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There Are Far Fewer Terror Attacks Now Than In the 1970s
The terror threat is greatly exaggerated. After all, the type of counter-terror experts who frequently appear on the mainstream news are motivated to hype the terror threat, because it drums up business for them.
The same is true for government employees. As former FBI assistant director Thomas Fuentes put it last week:
If you’re submitting budget proposals for a law enforcement agency, for an intelligence agency, you’re not going to submit the proposal that “We won the war on terror and everything’s great,” cuz the first thing that’s gonna happen is your budget’s gonna be cut in half.
You know, it’s my opposite of Jesse Jackson’s “Keep Hope Alive”—it’s “Keep Fear Alive.” Keep it alive.
Fearmongering also serves political goals. For example, FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, a top constitutional and military law expert, Time magazine, the Washington Post and others have all said that U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power”. Indeed, the former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge admitted that he was pressured to raise terror alerts to help Bush win reelection. Former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski – also a top foreign policy advisor to President Obama – told the Senate that the war on terror is a “a mythical historical narrative”.
Indeed, the government justifies its geopolitical goals – including seizing more power at home, and overthrowing oil-rich countries – by hyping the terror menace. So the government wants you to be scared out of your pants by the risk of terrorism. No wonder national security employees see a terrorist under every bush.
But terrorism has actually dramatically declined in the United States. Daniel Benjamin – the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the United States Department of State from 2009 to 2012 – noted last month (at 10:22):
The total number of deaths from terrorism in recent years has been extremely small in the West. And the threat itself has been considerably reduced. Given all the headlines people don’t have that perception; but if you look at the statistics that is the case.
Indeed, the Washington Post noted in 2013 that the number of terror attacks in the U.S. has plummeted since the 1970s:

Indeed, you’re now much more likely to be killed by brain-eating parasites, texting while driving, toddlers, lightning, falling out of bed, alcoholism, food poisoning, a financial crash, obesity, medical errors or “autoerotic asphyxiation” than by terrorists.
Obviously, a huge number of innocent Americans – 3,000 – were killed on 9/11 … a single terror attack.
However, 9/11 – like the Boston Bombing (and the Paris terror attack) – happened because mass surveillance replaced traditional anti-terror measures. Similarly, Cheney and company were criminally negligent.
And the “War on Terror” has been counter-productive, and only increased the terrorism problem.
If we had stuck with tried-and-true anti-terror techniques, high-fatality events like 9/11 would never have happened.
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Less attacks
Many more media outlets that use the word "terror" 100X a day.
Hey GW are you talking about ISLAMIC terrorism? I want to make sure you are talking about ISLAMIC terrorism because you do not mention it at all in your article. Why don't you mention that it is ISLAMIC terrorism burning people alive in cages?
Oh BTW the number of ISLAMIC terror attacks since 9/11 is over 25,000. Just about 4000 dead bodies in the last month alone.
http://thereligionofpeace.com/
Damn GW you sure bend over and spread wide for murdering Islam, you made my "disgusting dhimmi" of the week award.
Grimaldus
Because GW thinks they are all American or Israeli stooges, or actual American and Israeli agents controlled by a global Zionest conspiracy that rules the globe. But even though he is smarter than everyone else and has their number pegged, some how the Global Zionist Conspiracy allows him to live and publish, which can only mean one thing, his is one of them - a Zionist Agent. Face it, GW is a Zionist agent. A provacatuer of the grand conspiracy so the Jews can kidnap and eat your babies.
LOL
Grimaldus: You are a complete idiot.
oudinot that is the nicest thing anyone has said to me today!
I did not argue any of GW points and agree with most. But GW's article intentionally lacks perspective and balance, which I have supplied.
You are welcome.
Grimaldus
"Obviously, a huge number of innocent Americans – 3,000 – were killed on 9/11 … a single terror attack."
- My understanding is that approximately 1000 of those were foreigners
Not Israelis though. They all were pre-warned and got out or didn't go to work. Same for the dualies like Silverstein, whose wife allegely set up am emergency dermatology appointment earlier that morning. Same for his kids who were scheduled to eat breakfast with him on the top floor of WTC 1 that morning. Fortunately the dermatology emergency was taken care of so he could order and supervise the pulling" of WTC 7 later that evening.
