel in Vegas and all is good except they need us to concede a few liberties to them to protect us.

As one of the Founder fathers said,

Those people willing to trade essential
Liberties to temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety- Ben Franklin

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That’s was exactly the point for not doing this, but they said that they had powerful algorithms and AI that would filter out all the non terrorist related shite.

This should have been caught 15 minutes after it was posted max, then they could have quickly found and tracked the truck etc. It’s way more an intelligence failure than a local police failure. We are also supposed to be monitoring all ISIS activities.

Most likely explanation, they are short handed at NSA etc due to the holidays.

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So a couple of things:

1. The only reports I’ve seen are that he recorded videos during his drive. I have not seen it reported that he posted those videos to social media. I took it to mean they found videos on his phone. Maybe I’m missing something though. (ETA: I see a report now saying he posted stuff to social media.)

2. For the sake of argument, let’s say he did post them to social media. The type of response you’re suggesting would require:
- that his accounts are already being monitored
- that the government has AI tools sufficient to immediately scrape that video content from his social media, convert speech in the video to text, understand the intent of the words, and flag it for follow up
- that the government then has the resources to immediately locate this guy in real time (using automated tools with no warrants) and deploy resources to his location on New Year’s Eve
- locating him would either require them to track his cell phone’s physical location without a warrant or somehow ascertain automatically that he was in a rental truck and get the rental’s license plate # without a warrant
- that the FBI is then able to capture and arrest him based on all of this information.. with no warrant, on a holiday

If you think the federal government can do all of that within 15 minutes of a sketchy video being posted to Twitter/FB, you have a lot more faith in them than I do. I believe that the NSA computers are monitoring everything. But I question their ability to isolate truly “meaningful” events quickly, the speed at which that information gets shared within the government, and the FBI’s ability to act on that information (particularly when it’s a US citizen).

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One minute this place labels folks bootlickers who will do whatever daddy government wants, the next minute they want you to comply or die.

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Fair or not, lawyering up makes you look like you have information to hide. No one from the mosque has been charged with or even been connected with any crime. The crime scene was 6 hours away from the mosque. What possible self-incrimination could take place? Releasing a message to not talk to police is suspect.

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There is always a flavor of the day in everything, so I am sure they have been spending more resources on alt right groups than Islamic groups last few years.

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And that was based upon what, exactly? How has the “alt right” proven to be the biggest threat to the country in the last 4 years? Now that the truth has come out about what really happened 1/6, that’s obviously a lie and there were only a handful of agitators, some of whom identified as agents.

The biggest threat has always been from those who want to attack America for what it stands for and that isn’t some 50 year old woman who attended a rally and likely never stepped foot into the building.