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[Steve Thompson]

--- Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Whaddya know. Thompson said something that didn't make me want to beat
> him to death...

Too bad for you that I cannot say the same about what you write.
 
> > I have a different threat model.
>
> I've reached more or less the same conclusion. Or at least, incompetence
> may 
> not be deliberate per se, but the byproduct of a system that needs to
> appear 
> to care but is otherwise silently incented not to. Checking bags in the
> NYC 
> transit system is the ultimate example of this: Completely, absolutely 
> pointless in the face of a determined foe. (Meanwhile, of course,
> there's 
> all sorts of state shennanegins that are possible through such an 
> arrangement.)

No fucking shit.  Thanks for pointing this out to me.
 
> The obvious question is how much 9/11/01 is an example of this. For me,
> the 
> conspiracy theories just don't quite add up (close though) but a
> moderately 
> sharpened Occam's razor leads one to believe that some 'deliberate'
> holes 
> were left open, which bin Laden, et al exploited. (I actually still
> believe 
> that Bush didn't expect that level of damage, however.)

I don't know Bush, personally, and so I feel that it would be improper to
suggest that his unspoken cost-benefit analysis resulted in a particular
set of actions.
 
> As for the integrity of the money supply, I must succumb to temptation
> and 
> question whether the Stalinst model of a demand economy (servicing an 
> endless war on terror) hasn't been looked at by folks such as Wolfowitz,
> Cheney and so on.

Suckkumb all you want.


Regards,

Steve



	

	
		
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