An estimate 18% of the deaths in the 9/11 were Jewish (http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/how_many_jews_died_at_the_worl...)
He never ordered the "pulling" of WTC 7. The New York City Fire Chief called him and told him the fires in the building were out of control and was in danger of collapsing. He thanked the NYC fire department for their efforts, asked for no further efforts to be taken to save the building, and asked the Chief to PULL his personnel out of the building. This is clear context of that conversation. The word "pull" was not used in the demolition context or atttacking cables to the side of the building and pulling it down. The building collapsed way before anything like that could have been done, nor is their any evidence that anythinglike that was done. How could it have been with hundreds of cameras and witnesses running around? If you would like to learn how and why WTC 7 collapsed, I will glad to inform you.
As for your other insane rantings, yeah, the Mossad called each and every Israeli and Jew and told them to stay away from work. That's one heck of phone tree. The stupidity you cite was originated by Al-Marar Television, a pro-Hamas telivision station in Lebanon which refered to the attack as "an accident."
Now for some facts - various estimates of the number of Jews killed in the attack have been made. Based on identifiable jews killed as a sample of all people with a know religious affiliation, it has been estimate that as many as 18% of the people killed on 9/11 were Jewish, above the percentage of jews in the general population of New York City. Other estimates have the Jewish death rate in line the percentage in the general population of NYC.
In addition, five Israeli citizens died in the attack. Their names were: Shai Levinhar, Hagai Shefi, Leon Libor, Daniel Levin and Alona Avraham.
The sheeple are trained by their media masters to emote to the word terror. There is no thinking when the word terror is used. Mean nasty people kill other people. It's been going on from before recorded history. Also, lightning, autos, boats, airplanes, falls in the tub, medical errors and bees kill people.
War on terror links two emoting nouns. Emote is the alternative to think. Whenever you're asked to emote, you are being fooled to not think. Everything the government says is a lie to fool to accept their governing.
Terror is a just a word. Islam is submission to God. Terrorism is what government uses to get your submission.
Read the chart....IN THE UNITED STATES NOT world wide!
The .gov terrorist attacks on their citizens of the United States of America has increased dramatically since 1971:
Ruby Ridge
Oklahoma City Bombing and real American Heros who tried to investigate
Waco massacre
911
Occupy Wall Street protesters
Thousands of Americans that have been killed by military fortified police (most by just selling weed)
Like brian Williams, someone has misremembered the facts.
Yes, terrorism, practiced, was far worse in the "70's. Many people now believe that some of the "terrorist" factions belonging to that era: Baader-Meinhof, PFLP, Red Army, et al., were groups invented and financially supported by the "intelligence" communities such as MI5, CIA, Interpol, FBI, etc. Wish I had some links for you folks, but I cannot remember what form of media this hypothesis was introduced. Interesting theories, though.
It's a very old tactic to for security agencies to create radical organizations and see who shows up and knocks on the door. It's not clear, for the most part, which were security service created and which were organic, but, it is irrefutable that various national security services create radical organizations to help pull the radicals out of the wood work so they can be identified and tracked. It is also irrefutable that national security services have created and supported radical and violent groups in countries they percieve as threats, adversaries, or competitors. It does not follow, however, that all such radical and extremist groups are the product of some government plot.
Too bad nothing is being done about financial terrorism
Financial terrorism destroys far more lives than physical terrorism.
Fiat games.
Funny the spike in terrorism in the 1970s was Bill Ayers and other commie scum
OH MAIH GUAADD!
Tell us, RM, if all peoples are entropic pumps, operating with outside sources of energy to convert/consume natural resources, how should such a system be organized? Shall we do away with all private claims on resources? So the biggest bullies claims to those resources are denied? (By whom? by definition, bigger bullies!)
God put his physical world into trust for man; man does not own the world, but has naked use of the resources he can find and use to his benefit. Applying his labor to improve the condition or utility of natural resources is the only way man creates a claim of ownership. Once Able plows the field and grows the crop, Cain cannot then establish a greater claim over Able's work product. The natural right to claim ownership of one's labor, and when applied to resources, to claim ownership of the work product, is the basis of civilization. Apparently we need a worker's revolt...
