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WoW Gamer Earns Federal Investigation Achievement
barnyjr writes "A teenager could face federal charges after investigators say he made online threats to kill Americans on a plane from Indianapolis to Chicago. According to investigators, a monitor of the online interactive game World of Warcraft saw the alleged threats in an on-line chat and called Johnson County authorities. She told investigators the chatter didn't seem like a game."
I'm not sure who's crazier, this guy or the guy who just became the first World of Warcraft player to rack up 10,000 achievement points.
Knowing that their government is monitoring motherfucking world of warcraft chat for terrorist activity. I mean, I personally play on Defias Brotherhood (EU) and I'm fairly sure the July 7th bombers didn't plan their attacks in any major alliance cities. Can't speak for the horde of course, its an RPPVP server.
Why do anti-terrorist agencies keep throwing up lonely teenagers with fantasies about blowing things up that they will never carry out? The most obvious explanation is that they are unable to really do anything about terrorism, they know it, and are essentially justifying their budgets.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Yes, because the best approach to rational government is to make all decisions from the perspective of people who are personally, emotionally compromised in their judgment. Fucking retard.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Becomes easier and easier the more you believe it projects it's power. The CIA, yup that's America, the Rand Corporation yup that's America, Microsoft that's America, Israel pretty much America.
China starts to look really reasonable when you consider how many of their "atrocities" they take responsibility for. America looks really scary when you consider how many of their "atrocities" "aren't really their responsibility".