Suggestion Box for Terrorists

The New York Times is in complete meltdown.

It's be forced to shrink.

It's online shake down TimesSelect is being abandoned.

Now, on the NYT website, Steven D. Levitt of Freakonomics fame poses a question in what can only be characterized as a smart ass blog post.

Levitt asks:

If You Were a Terrorist, How Would You Attack?

My general view of the world is that simpler is better. My guess is that this thinking applies to terrorism as well. In that spirit, the best terrorist plan I have heard is one that my father thought up after the D.C. snipers created havoc in 2002. The basic idea is to arm 20 terrorists with rifles and cars, and arrange to have them begin shooting randomly at pre-set times all across the country. Big cities, little cities, suburbs, etc. Have them move around a lot. No one will know when and where the next attack will be. The chaos would be unbelievable, especially considering how few resources it would require of the terrorists. It would also be extremely hard to catch these guys. The damage wouldn’t be as extreme as detonating a nuclear bomb in New York City, of course; but it sure would be a lot easier to obtain a handful of guns than a nuclear weapon.

I’m sure many readers have far better ideas. I would love to hear them. Consider that posting them could be a form of public service: I presume that a lot more folks who oppose and fight terror read this blog than actual terrorists. So by getting these ideas out in the open, it gives terror fighters a chance to consider and plan for these scenarios before they occur.

Readers responded with some plots of their own.

Isn't that nice?

If Levitt were a junior high or high school or college student and he wrote an essay like this, he'd be suspended or pushed into counseling or both.

I think Levitt is trying to find a cute way to illustrate his frustration with the rules imposed by the TSA and what he views as their ineffectiveness.

Maybe at one time he had to give up an expensive, engraved lighter before he was allowed to board a plane and now he's ticked off that the ban on lighters is lifted.
Maybe he's troubled because he has an anxiety attack when he can't keep a tube of toothpaste in his pants.

Who knows?

Whatever, Levitt appears to be taunting the "terror fighters," daring the TSA to establish more rules and limitations.

Yeah, that's funny.

It's so funny to invite readers to brainstorm on methods of terrorist attacks.

It's such a burden to abide by regulations aimed to prevent people from being blown out of the sky.

Freak.