Fishhawk
Fishhawk, there are no solutions other than to continue to muddle through the madness of different systems of organized lies and robberies engaged in various degrees of shifting sorts of competition and cooperation with each other.
My own day dreams, with respect to possible ways to create genuinely better resolutions of the chronic political problems inherent in the nature of life, are based on a series of political miracles that enough people will understand enough, so that there could be greater use of information enabling higher consciousness. I indulge in my own kinds of political science fiction and fantasy that there could emerge some kind of transnational scientific community, which would be driven by the future crises, to go through enough intellectual scientific revolutions to be able to provide the basis for new kinds of ruling classes.
I regard the members of the scientific community, including engineers and technicians, to be the aristocracy of the "workers." (As well, most of the military these days are actually more and more qualified to be members of the scientific community, due to their jobs requiring that kind of knowledge, more than any previous kinds of brute force, as in the past.) In that context, therefore, I regard the view that "we need a workers' revolt" to primarily be that we need a transnational scientific community to go through sufficient intellectual scientific revolutions, that they would be able to understand and agree enough with paradigm shifts in political science, so that there could be developed better integrated systems of human, industrial and natural ecology, which primarily means that the combined money/murder systems need better death controls to back up better debt controls.
I am NOT saying that we could stop human beings from being entropic pumps of energy. It is NOT possible to stop human beings from operating as systems of lies and robbery. However, it might be possible for the evolutionary ecology of those factors to develop better balances. Thus, my point is NOT to say we should stop the world from being controlled by organized crime, but rather that we should develop better organized crime, which would require better opposition groups to the established systems, that were not so totally controlled to stay within the same bullshit based on false fundamental dichotomies and related impossible ideals, as they mostly are now.
As a matter of fact, I regard the most important labour that human beings engage in is when they kill each other. I regard militarism as the supreme ideology. Since we DO have weapons of mass destruction, it is imperative that we change the paradigms with which we think about our death controls .... Of course, so far, nothing like that is happening, since the established systems are based on the maximum possible deceits, such as that many of the most significant "terrorist attacks" throughout history have been false flag attacks.
The biggest problem with respect to developing any better resolutions of the chronic political problems inherent in the nature of human life has been the deeper reasons why and how the methods of organized crime became the most socially successful ones, to the degree that there is now almost nothing but sophisticated systems of slavery, within which there are almost nothing but various kinds of controlled opposition groups, that almost everyone takes for granted, without thinking critically about that!
I am interested in real, radical revolution, which would require real opposition that was not controlled by the ruling classes, but rather, had the real potential to become some new kind of ruling classes. Of course, at the present time that appears practically impossible, since the majority of people have been reduced to political idiots, who have been brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, to the degree that most people do not want to learn any of the more radical truths about human realities, but rather, greatly prefer to continue to believe in the bullshit which they have been conditioned to believe in, for generation after generation. Therefore, the current systems are matching bookends of the ruling classes and the people that they rule over, which would both have to be changed together, in order for any changes to be implemented.
The real resolutions of our problems will surely require "solutions" that emerge from events going out of human control. The human artificial selection systems now are so totally based on bullshit, that they have become too terminally sick and insane. Therefore, the back-up systems of natural selection will have to force changes, in ways beyond the power of the current ruling classes to control, which consequences might open up future opportunities for some new kind of ruling classes to emerge ... IF enough technological civilization survives through those trials and tribulations to make that possible then ???
"Terrorism" is the modern day equivalent of the witch hunts of old. There is nothing new under the sun....
One other thing...these numbers are complete BS. There were 3000 fatal attacks on 9-11 alone. Of course GW is a truther nut so I doubt that he counted those!
I am not a GW fan at all, but in all due respect, I think he WOULD call it a terrorist attack. He would just identify another group as the real terrorists. I profoundly disagree, but there is no doubt he considers 9/11 a terrorist act in my view.
"The terror threat is greatly exaggerated."
Unless you are the one getting your effing head sawn off. Howza 'bout a graph of terror events in the middle east. How much ya wanna bet that they have skyrocketed.
Quite a few are not cosidered terrorist attacks but are labeled "workplace violence". Dont wanna offend anyone by calling it what it is, gotta be pc.
