I can’t tell if you’re serious with the “pin this on Islamic radicals” part. In reality, it’s probably some anarchists-gone-wrong trying to make their point.

Yeah. Could be. But even if it is… why aren’t Islamic terrorists taking notes from these long-haired chaos-lovers?

I’ve always said that if they wanted to really strike terror in the U.S. people’s hearts, they’d simultaneously blow up things and strafe them with gunfire at malls, churches and Wal-Marts in Topeka, Des Moines and Orlando, or even smaller towns.

Yeah, exactly. Why aren’t they doing that?! I’m not sure if I should be worried or relieved that it hasn’t happened yet.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this one turns out to be a couple of kids with the Anarchist’s Cookbook.

Hell, Best Buy had to practically commit to funding homeless shelters before the Board of Supervisors would allow them to locate within the city limits.

As for the animal research clinic, the only one close is the string of Chiron offices near where I work in Emeryville across the bay – there isn’t a bike lane on the bay bridge and these losers can’t afford Bart fair so that is probably why they haven’t tried bombing over here. Besides, they leave that up to the Berkeley folks just down the road a bit. They have more experience with it anyway.

McVeigh, the Unabomber, and Rudolph are all homegrown wackos that would have been more than happy to kill innocents at Starbucks. There are plenty more where they came from.

Unfortunately, much expertise isn’t really necessary to create a device that is capable of major harm, as it has always been far easier to destroy than to create.

That said, I’d have to say that America, and the Bush administration’s actions in particular, have become very effective recruiting tools for the Islamic fundamentalists. Didn’t Osama bin Laden say that the great white Satan would invade and then occupy an oil-rick Islamic country. Then GWB, the great white idiot, goes and does exactly that.

I seriously doubt that any of the actions of the Bush Administration have actually don’t anything to make the security of the American people as a whole any better. In fact, with his actions, he has probably made the risks to the American people greater rather than lower.

I hesitate even bringing that up, but you can’t tell me they haven’t already thought of it.

And I tend to agree with Robert on this one, except I would’ve thought a Wal-Mart or an animal research clinic would’ve been more their cup of tea.