Feds say they disrupted suicide bomb plot by worker at Wichita airport

Glen Campbell ... terrorist.

 

Well done.

 

Surely that would have been the last train to Stubbville

 

Outstanding 'dexter.

 

Holy fuck that was good.

 

My brother landed in Wichita at 11 a.m. that morning. On one hand, that's a bit eerie. On the other, the Feds seem to have been in on this from the get go, so there never was a real threat.

The Wichita airport can be decidedly sleepy, so it's probably a thousand times easier to sneak a bomb in there than a bigger city's airport.

 

Did he mention coffee as a motivation in his suicide note?

Did you read the article? That's where he worked, and had access.

 

That seems to be the Feds' M.O. in cases like this. I guess it makes a stronger case if they catch him "in the act," or lets them gather more intel on a potentially larger threat.
Generally, they learn of these plots early on in the planning stages and find a way to plant an agent as a key contact somewhere along the way -- either in the terrorist cell, the person who supplies the explosives, etc. They give the person inert explosives and let them go up to the point of pressing the button before making the arrest.

The goal is noble and understandable, but I'm amazed a hundred different civil liberties issues haven't been raised about the tactics. How much of it is coercion by the agents? Are these people ever given that little extra push to go through with it when they might otherwise step back? How much danger are the Feds putting the general public in by letting these desperate lunatics step up to the abyss?

 

Could we now seriously consider EXECUTION as a punishment for this sort of crime against one's own country? Life in prison (if that's what he gets for this) would be a mistake. Execute these people who get caught for and convicted.

 

Yes. Suicide bombers, school shooters and the like seem to value their corporeal selves so highly, execution would seem to be a powerful deterrent.

 

No one cares about civil liberties any longer. You need to start reading
the New York Times. Civil Liberties is so 20th century.