Ummmm:
Politicians and Media Rush To Issue Tributes To King That Led The World
In Beheadings, Whipped Bloggers For Criticism & Banned Women From
Driving
I never claimed that the US was either intelligent or ever looked out for their citizens' best interest!
"terrorism" is a wide open growth industry=with TRILLIONS of dollars to be made
once again, more evidence the bottom half of the class runs the world. it is funny to hear the likes of kissinger complain about public access to info that used to be secret only because the media channels blocked the dessimination of the news. it might be a problem in europe but hardly anyone in the usa pays attention to news and most that do can't understand what they hear and read because they don't know anything to have a perspective on what they are hearing. you could never convince most people in the usa there is no terror. this is suppose to be a fairly informed forum but there is all sorts of plain old ignorance from otherwise decent people.
no, this info is worthless except for those of us who like reality. there are too few of us to make a difference in any more than fleeting interest. having said that, i admit to succumbing to the allure of a flattering woman, sometimes regardless of whether she is as flatterable to me.
What I don't get is what is it about the apparent fascination Arab terrorists have with airplanes?
They don't highjack trains, buses, or put bombs on anything else. It's always airliners. lol
McVeigh used a Ryder truck at least.
Van parked in the street of downtown anywhere. Boom, one building loses 1/3 of its structure, the one across the street not a window out. Does that make sense to you? oh forgot, lol
gw's.
same ol story.
Yep...in 1969 the terrorists had domestic names like Ayers...now those fuckers run the WH
If you look at the effect of carnage created by the last two presidents, I think the world is now a lot less safe than it was in 1970-2001. Also globally; in 1970, as an American, I could travel to Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, Detroit, and Kenya just to name a few places that I will not go today.
Governments are the ones making the world less safe - the US government in particular. The end of the COld War was a real shock to the power establishment. OMG...... NO ENEMY1?!/1 What will we do?
Got to keep the 'never-ending war' meme going. What was the name of the study/white paper that said that?
The threat of war is NEEDED for government to keep CONTROL of people.
There is no such thing as terrorism. There is only murder, destruction of property and etc. Creating terror is the motivation, but not the crime itself.
"The terror threat is greatly exaggerated."
Considering that the people that control the people that control the government of the USA, which is by far the biggest terrorist organization in the world, are collectively a group of trillionaire mass murderers, who are seriously endeavouring to consolidate their global hegemony over the monetary systems that control the economy, which controls people, it is practically impossible to exaggerate that "terror threat."
goneYonder is correct that "terror" is an emotion, and "creating terror is the motivation."
The physical crimes are "murder, destruction of property, and etc.," which are motivated by plans to control the world. The means to do so are to back up deceits with destruction, in order to enforce frauds, such as the tactics of terrorist attacks, which have primarily been false flag attacks, designed to become self-fulfilling prophesies, which have been extremely successful.
All of human history has been a grand conspiracy of backing up lies with violence, in order to make and maintain social pyramid systems of power. The fundamentals have always been the principles and methods of organized crime, in which context "terrorism" has always been a significant tactic, and false flag "terrorist" attacks one of the most symbolically significant manifestations of the basic FACTS:
Human realities are systems of lies operating robberies, which are in some dynamic equilibria. Since the global social pyramid systems ARE getting bigger and steeper, the overall situation is getting worse, faster. After one recognizes that the ruling classes are the most significant terrorists, and the social pyramid systems that they made and maintained are based on integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, it is apparent that there has been NO decrease in "terror attacks."
Considering that governments are the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, those established systems are continuing to automatically drive the overall "terror attacks" to increase at an exponential rate, the same as those always were throughout human history. The established systems are getting more and more unbalanced, as demonstrated the by ways that smaller percentages of the population "own" relatively more and more.
All private property is based on backing up claims with coercions, in which context money is the most abstract form of that, since money is measurement backed by murder. "Ownership" is based on being able to back up lies with violence. The "ownership" of the planet's natural resources and productive capacities is being concentrated into relatively smaller groups of ruling classes, while all of that is based on applications of the principles and methods of organized crime, such as "creating terror" through acts of "murder, destruction of property, etc.."
