It’s official, the FBI has jumped the shark

6 Responses to It’s official, the FBI has jumped the shark

1. Mollbot says:

   February 14, 2012 at 2:58 pm

   Ever read “Dykstra’s War,” by Jeffrey Kooistra? Belter War of Independence, yeah! I knew I loved the book when, in the first chapter, the Belters nuke California 3 times from orbit.

   Only way to be sure.
2. AnejoDave says:

   February 14, 2012 at 8:40 pm

   I quit saying I want off this rock. I LIKE it here. They can get off.
3. Armageddon Rex says:

   February 15, 2012 at 8:22 pm

   I call Bull$hit on the source in the link above. I work with some Fed types very concerned with counter-terrorism. They’re very interested in money transactions of every type to or from other countries by individiuals & small businesses unless it’s remittances to Mexico. I swear, they could fund every Islamic extremist group in the world off 5% of the funds remitted to Mexico by Illegal Al…. excuse me, undocumented Democrat vot…. ,excuse me again, our countrymen on the path to citizenship!
   The people jumping the shark are Boing Boing and the folks who spread silly rumors like this.
   If you want to attract Fed attention, make a large cash purchase of ammunition or fertilizer, or try to buy a light plane or heavy construction / demolition equipment in cash without being a well known reputable business owner in a suitable industry.
4. Mad Rocket Scientist says:

   February 15, 2012 at 9:16 pm

   Funny, these look pretty official (you have to dig back a few links):
   http://publicintelligence.net/fbi-suspicious-activity-reporting-flyers/

   The problem is that there are soooooo many “suspicious indicators” that it is impossible for any common citizen to be able to use any of this crap. No one item is an indicator, you need a whole pattern of multiple, related indicators to coalesce (usually with the aid of data mining) before you might, MIGHT have an actual terrorist. Thus, all these flyers do is serve to spook the public & fuel fears.
5. Armageddon Rex says:

   February 16, 2012 at 8:11 pm

   Most of these BS blatherings were created and circulated by regional joint centers of one flavor or another, not the FBI mother ship. These are mostly collections of too many bored, local bubba cops getting together with a couple fibbies, and / or ICE and BATFE, etc. folks thrown in for good measure.
   This is yet another example, along with the militarization of local P.D.s and Sheriff’s Departments, of more wasted good Federal money spent after bad. Too many poorly or mistrained cops are warming these “Intelligence” center chairs with excessive budgets and access to way more information and resources than they can handle. They’ve watched far too many episodes of 24 and want to play at being secret agent man, or at least being “an analyst”, with very little formal training or experience in intelligence analysis at all, with the possible exception of a handful of those dastardly, suspect, returning veterans from OEF & OIF. Many of the documents coming out of these joint centers are laughable, especially among the law enforcement community. It was from one of these joint centers that the infamous “recently returned or discharged military veterans are a serious potential threat” pile of excrement plopped. I have several friends who are full time peace officers and military reservists. They were highly entertained I can tell you!
   The counter terror task forces in Hell A, and especially New York sneer at these things when they’re finished laughing. I especially liked: “Suspicious communications using VOIP or communicating through a PC game”. In which case the teenaged children of 95% of U.S. peace officers are potential terrorist.
   Don’t take this hogwash seriously, I know most of the law enforcement community doesn’t!

   Hugs ‘n’ kisses!

   Armageddon Rex
   ‘…still bitter, and clinging to my guns!’
6. Kristopher says:

   February 19, 2012 at 5:28 pm

   The original flyer was one circulated to try to catch internet jihaddis working out of internet cafes …

   The point wasn’t to gig people for paying cash for coffee.

   The source Boingboing used is a known nutter website, one that specializes in flying off handles at nothing.

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