Why is the US so paranoid?

RandomName2

A few days ago an autistic 9 year old was charged with a felony for writing "bone thrat" on a bathroom wall in his school. He had meant "bomb threat" - and the elementary school were so hypersensitive to possible bombings that they actually not only understood this but immediately evacuated the school and called the police. Consequently the boy was charged with terrorism.

While the Upton Sherif seems to have been keen to make an example of the boy, the felony was thankfully reduced to a "note of apology" by the Upton county court due to the parents going public on the matter. You know what's funny? The boy had gotten the idea by seeing another school having an evacuation due to another bomb threat a week before.

How many bombings have there been in the US since.. I dunno.. 1970?

About 22, in total.

So about as many as have happened in one day in Northern Ireland (e.g. Bloody Friday).

What do you think would happen if someone wrote "bone thrat" in a lavatory in Belfast? Mass evacuation? Panic? Hysteria?

Why is the US so damn paranoid?

Desolation Of Smug

Because of the clever. It's also why they are so slim and hate guns. Brains to burn.

Hermy

RandomName2 wrote: »

Why is the US so damn paranoid?

Much easier to control the masses through fear I suppose.
Back in the day it was the commies - now it's muslims.
Tomorrow they'll think of something else.
But they seem to be in no hurry to stop fighting.

kneemos

God damn Ruskies.

Seriously,cold war,drills for nuclear war,bunkers and sith.

SEPT 23 1989

poor kid

Boring username

A brief search reveals a slightly more realistic figure of 2,381 terror related incidents in the U.S.A. between 1970 and 2013. Figures courtesy of the global terrorism database:

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?start_yearonly=1970&end_yearonly=2013&start_year=&start_month=&start_day=&end_year=&end_month=&end_day=&country=217&asmSelect1=&dtp2=all&success=yes&casualties_type=b&casualties_max=

Kermit.de.frog

They are paranoid because they are the target for everyone for the crime of being the most powerful country in the world.

c_man

Why is the US so paranoid?

They smoke too much.

Or not enough.

kneemos

Responding to graffiti on a toilet wall is beyond paranoid,probably hysterical or something.

Hermy

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

They are paranoid because they are the target for everyone for the crime of being the most powerful country in the world.

Perhaps more to do with abuse of power rather than simply power alone.

Sheep Lover

They have them damn Mehecans at the border with their tequila and sombreros and hot women.

Fcuk it, why can't we have a border with Meheeco

Timberrrrrrrr

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

They are paranoid because they are the target for everyone for the crime of being the most powerful country in the world.

Did you wave the stars and stripes and have a bald eagle on you shoulder as you hit the submit button?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Money.

No one buys weapons or signs defense threaties when theres nothing to be scared of.

Yamanoto

RandomName2 wrote: »

What do you think would happen if someone wrote "bone thrat" in a lavatory in Belfast?

It'd be construed as a romantic overture in Ulster-Scots, the language of love.

Antar Bolaeisk

Think they're bad at home, you should see them abroad, you'd swear the entire world was out to kidnap them.

The_Valeyard

Sheep Lover wrote: »

They have them damn Mehecans at the border with their tequila and sombreros and hot women.

Fcuk it, why can't we have a border with Meheeco

1) Geography, continental drift.

2) If Mexico and Ireland were next to each other, no work would get done, be all out relaxing and drinking cocktails!

My name is URL

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

They are paranoid because they are the target for everyone for the crime of being the most powerful country in the world.

Aye... all those 7 year old kids scrawling words on walls and making gun shapes out of poptarts are real threats to the world's most powerful country :rolleyes:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/boy-suspended-for-chewing-breakfast-pastry-into-a-gun-shape-will-get-hearing/2013/09/13/8326c878-1bf6-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story.html

It's no wonder 10% of all kids are medicated in the US with dip****s like that in charge

anncoates

Desolation Of Smug wrote: »

Because of the clever. It's also why they are so slim and hate guns. Brains to burn.

Thank God we live in Ireland, which is teeming with slim, compassionate intellectuals.

chopperbyrne

I'd be more worried if the school wasn't evacuated after the hint of a bomb threat.

Tugboats

I wonder in there an American based message board that talks about Ireland all day? Do we latch onto them and talk about them everyday to pretend that we are relevant? Strange behaviour whatever the reasons....

NotCominBack

Could he not just say bone thrat was his favourite rapper?

seenitall

If I lived in the US, I'd be paranoid too.

cnocbui

chopperbyrne wrote: »

I'd be more worried if the school wasn't evacuated after the hint of a bomb threat.

I know a country where you would fit right in.

If you really want an idea of how Paranoid the US is, write down a list of every armed organisation they have. The same list could also be used to explain why their national debt is so immense.

Kelly06

Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't all out to get you!

Cienciano

Boring username wrote: »

A brief search reveals a slightly more realistic figure of 2,381 terror related incidents in the U.S.A. between 1970 and 2013. Figures courtesy of the global terrorism database:

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?start_yearonly=1970&end_yearonly=2013&start_year=&start_month=&start_day=&end_year=&end_month=&end_day=&country=217&asmSelect1=&dtp2=all&success=yes&casualties_type=b&casualties_max=

Considering the kid in the op was charged with terrorism, I wouldn't take all those incidents too serious

Desolation Of Smug

anncoates wrote: »

Thank God we live in Ireland, which is teeming with slim, compassionate intellectuals.

My bit of it is. There's one or two next door. They don't talk to my sort though.

shruikan2553

Cienciano wrote: »

Considering the kid in the op was charged with terrorism, I wouldn't take all those incidents too serious

Probably a beach bar in Hawaii called Aloha Snackbar on the list.

AllGunsBlazing

They should make him cover the entire wall with the same slogan - but this time with proper spelling. Like in 'Life of Brian'.

Egginacup

Tugboats wrote: »

I wonder in there an American based message board that talks about Ireland all day? Do we latch onto them and talk about them everyday to pretend that we are relevant? Strange behaviour whatever the reasons....

Nah, they wouldn't even know or care where other places are.
Only Americans who take daddy's credit card and "do" Europe are punching back and still they get employed despite saying "I COULD care less" or some other such genius.

RobYourBuilder

Tugboats wrote: »

I wonder in there an American based message board that talks about Ireland all day? Do we latch onto them and talk about them everyday to pretend that we are relevant? Strange behaviour whatever the reasons....

Check out IrishCentral or any other Irish American themed forum.

RobYourBuilder

The Ukranian army are now 'pro American troops' according to CNN. The majority of them are incapible of looking at the rest of the world without looking at it through an American prism.

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