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Terrorist Awareness Quiz
Topic Started: Feb 11 2010, 09:01 AM (288 Views)
DragonLegend
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Are YOU qualified to spot terrorist threats? Take this short quiz and find out:

1. 12 men are huddled together whispering to each other. They are:
a- Terrorists
b- A football team about to get a 5-yard penalty
c- The Disciples killing time waiting for Jesus to get back from Starbucks with their morning coffee.

2. Someone sits at a workbench, alternately mumbling curses and prayers to himself as he sticks wires into high explosives. This is:
a- Terrorist activity
b- Just another day at Industrial Light & Magic
c- The ever-optimistic Wile E. Coyote

3. An angry, bearded man shakes his fists and ululates at the sky. He is:
a- A terrorist
b- Your Dad stepping on a nail
c- Al Gore giving a speech

4. A stray dog wanders up to you as you sit at an outdoor cafe. You should:
a- Suspect that terrorists have strapped explosives to it
b- Change tables - your shoes are both expensive and not drool-proof
c- Angrily send the dog back into the kitchen, complaining that you specifically ordered "well done".

5. You see a piece of unattended luggage at the airport. It's probably:
a- A terrorist's explosive device
b- A clue in some stupid race-around-the-world reality show
c- Odo doing undercover work

6. Middle-Eastern men are taking surreptitious camera-phone pictures near a national landmark. They are:
a- Gathering intelligence for a future terrorist attack
b- Just dorky tourists who are too cheap to buy a REAL camera
c- Gathering photos for later uploading to their hotnakedankles.com porn site

7. You open a package and notice a white, powdery substance. This is a case of:
a- A terrorist anthrax assault
b- The post office brutally mishandling your order of Enzyte
c- You forgetting to wash your hands after scattering lime over the shallow graves in your basement

Score as follows:

a - 1 point
b - 2 points
c - 3 points

Grading:

1-6 points: Either you suck at math or you skipped a question.

7-11 points: You're far too twitchy to be trusted with our national security. Lock yourself in a closet with a Louisville Slugger, ya big scaredy-cat!

12-16 points: Your finely-honed sense of danger is balanced with a generous dollop of common sense. America needs more people like you. An Army recruiter will be contacting you shortly.

17-21 points: Fictional characters? Dog-eating? Hiding bodies? You're a criminally insane psychotic freak. A danger to yourself and others. A Marine recruiter will be contacting you shortly.

22 or more points: CHEATER!

So... how did you do?

NOTE: Please be aware that scoring 22 or more points may cause you to be contacted by the DNC's "Get Out the Vote" committee.
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Neitzluber
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There have been zero victims of terrorism in the US since Obama took office.
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Fort Hood.

Underwear Bomber (no victims, but that was only because the passengers, not the government, took action).
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Lazurath
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I wouldn't really call Fort Hood a "terrorist attack," as it wasn't really politically-motivated. A massacre, yes, but he didn't really kill those people in the "name of Islam" or to gain any sort of ideological ground. He was obviously mentally unstable, and him being a Muslim to go and serve in a predominately-Muslim country must have triggered something
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Actually, Laz, he was religiously and politically motivated.

But, to you, evil (especially Islamic evil) doesn't exist; anyone who does something wrong is simply mentally unstable and it's an isolated incident.
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Lazurath
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DragonLegend
Feb 12 2010, 12:06 PM
But, to you, evil (especially Islamic evil) doesn't exist; anyone who does something wrong is simply mentally unstable and it's an isolated incident.

Please don't tell me what I do and don't believe.
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DragonLegend
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I'm pretty sure I know what moral relativism is.
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I do believe in evil, Dragon. Not universal evil, perhaps, but there are things that can get close too it. For example, Hitler. Hitler's Germany thought him great. He thought he was great. After discovering about the Holocaust, 99.99% of the world's population thought he was an evil mass-murderer. I think that's a good indication of what he was.

Do I think that 9/11 was just the result of some poor, misguided mentally-unstable Muslims? No, they were die-hard extremists (no pun intended) who's perverted idea about the world led them to plan and kill nearly 3,000 innocent Americans (many of them Muslim too) and who gained nothing in the process.

But, do I think that Fort Hood was a religiously-motivated terrorist attack? That he had planned it for years and years and was hoping of receiving 72 virgins when he was accepted by Allah? No, I think he was just so distressed to be sent to the Middle East that he took the liberty to express this distress by massacring .. how many was it? 13? 19? people at Fort Hood.
This by no means means I think it's the Army's and society's fault, he willingly joined the Army, and he knew that they were fighting a war, so if he didn't want to be sent to active duty, he should've left. I think he should be punished just as any other massacrists should, and by no means should he get any exceptions, but I disagree with the view that he did so to incite Terror in the American people.
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How can you have something close to universal evil? It's either evil, soundly and for all time, or it's not.
"Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution." -G. K. Chesterton
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Because there will always be people, for whatever sad reason, that somehow manage to believe that these universal evils are actually good.
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