Did we hear about the millenium plots BEFORE they happened?

[lottie244]

Is this smart? Do you really think that just because the terrorists know that we are expecting them they won't attack? And would they really target the most obvious places?

[CaTeacher]

1. yes--it was in the news that

"something" may be planned on the millennium. I canceled plans to go to the Staples Center in Los Angeles because it was on the list of possible targets.

Still--even with the warnings, we would have been caught completely flat-footed if it weren't for our Canadian neighbors. We owe them one. And before 9/11, people did not take warnings as seriously in generally as we do now....

[spotbird]

2. Yes, Seattle canceled their millennium celebration.

But we caught the bad guys instead of letting them kill Americans.

An approach that the * administration should consider, the problem is that it isn't good for fear votes.

[oregonjen]

3. Yes plans were thwarted and they didn't make a big deal of it.

If Bush* ever thwarted something, we would hear about it non-stop!

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. One redneck border guard at the Port Angeles ferry dock in 1999

...prevented more terrorist attacks than George Bush Jr, Tom Ridge, or John Asscrotch. It was huge news here, of course, but I'm not sure how it played out nationally. Terrorism wasn't used as a political tool back then.

[Tight_rope]

5. Oh yeah...Y2K...my friend was praying the computers would go mad!

She was planning on geting rich.

[NightOwwl]

6. Yes, I did hear about it.

But it was reported just alike any other important news story. No press conferences, no warnings, no BOLOS (Be On the LOokoutS). Just another item of interest.