How very simple minded of you. You act as if no attacks are foiled because of law enforcement. You are mistaken, because the mere presence of law enforcement dissuades some terrorists.

How long do I indulge this ignorance? There would be no airport. And good luck moving out of North Korea. I’m from England however, and to hear you tell it, we’ve got more freedoms than you do. I went for a walk in the park today, at no point did I feel the itch of my rights being violated. You paint a pretty grim…

How the hell do the cops know if they dont investigate it? Do you think every street cop is an explosives expert? Are you an explosives expert that could look at a truck with gas tanks and know for sure it isnt dangerous? You second guessers are the worst. If it was a bomb and the cops hadnt cleared the area, it would…

All I have to say is, see what happens to you if they suddenly disappeared. There are countries where you’d be executed for giving anything but praise to the government, so frankly I don’t give a shit what you think.

While your are correct that they are essentially designed to burn oil, I think that that doesn’t change the fact that it is still a “bad thing”. Who wants to have to worry about that crap all the time. Most people can’t even keep up on their tire rotations and oil changes with a conventional engine, let alone checking…

Easy to say now. I bet a simple Ryder van parked next to a federal building in Oklahoma back in 1995 seemed liked nothing out of the ordinary either.

Celebrating a foiled attack in public is a bad idea. It’s not what they’re doing in Europe and it’s not what they would do in America either. And no, the TSA are not the same as the police department, not even close. Let me put it this way though, would you have the official threat level lowered, and the police put on…

What the hell do the TSA have to do with an attack on times square?

Right, you have no credibility if you want to blame me for something that came from someone of my same nationality. Your country gave birth to the KKK, the westboro baptist church, and school shootings, unless you’d like me to blame you for that, fuck off.

The cops did eventually find the driver, 28-year-old Ryan Frasier, and hit him with 10 summonses.

How would you know how many terrorist plots have been stopped if they haven’t happened? Have you actually looked into it? I’m from London, here, at least 8 plots have been successfully foiled. In Paris, they stopped one recently too. I’d be surprised if none at all had been stopped in the entirety of the United…

gtfo

Glad this turned out to be a false alarm, but this had all the makings of a real threat:

Really? Could he? As someone who has been through formal training on identifying IEDs, I would love to see you point out which ones are threats and which ones aren’t. I bet the people in Oklahoma City didn’t think a normal looking rental box truck looked like a threat either. I’m glad someone made the call. Better to…

Did they not stop the previous (real) Times Square attempt?

NYPD should have towed the truck to Flushing, for shits and giggles.

They’ve probably been on continuous alert for potential truck bombs there, since the previous attempt 6 years ago.

What waste of tax dollars? The cops are paid anyway, regardless of what they do that day. They’d have been paid the same to stop kids from going into an r rated movie on a slow day. Be thankful that the guys that will some day very soon mean the difference between an attack happening or not are on high alert.

Nah, I don’t disagree with that. These days, it’s good to know that the authorities are on high alert. Sure we’ve all seen a shitty truck before, but you’d be perplexed if you found a barn find Prius in the middle of the desert. Times Square is an unusual place for such a sighting.

A knife? So you’re ok with a potential victim stabbing her assailant, but not shooting him? I’m lost.