Armchair terrorists
Nope, not talking about Azzam al-Amriki, or Azzam the American, the OC terrorist better known as Adam Gadhan, making threats against U.S. diplomatic installations last weekend with his snazzy new look. Everybody's actually buzzing this morning about Freakonomics blogger Steven D. Levitt asking readers to get creative and come up with their own terror techniques. His favorite idea is a multi-city sniping spree. Reader response hasn't been too positive; one commenter writes: "I don’t know about other people, but you posting good suggestions for terrorists [sic] plots gives me a very uneasy feeling."
Well, he's not the first to add ideas to terrorist Cliff's Notes. This list that was published on the Web a few years back was a lot worse, basically an ordered hit list. After all of the clatter over the Freakonomics musings, let's just say that terrorists -- wannabe cells without the biggest brainpower included -- will certainly be checking out the nearly 500 comments now.
Armchair terrorists, eh? I have an idea that came to me this morning as I was briefly listening to another White House Press
Conference. To counterattack terrorism, drop pamphlets on terrorist traing camps advertising that when terrorists are taken prisoner they will be jaled, strapped to an armchair, have feet put in a bucket of cold water, to keep them awake (Not iced water, we don't want to be too cruel) clasp Bose noise reduction headphone on them ( the very best ) and play reruns of President Bush's White House Press Conferences, dating back from the beginning of his presidency. The prisoners can have breaks for coffee, body necessities, meals and prayers. If they fall asleep, slap them gently, to keep them awake until they will tell us all plans Osama Bin Laden and other Muslim honchos have against humanity.