Please, good citizens, please, continue to fear in a vague way about a non-specific threat that I can’t identify. It’s good for the economy. It keeps the Harper Government™ elected. Thank you.

You know, I liked it better when we weren’t building up the egos of our potential enemies. Seems to me today that open talk like this serves no other purpose than freaking people out and legitimizing the nutbars who try to pull this type of nonsense.

It’s very simple from my perspective: You don’t negotiate with terrorists and you don’t legitimize them with free publicity about how “dangerous” they are.

It’s a well known fact that crazies involved in killings like Columbine, or that recent nut in Norway, partially do so on the basis of a desire for notoriety. Everytime we put a nutbar’s name in lights and make a big deal about them personally, we up the ante on the next crackpot.

Al Qaeda is no different. No matter their methods, they’re essentially a rogue political organization that has had far more effect through the media and the in the minds of Westerners, than their actual capabilities really deserve.

I say let them all rot in the dark, while we work behind the scenes to undermine them.

We have to plan for the known unknowns, the unknown unknowns and not forget about the known knowns.