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MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
1. "Nutballs with delusions of grandeur" is probably a more accurate description.
Sun Jan 11, 2015, 09:12 AM
Jan 2015

So naturally nobody is going to call them that.

They were France's version of the Tsarnaevs.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. The media is trying to import fear from France to America, it is what they always do.
Sun Jan 11, 2015, 09:26 AM
Jan 2015

I personally think it is a criminal act for media to quote unnamed sources, in his case one source, to speculate about further terror attacks..that is not journalism, that is pure fear mongering for the sake of fear mongering and it is disgusting.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
4. No, no there are sleeper cells, any moment now, be afraid, be very afraid....it is like a mantra.
Sun Jan 11, 2015, 09:44 AM
Jan 2015

You know who is not afraid and marching in the streets for peace and tolerance...French citizens.

This is counter to the entire mass media meme of perpetual doom and gloom and disaster just around the next corner. It drives them mad, so they clutch to what they always clutch to.....making shit up to counter the calm.

Remember Fearbola, that was thier annual high point?

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
6. Wonder what they will do to distract as a million French citizens March in the streets to tell the
Sun Jan 11, 2015, 10:01 AM
Jan 2015

American media to fuck off and stick to fear mongering in their own country.



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PCIntern

(25,558 posts)
7. But…they WEREN'T a sleeper cell.
Sun Jan 11, 2015, 10:14 AM
Jan 2015

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everyone knew who they were. Chuckie hasn't been watching enough movies: a sleeper cell is one where no one in the cell shows any loyalty to their cause publicly for years and years. These guys were on watch lists for crying out loud. And no-fly lists. Someone should send Toad a DVD of No Way Out with that non-actor Costner.

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