The deeper problems are due to the biggest bullies' bullshit view of the world being expressed through all the dominant natural languages, as well as the dominant philosophy of science, which deliberately expresses everything in the most backward ways possible. Human beings and human civilizations operate as entropic pumps of energy flow, which are misrepresented to the maximum degree possible by inverting the concept of entropy, by inserting an arbitrary minus sign into the entropy equations of thermodynamics and information theory. By those means, the systems of lies and robbery are presented as having relative positive values, rather than relative negative values.
I REPEAT, all private property is based on the ways that human beings necessarily operate through systems of organized lies and robberies. That is symbolized by money being measurement backed by murder. There is practically nothing but systems of organized crime and their controlled opposition. The ruling classes are the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals, who use terrorism, and especially false flag attack terrorism, to advance their agenda of increasing the amount of overall debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits.
In the short to medium term, the ruling classes have been extremely successful in building social pyramid systems based on backing up lies with violence, to the degree that those have become integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, by which means the political economy is based on enforced frauds, that have enabled a tiny minority of the population to assert that they "own" about half the planet, while that ratio constantly increases.
One of the sources of the social successes of the ruling classes is the degree to which their bullshit language dominates almost everything, especially the controlled opposition groups, which continue to use the same false fundamental dichotomies, and related impossible ideals, which actually cause the opposite to happen in the real world. That opposition is controlled because the languages that they use, and the concepts that they tend to take for granted, were those originally promoted by the ruling classes, as ways to enable professional liars and immaculate hypocrites to operate their systems of lies backed by violence, while presenting that situation in almost perfectly backward ways, thus resulting in us living in a Bizarro Mirror World, or Wonderland Matrix.
In my view, every time that the police enforce legalized lies with legalized violence, they are engaging in a terrorist attack. The deeper problem is that since human realities are always necessarily systems of organized lies operating robberies, because human realities are always operating as entropic pumps of energy, the FACTS that we understand the concept of entropy backward means that we understand everything backward. I REPEAT: money is measurement backed by murder, because all private property is based on backing up claims with coercions, all of which are systems of lies backed by violence, or enforced frauds.
It is NOT possible to stop that from being the case, due to the ways that human beings necessarily perceive the world, whereby subtracting parts from the whole necessarily results in there being robbery of resources across the boundaries which define those subtracted parts. However, it is theoretically possible to develop better dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies operating robberies. Such a better balancing of the rates of social robberies, and their related impacts upon the natural environment, are theoretically possible, but if and only if enough people could change the ways that they perceive politics in order to understand that, as citizens, they are members of organized crime gangs, which are their governments, which are currently being effectively controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, which have successfully brainwashed the vast majority of people to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories.
There are no fundamental dichotomies between people. They ALL operate through systems of organized lies and robberies. Those who do that the best are perceived as the most wealthy and therefore politically powerful people. There is nothing else than organized crime, and controlled opposition, which systems have become extremely unbalanced due to the degree to which the established organized crime gangs have become sufficiently successful so that there are practically nothing but controlled opposition groups who appear to resist them, but actually end up promoting the same basic bullshit that the bullies do.
The established systems of organized crime and controlled opposition, operating through social pyramid systems, are automatically becoming more unbalanced every day, as demonstrated by the ways that tiny minorities are able to assert that they "own" more and more, while the vast majority are being increasingly dispossessed by the established systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. In that context, it is ridiculous to assert that there was ever a time in the past when there was more terrorist attacks than there are now.
Rather, in fact, the world is automatically becoming more and more seriously unbalanced, due to the degree that the established systems are able to operate as runaway terrorist organizations, routinely getting away with one false flag terrorist attack after another. In my view, in order to better resolve that situation would take enough people understanding that human beings necessarily operate as entropic pumps of energy, or systems of organized lies and robbery, which realities have been deliberately misrepresented, and so misunderstood in ways which are as backward as possible.
All private property is based on backing up lies with violence. All money is based on backing up measurement with murder. Therefore, all private property, and the money that is measured with, have relative negative values, NOT relative positive values. We could never stop human beings from operating as entropic pumps of energy flows, however, we could better understand that we have mistakenly understood that in the most backward ways possible, because the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories have dominated the languages that we use, and the ways that we think.
