...that Europe or Russia really isn't looking better just about now? As bad as the philippines can be, sometimes I like it better that at least their corruption is out front and in your face, as compared to the obfuscation and prevarication we get here.....

-5.75,-4.05 "The invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people"---George Carlin

it when the group of 7 from Miami had a blackjack as a weapon and the Canadian 17, including 5 youthful offenders, had one gun between 17 people, a flashlight, fertilizer the RCMP had supplied them and what could have been a 'possible' way to arm their alleged bomb...but it didn't look like they had the expertise to explode much more than their tempers? They did have paint ball guns in their training camps like their American counterpart.

I thought for a moment when I read about the 7 in Miami that the boobs from Canada had found a way to multiply beyond our borders, but these appear to be homegrown black Americans. The Canadian and American arrests came as result of being on the Internet which the USA and Canada monitors.

They'll have to come up with more competent terrorist groups before I start to shake in my boots!

I note the latest group the FBI caught who allegedly were going to blow up the NY subway were also Internet groupees.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060708/ts_nm/security_tunnel_dc_3

"The plot was uncovered by monitoring Internet chat rooms, the Daily News reported."

The 17 men accused of plotting to bomb sites in Ontario shouldn't be seen as Muslim terrorists, but as idiotic thugs, if the allegations against them are true, says a University of Toronto psychology professor.

"To call them Muslim terrorists in my estimation is a mistake. They're misguided totalitarian cowards and they're out for revenge," said Jordan Peterson, who studies the psychology of terrorism. "It's dumb and cowardly and they're in the same league, in my estimation, as bone-headed skinheads in Eastern Germany."

Mr. Peterson, an associate professor in U of T's Psychology department, said that calling such people terrorists only romanticizes them and gives them the notoriety they are seeking--potentially leading others to join their cause.

"People like to think that those who are plotting against us are smart, because no one likes to think our society can be attacked by idiots," he said. "(But) they are low-ranked idiots. ... Their lack of intelligence, forethought and courage should be at the forefront."

More from the Ottawa Citizen

Hotheads babbling on the Net? Round them up, because...you just don't know. FBI informant organises "terror plot"...round up the perps, because...you just don't know. One has to believe that this risible nonsense is not the end-all and be-all of "terrorist threats", surely. There has to be loads of investigations, arrests, "renderings/interrogation" happening all the time that aren't passed on to a gullible media and public, and that actually constitute legitimate activity which truly can be properly characterised as "terrorism"....isn't there? One wonders.