h/t: National Terror Alert (see their news ticker in my sidebar)
Police evacuated the B.C. Ferries terminal at Tsawwassen
yesterday and arrested a 32-year-old foot-passenger who was overheard saying
that he was going to set off a bomb on the Spirit of Vancouver.
Bomb-sniffing dogs from the Delta police and RCMP swept
the terminal, but failed to locate any explosives. Ferry service resumed after a
brief delay.
It's the third time this year that B.C. Ferries has been
the target of a threat, and the company is threatening possible legal action in
the latest incident.
"When we have bomb threats like this, we take them all
very seriously," B.C. Ferries spokesman Mark Stefanson said. "If they turn out
to be hoaxes, then we may have to proceed with lawsuits, because people need to
realize that making threats is very serious and it causes major problems to the
travelling public."
(...)
"Obviously, any time there's a delay it can frustrate the
travelling public," Stefanson said. "Trying to be humorous, funny or just acting
stupid can result in serious consequences whether it's a hoax or
not."
I hope they sue the crap out of that stupid asshat. Really, pretending to be a terrorist isn't funny at all, plus such a prank could potentially get the prankster killed by enraged passengers who rightly conclude, in legal, legitimate, preemptive self-defensive thinking, that he's going to kill them.
On the other hand, it's also possible that actual terrorists are going around perpetuating behavior that can only be, most safely, interpreted as actual terrorism, even if they aren't actually planning to carry through... that time. Assuming that what appears most likely to be an impending deadly action by some kind of hostile(s) is a prank or a dry run is not an option. The prankster, like actual terrorists, can expect to be tackled and wrestled brutally into submission at the very, very least.
Remember those six Islamic clerics who, in an airport and then on a plane, deliberately exhibited a series of behaviors, which, taken together, appear consistent with that of actual Islamic terrorists? Well, it is believed that they were doing the same thing, to perpetuate a "get the Infidels to cry wolf" campaign against us so as to desensitize us and make us drop our guard out of prank/dry run fatigue in the long run.
No matter who it is, each and every one who dares to exhibit behavior that can only, for safety's sake, be interpreted as potentially deadly, must be treated accordingly. And if they cry "racial profiling", so be it. Just being/looking like a Muslim and/or Arab while behaving like a potential terrorist is still as wrong as when anyone else exhibits the same threatening behavior. And I look down with disdain on those who sue for "profiling, discrimination, etc." after being apprehended for threatening behavior. Surely Muslims and Arabs have greater self-esteem than that?
Like hell we're ever going to submissively look the other way when five Middle Eastern-looking men brandishing box cutters suddenly stand up simultaneously in a plane... nay, we're gonna roll immediately! We'll disarm them with extreme prejudice, of bloody course, and tie 'em up 'till Homeland Security or whoever comes to take 'em away to Gitmo or wherever. We will always be ready to fight... fast and ferociously... should anyone try to hijack our plane... like hell we'll worry for even a split second about later being hauled before the "human rights" kangaroo courts afterward... being alive and later fighting an illegitimate kangaroo court is better than being dead, after all. Is that so hard for the politically correct, brainless asshats and fascists of the Far Left to understand?
So I'd warn potential hoaxsters as well as actual terrorists, etc., that they will be placing themselves in potential grave danger if they choose to behave in a manner that causes the reasonable person to believe that their own lives are imminently endangered by that person.
And if they emerge from their stupid, dangerous act alive, as will be the case most often, if not always, then they can expect the full force of the law to fall upon them. Hopefully the justice system will be merciless in penalty application, as is needed to send a message to everyone that they will never, never get away with threatening people like that, that they'll pay dearly.
Let no court dare take away our right to self-defence.
Yes, powerful words I speak above, but we must take this issue seriously and send a message to potential hoaxsters, dry-runners and terrorists that we will not treat them leniently should they break the laws against such behavior. It's that serious.
By the way, I read in a law text once, that ignorance of the law isn't a defence.