As long as we continue to live in a Bizarro Mirror World, or Wonderland Matrix, where everything appears backwards and absurd, because we fail to understand how and why governments are necessarily the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, then it will continue to be impossible to develop better dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies and robberies. Rather, as long as we continue to perceive the world in almost perfectly backward ways, we will continue to behave absurdly, causing our problems to continue to get worse, faster, at exponentially accelerating rates!
Only a superficial, and grossly mistaken, definition of "terror attacks" could possibly be used to support the view that the rates of those have decreased since the 1970s. IN FACT, the established systems of legalized lies backed by legalized violence have continued to get more unbalanced at an exponentially accelerating rate since the 1970s. For example, the total debts in the USA have been on a nearly perfect match to an exponential growth curve since 1971. Hence, those systems of debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits, have been doubling and doubling throughout the decades from the 1970s to now!
The article above is using statistics whose labels take too much for granted the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, regarding the definition of terrorism. This kind of article continues to rely too much on the same old false fundamental dichotomies, (and the related impossible ideals). One only has to look at how big and powerful an organization is to perceive the degree to which that is based on systems of lies and violence, which have operated through robbery, and symbolic robberies, in the forms of enforced frauds, to perceive the degree to which those were successful applications of the methods of organized crime, including terrorism.
When one does that, it is clear that those are still increasing at an exponential rate, and so, becoming more severely unbalanced every day, due to the degree that the successes of those methods have resulted in there being practically nothing but controlled opposition to resist them, in ways which continue to backfire badly, because those controlled opposition groups continue to think about those political problems in ways which are as utterly backward and absurd as they could possibly be!
Parade of LiesWhat was the middle part?
He lost me after "Considering".
I'm sorry, I just don't remember the 450 terrorist attacks in the US in 1970 or 150 in 1975, unless you consider the Anti-War demonstrators terrorist. Just who were these people?
The 1970's were a pretty active period for terrorists, foreign and domestic. Generally, they failed to kill people in large numbers. A lot of their attacks were against property and conducted in a way to avoid casualties. Many others were aimed a specific individuals or specifically identifiable groups (Isreali atheletes at the Olympics, British soldiers in Northern Ireland, a federal judge, etc) The Basques would build and place car bombs, but call in the threat to have authorities evacuate the area. Then everyone would sit around at a safe distance and watch and wait for the car to explode and have a great time. Kind of a prequel to Mythbusters. Mass casualty attacks on people going about their daily business was not really a thing back then. Today, terrorist are generally seeking mass casualty effects, which is the significant difference.
I just don't remember the 450 terrorist attacks in the US in 1970 or 150 in 1975
I can't vouche for the numbers, but there was a LOT more turmoil then than now. That I remember. A lot of shit in Canada too.
Now there's just more fear.
there was a rash of plane hijackings in the 60s and 70s mostly to cuba and, of course the db cooper case. funny how these real hijackings never rose to more urgency than metal detectors
Draft card burners and black activists.
I believe that had a terrorist cell at Kent State that was dealt with in 1970.
So ... the loss of privacy, sacrificed freedoms, ripped away protections, and the end of due-process in the interim ... has worked?
Far out man!! Gawd Bless 'merhika!
Coming to a continent near you Element ;-)
Here's a good one:
"In October 2001, Brian Hagen and Vernon Williams were flying a plane when they deviated from their path and began to head over Marion County and toward the Crystal River Power Plant. The pilot would not respond to authorities."(Edit: I wonder why he wouldn't respond?) "Instead, someone made threats, but authorities could not determine if the transmission came from the pilot." (Edit: So clearly a threat against some unstated thing or person by someone unknown, First Class investigative work right there!) "Moments later, two F-16s were side by side with the airplane. “Land or you will be forced to land,” the F-16 pilots stated." (Edit: Clearly a Marion County Sheriff F-16 Attack Squadron is called for...lol) "It was never proven if they had made the threats against the power plant, (Edit: Yeah we got that part) "but they were in possession of 65 pounds of marijuana when the plane was grounded in Ocala." (Edit: So thats why he didn't respond.)
So two amatuer entrepreneurs trying to make a few bucks, who didn't hug the tree tops as they should have, shaggin ass for the coast, is "terrizism!!!".
Got it.
http://www.ocalapost.com/mcso-monumental-change-within-the-sheriffs-office/