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    "Report suspicious activity! Total Bull----! You have created a self fulfilling prophecy"

    Thus says the note in the packages delivered yesterday and today in the DC area that burst into flame when opened.

    I don't like those signs either. Remind me of communist-style thought police.

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    The suspect has already been branded a "terrorist".
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    He was probably acting suspiciously. If only someone reported him...
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    Quote Originally Posted by DanS View Post
    Thus says the note in the packages delivered yesterday and today in the DC area that burst into flame when opened.

    I don't like those signs either. Remind me of communist-style thought police.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...IDDLTopStories
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    Quote Originally Posted by DanS View Post

    I don't like those signs either. Remind me of communist-style thought police.

    I haven't seen them. Is this like a Crime Stoppers sort of thing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wezil View Post
    The suspect has already been branded a "terrorist".
    How can one be a terrorist when the domestic population likely agrees with his cause?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MRT144 View Post
    How can one be a terrorist when the domestic population likely agrees with his cause?
    You tell me?

    As with "fascist", the word is being so overused and its definition so stretched that it is starting to have little real meaning anymore.

    edit - From CNN

    "If their ideology is they are trying to disrupt the government to get their point across, then they are a terrorist," Sheridan said.
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    I have reported this thread to the moderators. It seems posters here have something to hide.
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    Those "report suspicious activity" signs downtown piss me off too. I saw one graffiti'd with "end big brother--nobama" on it, which leads me to believe it isn't really popular with anyone, as it doesn't seem like a Democrat thing either.

    Whoever graffiti'd it was an idiot though. It was in sharpie.
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    I feel that those signs should be reported for being suspicious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DanS View Post
    Remind me of McCarthy-style thought police.
    fixed

    Apart from that, I agree
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