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I think giving up racial profiling and scrutinizing everyone equally would be the best (Original Post) NNN0LHI Jul 2012 OP
This wasn't a terrorist act, mainly because it would frighten quinnox Jul 2012 #1
 

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1. This wasn't a terrorist act, mainly because it would frighten
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 10:50 PM
Jul 2012

Americans if they called it terrorism, and maybe the movie and entertainment industry would lose a lot of money on account of Americans being scared to go to theaters. No wonder the officials were so quick to say it had nothing to do with terror, despite the FBI giving a classified warning about movie theaters being terrorist targets just a couple months ago.

Plus, it is too confusing to Americans, when they think of "terrorist", the typical American thinks of muslims or other "foreign" people, not white native USA born red-blooded American men.

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