And They Would Have Gotten Away With It...
Published by BG on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 6:08 PM.The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » The plot at Fort Dix
Apparently, the plot was disrupted when the would-be killers videotaped a training session, and brought it to a store to have it burned onto to a DVD. The store clerk saw the video, called the FBI, and agents set up a sting operation, posing as arms dealers, to arrest the suspects.
Obviously, this is a great development and encouraging news. The law enforcement officials who were involved with the arrests, not to mention that store clerk, deserve the nation’s gratitude.
That said, there are a few angles to this story to consider.
Specifically, whether or not they should have kept this scene in the training video*:
Why do they always have the monkey bars? Does Fort Dix have a moat over which they were planning to grapple? Actually, kudos to those who handled this situation in the way these situations should be handled:
[T]oday’s success was due to intelligence gathering and law-enforcement efforts — the very techniques the Bush White House has consistently ridiculed as ineffective in counterterrorism. For that matter, as Steve M. noted, “[A]pparently no warrantless wiretapping led to these arrests, no torture of suspects in overseas prisons, nothing liberals have objected to in the Patriot Act. Remember that when you’re told that these arrests prove that we can’t trust liberals and Democrats.”
Like John Kerry said, terrorism is a law enforcement problem. Trying to throw the might of your military against non-state sponsored acts of destruction is a ludicrous notion. Equip law enforcement and intelligence with the abilities to do an effective, non-authoritarian job within the bounds of our civil rights. Another bomber contract awarded to Boeing ain't doing the same thing to help.
*The picture above is not from their training video, although the author is nearly positive there were monkey bars in their movie as well.
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