Paintball Jihad??
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[sarcasm mode] oooooo you don't say
[/sarcasm mode]but the thought off a car under his desk brings to mind a better image then an intern the size of a car, just like the former president.
They ran the same story on June 20 during the NBC Nightly news. The NBC segment was about a group of Muslim men who played regular games of PB in the woods of Virginia. During the story, they showed some file footage of woodsballers running around in camo shooting Tippmans at each other.
The FBI suspects that these games were actually training sessions for planned Al Qaeda operations. Given the information in the story, I have serious doubts whether these fellows had any links to terrorism. One of the guys was former US military and a muslim. He was pissed off at being on the receiving end of these accusations, which sound like bull to me.
Don't you know, there's a terrorist under every rock here in America.
The FBI suspects that these games were actually training sessions for planned Al Qaeda operations. Given the information in the story, I have serious doubts whether these fellows had any links to terrorism. One of the guys was former US military and a muslim. He was pissed off at being on the receiving end of these accusations, which sound like bull to me.
Don't you know, there's a terrorist under every rock here in America.
I came across a similar article here: http://www.siteinstitute.org/exposing.asp
I took exception with the sub-title, "What’s really happening on some U.S. paintball courses." As you can imagine I read this article with great interest, but when I began to see nothing regarding paintball until I was about 85% finished with it, I was somewhat confused as to how paintball was able to acheive sub-title status. Especially when the article finally did mention paintball, it did so as if in passing:
".....even practicing military tactics on Virginia paintball courses."
I sent the following email to the author:
I'm writing in response to your article titled, "A Global Network" but it was the sub-title, "What’s really happening on some U.S. paintball courses." that is the subject of this email.
It was kind of a misleading sub-title for what you actually mention in the article relative to paintball, wasn't it? Did you travel to a paintball course (they're actually referred to as fields) to investigate what is "really" happening?
Paintball is somewhat of a non-PC endeavor; stripped to it's core it is essentially people shooting at other people with paint filled gelatin balls. The game can be played in many ways both with a militaristic as well as with an extreme sports flavor.
When reported on by the media, paintball usually depicts kids shooting people on the streets in a perverse form of drive-by shootings, as a tool for delinquents who vandalize schools, or someone who becomes blind because they didn't practice proper safety procedures. This, despite the tens of thousands of games played every weekend in the United States in which no one is assaulted, injured, and no property is damaged. But now we can add terrorist training to the list.
As a terrorism expert, you maybe (or should be) aware of the limited potential paintball has in combat training tactics. I have been fortunate to play paintball at both a competitive and recreational level, and I have also been unfortunate to experience combat (at a survival level). In tactical terms, paintball is not very useful to train with. The inaccuracies of paintball markers at a distance leaves too much room for error to be an effective tactical training tool. It's certainly not effective enough to be the only form of "terror training" that you mention in the entire article, not to mention to be the basis of your sub-title.
Thank you for your time.
I took exception with the sub-title, "What’s really happening on some U.S. paintball courses." As you can imagine I read this article with great interest, but when I began to see nothing regarding paintball until I was about 85% finished with it, I was somewhat confused as to how paintball was able to acheive sub-title status. Especially when the article finally did mention paintball, it did so as if in passing:
".....even practicing military tactics on Virginia paintball courses."
I sent the following email to the author:
I'm writing in response to your article titled, "A Global Network" but it was the sub-title, "What’s really happening on some U.S. paintball courses." that is the subject of this email.
It was kind of a misleading sub-title for what you actually mention in the article relative to paintball, wasn't it? Did you travel to a paintball course (they're actually referred to as fields) to investigate what is "really" happening?
Paintball is somewhat of a non-PC endeavor; stripped to it's core it is essentially people shooting at other people with paint filled gelatin balls. The game can be played in many ways both with a militaristic as well as with an extreme sports flavor.
When reported on by the media, paintball usually depicts kids shooting people on the streets in a perverse form of drive-by shootings, as a tool for delinquents who vandalize schools, or someone who becomes blind because they didn't practice proper safety procedures. This, despite the tens of thousands of games played every weekend in the United States in which no one is assaulted, injured, and no property is damaged. But now we can add terrorist training to the list.
As a terrorism expert, you maybe (or should be) aware of the limited potential paintball has in combat training tactics. I have been fortunate to play paintball at both a competitive and recreational level, and I have also been unfortunate to experience combat (at a survival level). In tactical terms, paintball is not very useful to train with. The inaccuracies of paintball markers at a distance leaves too much room for error to be an effective tactical training tool. It's certainly not effective enough to be the only form of "terror training" that you mention in the entire article, not to mention to be the basis of your sub-title.
Thank you for your time.
Originally posted by T.B.F.K.A.T.L.
but the thought off a car under his desk brings to mind a better image then an intern the size of a car, just like the former president.
Play nice..Monica lost about 50 pounds..Shes about 450 now...Now thats progress...She might actually be a fine piece o ass by the times shes 60..
Oh and TBFKATL-The Ultimate Warrior now spends his time giving speeches for the Republican party...
And before his popular WWF days he graced the ring as the little known Dingo Warrior in NWA..What a fruit!!
I agree! It's about time someone wrote back a reply to an article rather than complaining on these forums that 'paintball is to be banned' again and not doing anything about it!!!
Best thing to do is follow the safety rules and pray there isn't an accident, this is the UK after all.