{"id":198542,"date":"2007-10-31T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/31\/these-are-not-terrorists-they-everyones-stereotype-of-trekkies-who-need-to-get-a-life\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T03:39:00","slug":"these-are-not-terrorists-they-everyones-stereotype-of-trekkies-who-need-to-get-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/31\/these-are-not-terrorists-they-everyones-stereotype-of-trekkies-who-need-to-get-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are Not Terrorists, They Everyone’s Stereotype of Trekkies Who Need to Get A Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, there has now been a plea in the Fort Dix “terrorism” case<\/a>. It’s Agron Abdullahu, and he was charged with weapons violations, not a direct involvement in the planning or execution of the event.<\/p>\n

The more I look at what various “home grown” terrorists appear to have been planning, the more that it is clear that hese guys are serious wannabes, and they remind me less of terrorists than they do of the pseudo trekkies who referred to episodes by number in that Saturday Night Live<\/span> sketch with William Shatner.<\/p>\n

Remember these guys? They decided that they wanted to attack a military installation, and settled on Fort Dix, because one of them knew the lay of the base from delivering pizzas there<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The FBI learned of the plot when the men went to a Circuit City store and asked a clerk to transfer a jihad training video of themselves onto a DVD.<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which are they more like, this guy, , or this Guy? <\/p>\n

My money is on comic book guy.<\/p>\n

You find the same thing with the “Seas of David” morons. You know, the ones who were “planning to bomb the Sears Tower”, but needed to get some groundwork out of the way, so they, like, you know, went down to the local 7-11 to find supporters<\/a>, and combat with paintball<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s be fair. While I have met some serious lamers at Science Fiction Conventions, and this is not limited to Trek, none<\/span> of them are this lame. These guys make that 45 year old virgin arguing about continuity in Lost in Space<\/span> look like Pierce Brosnan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, there has now been a plea in the Fort Dix “terrorism” case. It’s Agron Abdullahu, and he was charged with weapons violations, not a direct involvement in the planning or execution of the event. The more I look at what various “home grown” terrorists appear to have been planning, the more that it is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,978,982,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-politics","category-stupid","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}