When spies have too little to do
OK folks, a little break from clothing issues. Somebody has found a new place that terrorists may breach fortress America. This is the net virtual world of “Second Life”. Yes, I mean that make believe world, the place where my real life beer gut disappears and the 52 year old me is virtual stud chasing the girls in a disco. (my wife says disco is passe, it is called a club now)
However, I find the concept that terrorists could use “Second Life” for training and financial transfers ridiculous. What training? I am already sitting at a keyboard, I am not going to lose my beer gut that way.
The whole premise is that “Second Life” leaves loopholes where America can be penetrated. So it should be monitored by heroic terrorist hunters.
Well this is not as bad as the FBI paying informants to concoct bomb plots in Miami or that terrorist hotbed, Rockford Illinois, at least so far no real people are being spied on or wrongly arrested, just avatars, but isn’t this more than just a little bit pathetic?
Somebody should give these online spooks some real work to do, like shucking corn or something. And what would their Avatars look like, Dick Tracy or a cartoon James Bond?
Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Aargh, We Are the Enemy.
Comments: 5
Comments
Comment from Groom Lake
Time: February 26, 2008, 7:37 pm
They can be living humans,animals, anything that can squeeze under the umbrella of political correctness. Wait until you are a professor of urinalism and one of your students complains you raised an eyebrow to his/her authorship of a “term paper” written by Hillary Clinton channeling Elanor Roosevelt. Get me Howard Beale from “Network” for details.
Comment from Groom Lake
Time: February 26, 2008, 7:41 pm
One of my hispanic-American neighbors once a member of a Barrio Defense Committee in Managua, Nicaragua when Danny and his bro were rich punks driving Volvos read your post while he was over here sipping on some Havana Club and axed me why you are “squishy soft” on Rockford, Illinois. After all it is Huffer Mecca… home of the company that makes Testors model airplane dope and other insoxicating hobby products you can inhale. That is a global security threat, innit?
Comment from Max
Time: February 26, 2008, 8:44 pm
I don’t know Groom, somehow I just couldn’t fit “Rockford Illinois” and “Threat to World Peace” in the same sentence.
Comment from Sasha
Time: February 26, 2008, 9:03 pm
The famous detective Jim Rockford, formerly of Illinois, increased the threat to world peace when he retired.
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