Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive

[Ken Brown]

Owen Lewis wrote:

> With all respect, there is a great difference.
> 
> For the last several years, the IRA has expertly used acts of 'terrorism' to
> pursue doggedly a political agenda. In this they have been largely
> successful, in part because they have been at pains to restrict their acts
> to grabbing large headlines and causing discomfiture with minimum risk to
> life.
> 
> The acts yesterday in NY, Washington and near Pittsburgh were purposefully
> designed to kill very large numbers of people. The final death toll may
> never be known with certainty but there is already reason to suppose that it
> will not be less then 50,000. This is any act of 'terrorism' but an act of
> war and the USA is now indeed at war though a declaration to that effect has
> yet to be made.

Yes that seems true.
 
> Perhaps only those with experience of military operations will fully
> appreciate the level of planning, discipline, expertise, coordination and
> self-sacrifice required to conduct yesterday's operation so successfully. It
> was a carefully organised and well run operation designed as an act of war.
> It is reasonable to assume that one or more 'terrorist' groups were involved
> in the implementation of the plan 

and that

> but it is improbable that such a plan
> could be brought to fruition without the knowledge of it and connivance in
> it by some state's government.

But I don't see that we yet have any reason to be sure of that.
Organisational skill is not restricted to state employees. 
 
> This is, truly, the warfare of the future, as most of those whose metier is
> to study war have realised this long time past. Much now depends on how the
> US reacts. My guess (and, sadly, my hope) is that those who already expect
> that the reaction to be one of investigation, arrest, prosecution,
> conviction and sentence, all according to the rules of criminal law, will be
> and must be  confounded. We are, all of us and every day, now exposed to the
> risks of a repetition of this type of act - and much worse besides - as long
> as those who consider such acts a reasonable proposition remain alive and
> capable of organisation.
> 
> Only one thing will minimise the risk of such an act occurring time and
> again in the future. The destruction of those who have shown themselves
> willing to commit or aid such an act and - of equal importance - the
> destruction and taking under administration of any society, nation state or
> otherwise, which causes or associates itself with such an act. Anything less
> than this draconian act will be seen as impotence and laughed at by those
> prepared to undertake such acts and it would only serve to encourage future
> repetition and worse.

It is *exactly* this attitude that puts people in a position where they
think they have to do these terrible things. I hope and pray that
whichever Americans are going to take revenge for this (and they will)
have more sense than you.

> 
> I think, in the short term, we all face hard, uncomfortable and distressing
> choices. Better this by far than that the distress of so many in the USA
> this week be visited interminably on millions of others.
> 
> We tend forget that liberty is bought at a price. The price can never be
> paid in coin. It is found in the determination of men's minds to do whatever
> is required that the basic liberty - a freedom of fear for one's life and
> for the lives of one's dear ones and one's neighbours lives - shall be
> maintained at all costs. That price is not a one off payment but a series of
> payments by  instalment. The demand for the next payment has been received.
> 
> I sincerely wish that the American people and their Government deliver this
> payment promptly, in full measure and without visible hesitation. In so far
> as those of us who see that this difficult course is the only one that can
> be reasonably followed, we owe to the US and its people such support,
> comradeship and unanimity of purpose in this endeavour as we are able give.
> 
> Owen Lewis

You are part of the problem, not part of the solution. 

Ken Brown