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I'm sure you all read about how New York City's rich and well-connected were tipped off to last week's subway terror threat days before average New Yorkers.

What do you think of that? To the well-connected goes the information spoils?

Read the article here: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/ ... 2744c.html

A lot of things go through my mind when I read this. First and foremost is "hoax." Too frequently people get a kick out of causing panic by sending crap like this around the web.

Second is "son of a b!tch!!!!" Because if everything is in fact true, it says that the middle and lower classes are not as important as the rich and connected. I would have considered the possibility that the higher ups were trying to determine what wouldn't cause the most panic until I read this part:



He has said he held off alerting the public until Oct.6 to give authorities time to round up suspects in Iraq.


I don't give a crap who needs time to do what, in case they can't "round up" suspects. What if they got the wrong guys? What if they didn't get ALL the guys? They held back info and could have caused the death of who knows how many innocent people. Well, thankfully none of them would have been rich....WTF??? :-5

I agree. And on the other hand, I wouldn't mind being told ahead of time as well!

Maybe we should institute a "Gossip" section here as well!

lol. So much for security when the agency people can't even keep their mouths shut. I don't think it was just some of the 'rich' that got the information, it was relatives also, and then their friends and their relatives, etc. Rediculous and those people should be getting a boot up their butts.