Comments on: Muslim man's motivational text to colleagues leads to terror probe

By: Nick Hayday

Nick Hayday — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:00 +0000

You mean like the white British guy who was going to “destroy America” and got sent straight back

By: Forkboy

Forkboy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:17:00 +0000

* Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs … *
BRB, doorbell.

By: Forkboy

Forkboy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:13:00 +0000

Or maybe he pissed off some coworker and that coworker decided to take some anonymous revenge ?

By: MrsBug

MrsBug — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:38:00 +0000

When they came for the sales managers, I said nothing, because I am not a sales manager.
when they came for the receptionists, I said nothing…

By: forzaq8

forzaq8 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:00 +0000

sending sms is nothing , try singing songs these days

Boom by snoop and Tbane ?

By: Jer_00

Jer_00 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:24:00 +0000

But this isn’t just about content, it’s also about context. Because do you really think that if the sales manager’s name had been “Larry Smith” anything remotely like this would have happened?

By: benher

benher — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:40:00 +0000

“was” being the operative word.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:49:00 +0000

Like when people first heard about the Echelon Project and started putting “bomb kill president white house allah” in their email signatures. Well, I know my mother did at least…

By: Justin Forposting

Justin Forposting — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:56:00 +0000

The terrorism/Muslim angle is just a ruse to cover up the new policy of rounding up sales managers. (a policy which I am in support of. Hey, I’m not a sales manager so why worry)

By: bardfinn

bardfinn — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:21:00 +0000

They should also understand that despite this, they should still have an expectation of privacy.

By: joeposts

joeposts — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:48:00 +0000

For anyone who doesn't pay attention to Canadian politics (I guess that would be 99.99% of the world, including Canadians) but is shocked at our government's violation of simple human decency in the name of 9/11, maybe take a peek at this Wikipedia entry sometime. Just like all the other civilized countries, we're embracing torture, assassination and bombings ... but hey, they did it first!

By: yeahyeahwhtever

yeahyeahwhtever — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:27:00 +0000

Once again: everybody needs to understand that all transmissions and transactions are filtered for particular content.

By: petsounds

petsounds — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:25:00 +0000

Harper is quite happy to grab the baton and run with it. There’s many to blame here, but in this case the Canadian government bears the brunt of it.

By: teapot

teapot — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:10:00 +0000

He wasn’t joking about anything though. Combat-styled language is commonly used in business… maybe the fools who decided this guy was a threat should either: learn the English language and its common uses (which they are seemingly ignorant of) or get someone with a grasp of English to add exceptions to their active filter for common business phraseology.

Off topic: Can we agree to capitalise “US” please? I frequently leave capitals off countries and companies I hate, but you can’t leave capitals off acronyms – especially when the combination of the letters form a word.

By: Anon_Mahna

Anon_Mahna — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:51:00 +0000

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/US_annexation_of_Canada

By: Brad Zimmerman

Brad Zimmerman — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:01:00 +0000

I’d agree with all of that except that the last bit has been going on for quite awhile …it just still somehow seemed that Canada was …Canada. Now I don’t know WTF it is. I wonder if any Canadians know?

By: p96

p96 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:51:00 +0000

Sounds like a plan, what’s your number?

By: bardfinn

bardfinn — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000

Oh good. Not flamed. I blame the us govt. for the original push to scapegoat Muslims.

By: bardfinn

bardfinn — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:26:00 +0000

And the Canadian government for following the us government’s lead.

Sigh I’m sure I’ve been flamed by now.

By: Shay Guy

Shay Guy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0000

Is it just because they’ve been posting these “don’t joke about X, we’ll take it seriously” warnings and they don’t want them to be invalid? Better a stupid policy than a policy you don’t follow through on? Is that it?

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:49:00 +0000

this was Canada, actually

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:47:00 +0000

Thanks to NDAA, next time this happens they’ll just take the guy out with a drone.

By: bardfinn

bardfinn — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:42:00 +0000

In other news, y’all black people betta be out of town befoah sundown, y’all wimmins betta git back in the kitchin fo i givs ya the back I mah hand, and bwah go cut me a switch.

Seriously fuck the us government.

By: scatterfingers

scatterfingers — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:34:00 +0000

Well, if he didn’t want to be a terrorist before, I bet he does now.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:21:00 +0000

I hope he wins all of it.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:11:00 +0000

Obviously he didn’t read the “Muslim’s guide to texting”.

TWM is the new DWB.

By: teapot

teapot — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:08:00 +0000

C’mon Canada… what the fuck happened to you? Go back 5 years and I would’ve happily lived there. Now your country looks like a backwater hellhole with shit internet and America’s pus-squirting dick in your mouth.

By: joeposts

joeposts — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:05:00 +0000

In related news, Harper has ok'd the use of information gained through torture. All Canada has to do is to find some lonely Afghan cab driver, remove his fingernails and get him to say the name "Saad Allami" and we wouldn't have to pay for this lawsuit.

By: Aloisius

Aloisius — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:02:00 +0000

So it is clear people are monitoring SMS. Maybe we should all text each other vaguely threatening/sarcastic messages about digging up corpses or blowing it out of the water. Be sure to include allah in there if you can. I’m sure any mention of that dude is sure to bring the feds down on you.

By: Marc45

Marc45 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

Obviously he didn’t read the “Muslim’s guide to texting”.
This business of arrest first, ask questions later makes me want to find another planet to live on.