“Crickets Chirping” means dead silence. Like in a movie when someone says something that is supposed to create some sort of massive response (anger, applause, laughter) but all you hear is silence, with a few crickets chirping in the background.

Thanks for all the new links to read!

It might be interesting to look at this gang of anarchists/ecoterrorists

Boy, they arrested a lot of people.

http://www.radio.cz/print/en/73723

“The Oregonian newspaper wrote that he arrived in the village of Bly carrying money, poisons and computer disks with instructions on how to make bombs…..Alongside the Oregon terror camp allegations, the British secret services claim [Kassir is] closely associated with Haroon Rashid Aswat, accused of being the mastermind behind the July 7th bombings in London, and the U.S. have dubbed him “Osama bin Laden’s man in Sweden”. “

Here is a CNN SNIP, but there are several stories on the Internet.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/14/terror.camp/

“NEW YORK (CNN) — Federal prosecutors in New York have announced the arrest in the Czech Republic of another man wanted in the Oregon terror camp case.

The suspect, Oussam Kassir, was arrested Sunday in Prague, said Michael Garcia, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Kassir is charged in a criminal complaint with providing material support to terrorists for allegedly conspiring with others to establish an Islamic jihad, or holy war, training camp in rural Bly, Oregon, six years ago.

Kassir, 39, a Lebanese-born Swedish national, allegedly traveled to the United States in late 1999 to scout the land and find potential recruits for the camp, which was never built.

The arrest stems from a case initially brought against American James Ujaama, who pleaded guilty in 2003 and is now cooperating with the government.”

One is a woman named Chelsea Gerlach. You can google her and all the indy sites will give their perspective.

Here is an AP article on her. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051214/D8EFVJ1G0.html

“A woman charged with damaging a transmission tower also is suspected in half a dozen other ecoterror crimes, including a firebombing at a Colorado ski resort, one of the costliest such crimes in the U.S…..The prosecutor also said Gerlach is suspected in the 1998 firebombing of the ski resort at Vail, Colo. Four buildings and four chairlifts at the top of the mountain were damaged or destroyed, and damages were set at $12 million…she is suspected as well in a 1998 attempted arson at Bureau of Land Management wild horse corrals in Rock Springs, Wyo.; a 1999 the arson at a Boise Cascade office in Monmouth, Ore.; and a 2001 firebombing of a University of Washington horticultural research center in Seattle.”

I think this “human rights” Swis guy named Marty is not on our side in the WOT. He doesn’t care about the people who might be killed by the terrorists.

What does it mean when you say “crickets chirping.”

I guess I will not feel too bad if NBC, which is collecting information on Pentagon programs, gets in a lot of trouble.

What they are doing is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
When you publish this stuff in the paper, the enemy can read it.

I think some of these groups are more than dissidents. I think they are terrorist cells. These terrorists are lying when they pretend to be injured innocents.

What NBC is doing is like what Aljazeera does. Aljazeera spies for the terrorists.

This military analyst named Bill Arkin says the Pentagon is going too far. I don’t trust that guy. I think that he doesn’t want us to be able to protect ourselves.

Here is a snip that gives the gist:

“The Department of Defense declined repeated requests by NBC News for an interview. A spokesman said that all domestic intelligence information is “properly collected” and involves “protection of Defense Department installations, interests and personnel.” The military has always had a legitimate “force protection” mission inside the U.S. to protect its personnel and facilities from potential violence. But the Pentagon now collects domestic intelligence that goes beyond legitimate concerns about terrorism or protecting U.S. military installations, say critics. “

I’ll report, and you decide.