- Torquay, England: cops to give flip-flops to drunken women exiting nightclubs to reduce high-heel trip/fall risk [Daily Mail]
- Mumbai attack introduced new terrorist tactics, expect to see them employed elsewhere [John C. Thompson/National Post, Bill Roggio] Heroic hotel employees [Reuters] Twitter, Flickr come into their own as breaking news sources during attacks [TechCrunch]
- “15 ways to get more out of Pandora” [Lifehacker h/t @lilyhill]
- NYT covers legal difficulties of pursuing pirates (but we did get to the story first) [NYT]
- Interview with Eve Tushnet [Norm Geras via Ann Althouse]
- “Dear @barackobama – thank u 4 another email with ‘donate’ at the bottom. Pls note my future donations will be called ‘taxes'” [@JerseyTodd]
- Pictorial tour of America’s ugliest motel [Lileks] At the time people were duly impressed. What equivalents are we building today?
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On terrorist tactics: We could always hire an AG (among other top law enforcement professionals) who are so good at their jobs that terrorist would thing twice about using such tactics. I think many would be quick to use terms such as facist and to be sure, groups such as they ACLU would love to make all kinds of dough filing suits. But at least we’d either have dead terrorist or terrified terrorist. I’ll gladly give up a few civil rights in the mean time.
“But at least we’d either have dead terrorist or terrified terrorist. I’ll gladly give up a few civil rights in the mean time.”
So, the best way to deal with terrorists is to let them win?
It’s hard to deter someone willing to die while committing a terrorist act. It would seem to me the best strategy is to show that terrorism is pointless.
The Romans used public crucifixion as punishment for various offenses — possibly the most excruciating way to die yet the Romans never seemed to run out of candidates. For example, it didn’t stop Spartacus from leading the Third Servile War against Rome long after crucifixion became a common punishment. If crucifixion didn’t eradicate Roman crimes what can any AG do to provide better deterrence?
Ben Franklin was right.