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zappaman

(20,605 posts)
7. Or perhaps you could re-enlist?
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 01:00 AM
Sep 2014

Seems to me he explained why he couldn't re-enlist.
What's your excuse and when did you serve?

No doubt you will be enlisting to protect us, yes FrodosPet? Scootaloo Sep 2014 #1
I'm afraid I can't. Ineligible (unless you can cover my back surgery and have some connections) FrodosPet Sep 2014 #2
well, don't be *too* terrified about using the subway. delrem Sep 2014 #3
I plan on taking an Amtrak to Chicago, maybe in early December, maybe next year FrodosPet Sep 2014 #12
Oh, that's okay. I'm sure that you can go join up with the "rebels" Scootaloo Sep 2014 #4
Or perhaps you could re-enlist? zappaman Sep 2014 #7
I'm not the one squawking about how terrified we all need to be Scootaloo Sep 2014 #28
You're still more likely to have a car accident on the way to or from the station. Electric Monk Sep 2014 #5
You are absolutely right! The chances of ME personally dying from terrorism are pretty small FrodosPet Sep 2014 #13
This is a detailed explanation of what I'm terrified of. Autumn Sep 2014 #48
No Scaremongering please bobduca Sep 2014 #6
I guess all the DUers laughing at these threats zappaman Sep 2014 #8
Please point to previous replies that are laughing it off. Electric Monk Sep 2014 #9
I can't re-enlist FrodosPet Sep 2014 #15
I've seen posts ridiculing the notion that subways would be terrorist targets pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #16
Anywhere people congregate, or any bottleneck is a potential target. This isn't BreakingNews™. nt Electric Monk Sep 2014 #19
That's why the post is in GD, not LBN n/t FrodosPet Sep 2014 #21
Which makes it all the more WTF when some ridicule that pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #23
"Well, is everyone afraid of the subway threat, yet?" FrodosPet Sep 2014 #22
I don't think anyone doesn't understand that the subway TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2014 #47
Bill Maher had a point. JayhawkSD Sep 2014 #10
He also said the following FrodosPet Sep 2014 #18
Which does not negate the point that... JayhawkSD Sep 2014 #32
And he was 100% correct snooper2 Sep 2014 #33
Republicans have done more damage to train travel and public transportation than terrorists could... tenderfoot Sep 2014 #11
+ 1,000,000 grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #38
The fact that it's not that far fetched is why it's being used to scare you.. SomethingFishy Sep 2014 #14
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence FrodosPet Sep 2014 #17
You want to stop them? We have been killing terrorists for 11 years now. SomethingFishy Sep 2014 #20
The problem is not 11 years old. It is 1382 years old. FrodosPet Sep 2014 #24
My government wants me to be afraid of ISIL or ISIS. Nobel_Twaddle_III Sep 2014 #25
No, they want you to not have to be afraid of the Daesh FrodosPet Sep 2014 #27
If it's so damned easy, why have we spent a fucking trillion on homeland security? cali Sep 2014 #26
There are a lot of trains, so the threat *per person* is negligible. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #29
They ALL need to be dealt with FrodosPet Sep 2014 #30
it damned well is an either/or thing. cali Sep 2014 #34
No, you're wrong, because every proposed mitigation measure has a cost. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #40
Here's the thing FrodosPet 951-Riverside Sep 2014 #31
Attacking, even threatening to attack, electric powered public transit will get more people to burn KurtNYC Sep 2014 #35
35 times more likely to be killed by the police than in a terror incident-especially if you're black hobbit709 Sep 2014 #36
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm STILL not afraid of terrorists. Iggo Sep 2014 #37
"left wing American terrorists" ??? Jamastiene Sep 2014 #39
"no such animal" MohRokTah Sep 2014 #41
He was as far from left wing as they get. n/t Jamastiene Sep 2014 #43
Ted Kazinski was a left wing terrorist MohRokTah Sep 2014 #45
Based on what... that he didn't like technology. tenderfoot Sep 2014 #46
Read his manifesto, he was extreme left. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #49
The police and security presence in Chicago based public transport has been stepped up. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #42
Gosh, you're right. Let's all live in perpetual fear! RedCappedBandit Sep 2014 #44
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