SO scared right now

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

OMG there was an attempted terrorist attack at the Christmas tree lighting a block from my apt. SO SCARY. I didn’t go because of the crowds, but still. I’m shaking. I feel so vulnerable all the time. It’s worse because I’m such a loner that I’m certain my cats would starve to death if anything happened to me. No one would know until it’s too late. I wish there was something I could do. Some way to ensure they’d be taken care of. I don’t free feed them because so many vets have said not to. Maybe I should start….but I don’t want them to become obese. I wish there was an emergency way for them to get food in case I didn’t come home for awhile. I’m so panicked. I can handle if something happened to me. I have pretty strong faith……..but I can’t handle the idea of them starving to death after days of meowing for food. I don’t know what to do.

[Heinriech Heisner]

@Umair:
Somalia, plausible -- I don't know enough about that part of the world to argue for or against, but given your statements, it's plausible.

White Guy Scenario -- Yeah, I know it had nothing to do with the movie -- it just reminded me of it because people were being arrested for never actually having committed a crime. Like I said, I am kind of in between on the entrapment case. I pointed out the positive effect, but I am more leaning towards the negative. If the government is doing that to "potential terrorists", how long will it be before they start targeting regular citizens -- anyone, provided a specific situation will act one way or the other, but most of the time those situations don't materialize. What if these agents started offering non-threatening people opportunities to gain wealth or material things or something of value and began arresting them based on their actions -- is that right? I guess I don't believe that anyone should be punished unless they commit an actual crime or are caught in the act of (which doesn't include a set up, with perfect conditions).

[Penguin]

'Who tells you that the USA bullies Somalia and what purpose would that serve us? Why would the United States care about bullying Somalia? How would that serve our agenda?'

I laughed :D

[Heinriech Heisner]

Cordellia, if you are worried about your cats, you should have someone that is aware of them. Maybe talk to a neighbor about it or something. Rig up a device that auto-feeds them for up to a month. Someone ought to notice you missing after a month, your landlord (if you have one).

[Heinriech Heisner]

Really Umair? It sounds like you are just making this stuff up -- where's your evidence? Who tells you that the USA bullies Somalia and what purpose would that serve us? Why would the United States care about bullying Somalia? How would that serve our agenda?

While I don't completely agree with entrapment and arresting someone for a crime that never actually happened ... had the situation been real, that kid went through with it with, according to news sources, no doubts in his mind. There is nothing stating that the FBI did anything to instigate his decisions. Besides, WE are trying to prevent terrorists from feeling safe in plotting things against us. If they don't know who to trust, that makes us safer -- not much different from what they tried to do to us. (You do have a point about the white guy though. It's like that one movie where the cops can see into the future and the crimes you are going to commit, then arrest you before you commit the crime ... ) Still, these aren't normal circumstances. We are at war and the threats are real.

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

What do "white guys" have to do with it? You don't even know the race of the people involved or the religion. If you're shopping around trying to get explosives and some jack-asses says he has some......it's their fault if you buy them? Did you not read the part where the guy was trying to get in touch with violent extremists so he could set this up?

Or are you so against the American people that you think it's ok to bomb us? That's what it sounds like. I don't know what your problem with America is, and it doesn't matter. There is NO excuse for trying to kill people. If you shop around for some explosives and some guy offers them to you and you try to kill people then YOU'RE STILL a terrorist. They offered him many chances to get out of it, even reminding him there were children there. He wanted it. He wanted to kill people.

I don't know where you got this fantasy about them paying him millions. Just because you read some article about some guy and some shady dealings doesn't mean they paid this guy. You're completely making this up. There is NOTHING to suggest they were paying him. That's ridiculous. HE was the instigator. They got a tip and tried to stop him.

How is that wrong? Are you saying we should have let him go? What if he had met a real weapons dealer? The guy wanted to do this. He DETONATED it for goodness sakes. If that happened..........would you be on the side of the victims or the terrorist?
That guy could've killed me, and you're siding with him. Do you hear yourself and the random hatred you're spewing?

I don't care how much money you offer me. You'd NEVER get me to blow up a bunch of people. You're talking about greed.........and in the same breath using that as a justification for a guy to commit a mass murder. You call Americans greedy...........but if some jackass takes millions to kill people then he's a victim? You will never catch me with that much hatred in my heart.

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

This guy was dreaming of it since he was 15 & didn't care that he would be killing children. How exactly is he a victim again?
http://www.kgw.com/news/Feds-Somali-born-teen-plotted-car-bombing-a...

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

"Naive "terrorist"? Are you seriously implying this guy who tried to blow up thousands of people (possibly killing me) is some kind of victim? I can't even believe you would put those 2 words together. Terrorists KILL people. How dare you imply they're some sort of victims and that the government is the big bully? The guy was shopping around for a terrorist job. He was trying to kill people. Do you not even care about that? What exactly are you trying to say here? Whose side are you on?

[Penguin]

Wasn't the dude basically entrapped? I think your kitties have nothing to worry about :P