An Unpleasant Reminder

There are still plenty of deranged people out there intent on killing you and your family if given the slightest opportunity:

Seventeen Canadian residents were in custody Saturday on terrorism- related charges, including plots to use explosives in attacks on Canadian soil, authorities said.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they arrested 12 male adults and five youth and foiled plans for terrorist attacks against targets in southern Ontario.

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British anti-terrorist police are hunting for a "dirty" chemical bomb that could be used in an attack in Britain after a major raid failed to uncover a device they believe exists, newspapers reported on Saturday.
More than 250 officers, some wearing chemical, biological, and radiological protection suits, shot one man and arrested another during a dawn raid on an east London house on Friday.

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It’s reasonable to assume that similar plots are being planned in the U.S., and I would expect, in light of these recent arrests, that questions about the NSA’s wiretapping program by such politicians as Senator Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, will now begin to subside.