PRAGMATIC THURSDAY!!
Spy-Bait Edition!
In honor of the new U.S. plan to perform sweeping dataveillence on seemingly all websites (including this one, and any that you might have) I devote todays questions to the brave men and women of the NSA, FBI, and CIA, protecting us from freedom-haters like the ACLU.
1. Would terrorists be able to non-violently destroy the U.S. economy with a few well-placed trucks chock-full of electro-magnets parked around the NY Stock Exchange? As I understand it, somebody tried that once, but that might have just been in a Dan Brown book I read. More importantly, could such an act truly be considered "terror," what with it's essential non-violent nature, or does terror now include any attempts to change a current system of power?
posted by Pascals Bookie @ 12:21 PM
1 Comments:
As I understand it, terrorism's distinguishing feature is intent to instill fear, and as such I would classify taking out the NYSE with an EMP as terrorism. The aim would presumably be to instill fear in the American economy and shatter people's sense of (financial) security.
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