FBI: Extremists seek school bus work

[jamesrage]

Has political correctness infested us to the point that FBI is forced to tell us there is nothing to worry about over extremist trying to drive school buses?

FBI: Extremists seek school bus work - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON - Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An
FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."

 

[Trajan Octavian Titus]

Ofcourse P.C. has infested the buraucracies of the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. **** just look at all the leftist shills in the state department.

 

[rathi]

What does this have to with political correctness? The FBI and homeland security stated that the foreign nationals driving school buses are NOT extremists. The advisory was just a bulletin for Law Enforcement to check to make sure that extremists don't get to drive school buses.

Your quotes misrepresent the article you posted. Here are the quotes that you missed.

But Homeland Security and the FBI "have no information indicating these individuals are involved in a terrorist plot against the homeland,

Kolko said the bulletin was sent merely as an educational tool to help local police identify and respond to any suspicious activity.

 

[Sammy2]

How freaking scary if you have children. If my kids' school bus driver gives me any doubts come next Sept, I'll drive them to and from school. I reserve the right to profile people who are in charge of my children when I am not around.

 

[Sammy2]

What does this have to with political correctness? The FBI and homeland security stated that the foreign nationals driving school buses are NOT extremists. The advisory was just a bulletin for Law Enforcement to check to make sure that extremists don't get to drive school buses.

Your quotes misrepresent the article you posted. Here are the quotes that you missed.

But Rathi, you have to understand that there was no advisory out for extremists taking flying lessons or boarding planes in order to hijack and crash those planes into buildings either. I guess now we are about "better safe than sorry".

I have yet to run into a foreign national school bus driver. I might live in an area where it just doesn't happen, I don't know?

No need to live in fear, but a heads up is better than nothing.

 

[rathi]

How freaking scary if you have children. If my kids' school bus driver gives me any doubts come next Sept, I'll drive them to and from school. I reserve the right to profile people who are in charge of my children when I am not around.

You are legally allowed to do that. However, consider this. From a statistical standpoint, you are most likely putting your kid at risk. A school bus is much more safe than a car in the event of an car accident. The risk of a car accident is far higher than the risk of a terrorist attack. If you run the numbers, you are increasing the chance that your kid will be injured.

But Rathi, you have to understand that there was no advisory out for extremists taking flying lessons or boarding planes in order to hijack and crash those planes into buildings either.

Actually there was. Its called the phoenix memo.

No need to live in fear, but a heads up is better than nothing.

I agree. My argument was that the article had been misreported by the poster, not that the advisory was a bad idea.

 

[jamesrage]

What does this have to with political correctness?

Probably because there is political pressure to not offend muslims who are offended at the idea that extremist Muslims can be terrorist.

The FBI and homeland security stated that the foreign nationals driving school buses are NOT extremists. The advisory was just a bulletin for Law Enforcement to check to make sure that extremists don't get to drive school buses.

Your quotes misrepresent the article you posted. Here are the quotes that you missed.

Then why should the FBI say anything at all to law enforcement if there is nothing to worry about?Because it seems kind of pointless to alert law enforcement if there is nothing to worry about.Don't worry parents Osama Bin Laden is driving your kids to school,I am sure he can be trusted to not behead the kids, blow up the bus with all the kids on it or use them as hostages.

 

[rathi]

Probably because there is political pressure to not offend muslims who are offended at the idea that extremist Muslims can be terrorist.

Perhaps, but their is no evidence that the statements of the FBI or homeland security were motivated by PC.

Then why should the FBI say anything at all to law enforcement if there is nothing to worry about?Because it seems kind of pointless to alert law enforcement if there is nothing to worry about.Don't worry parents Osama Bin Laden is driving your kids to school,I am sure he can be trusted to not behead the kids, blow up the bus with all the kids on it or use them as hostages

The bulletin was noting a possible avenue of attack and warning law enforcement to be on the look out. It was not a bulletin saying that such a plot had been discovered. Its the same way that nobody has tried to blow up nuclear powerplant yet, but we still sent out advisories that they might potentially be targets.