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by gmoore 4727 days ago
Really? Government plans to kill people is the same thing as you thinking your sister-in-law is hot??

You were right the post being silly......

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Sorry, I just can't get excited about a "plot" that never went beyond the stage of fantasy. When it was revealed that the FBI had a habit of finding nutty losers with terrorist fantasies, encouraging them in their planning, promising to provide them with explosives, and then "stopping" them and marking it up as an averted terrorist attack (and putting the poor saps in prison for years) everyone knew it was ridiculous. This is pretty much the same thing. Fantasy is a long way from reality. (Is there any unhappy fourteen year old who hasn't dreamed of offing a few of his teachers and classmates?) I really don't care if some weirdos in the Houston PD have daydreams of heroically saving civilization from Communists or crypto-Islamists or patchouli-scented reptilian overlords or whoever they thought Occupy was. Their only real crime (as opposed to fantasy crime) was not being able to tell the difference between a document that belongs in the "/Users/HoustonPopo/MelGibsonFanfic" folder and a document that belongs in the "/Users/HoustonPopo/ContingencyPlans" folder. Sounds like a good reason for internal disciplinary action, but not for FBI intervention.

Meanwhile, we have no idea what this plan is contingent on. The U.S. military made contingency plans for a hostile invasion of Canada, for goodness' sake.