Wanted Man: I Had A Good Reason - loosening bolts on power lines

[dArKeR]

A man sought by the FBI for allegedly loosening bolts on a high voltage power line tower in Northern California was arrested Sunday when he walked into a California Highway Patrol office looking for directions.

Michael Devyln Poulin said his action was intended to highlight domestic insecurity, and that he had been trying to surrender.

He was arrested in South Sacramento after a CHP employee recognized him from a wanted poster, said patrol spokesman Tom Marshall.

In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Sunday morning, before his arrest, Poulin said he meant to highlight the nation's lack of security for the nation's power infrastructure by loosening and removing bolts at eight towers in four states.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/17/attack/main578657.shtml

I said this 2 years ago. Anyone who's not a complete couch potato and has been outside in our great land knows there are thousands of main places that could be targets. (this is why I honestly don't believe any terrorist even exist.) Ever gone camping anyone? See the power lines, small/medium sized dams, fresh water treatment plants, power substations, communication towers... It's just incredible nothing has been done about this, since we're at IMMANENT FEAR for the last 2.5 years and all the 'EVIL DOERS' and infiltrated our society.

Who was the first guy to do something like this? Paul Harvey the journalist. He broke into the military facility that the military said was the most secure site on Earth.

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1. I agree with you on that one

I've been saying the same thing about our vulnerabilities and lack of terrorism. If there were really as many terrorists so determined to do things to us here in the US, they must be pretty lame (or really, really lazy slackers).

Think of Northern Ireland. Think of Israel, or Chechnya. Those areas have terrorism -- you can tell because stuff blows up all the time.

HERE? We should worry about the Bush administration more than terrorism, judging by who's done the most damage to this country...

[pansypoo53219]

2. and likely

to do more and more.
IWaq is a vanity war, NOT a war on terrorism.
dammit, i want him hanged at the Hague.
now that would satisfy me.

[dArKeR]

7. This is where our Media and Gov. could easily be proved guilty

(for something) in a court a law! If there were any terrorists in our country they'd have more than 100,000,000 targets with 100% escapability and 2.5 years to do it.

I don't believe Bush, Asscroft, and Ridge. Total liars.

But I guess the terrorists are waiting for the election debates to start so Bush will have to cancel the debates for 'National Security' reasons. And the terrorist will unwittingly hand the Presidency to the man who is the only only man on Earth they fear. The only man on Earth who can kill them.

[radwriter0555]

3. Problem is that there aren't any terrorists.

Hence, no terrorism.

[Peace_2_Everyone]

4. This is what sickens me about

Wal-Mart subcontracting out to companies that have to be hiring illegals to met wallly’s low pay standards (while making a healthy profit for the owners)

MAYBE none of the illegals in our store were terrorist,(Who can honestly say?) maybe they don’t even know any terrorist. But they learn how wal-mart works and it’s weak spots and their stories could get to the ears of a trained terrorist. Wal-Mart stores are a huge soft target, and wal-mart management doesn’t give a damn.

The time the INS spend investigating wally world should have been spent elsewhere. Someone in wal-mart management should be charged with treason!

They only care about today’s $

[jokerman93]

5. No Terror War? No Terrorists? True but...

just wait.

Remember the so-called "Terror War" is a product rollout. It has been egineered, planned for, and provoked. It is now a reality, and at the moment, the front lines are in Iraq.

But I'm convinced that George Bush and the neocons have every intention of prosecuting this war to its apocalyptic conclusion, and are apparently still preparing for more destruction here in Amerikaland.

I'm sickened and outraged every day I see the amplifying violence in Iraq, and the increasingly bold and belicose religiosity that characterizes the benighted Americans who are supporting the escalation of this war in some kind of trancelike patriotic fog.

Seems like there's plenty of folks everywhere who WANT some kind of clash of fundamentalist civilizations.

[Ernesto]

6. I was in Redding when the story broke

as the guy was seen fleeing the scene and his license number was taken. The local rag (the Redding Record Searchlight) immedeatly declared that this guy was a terrorist member of a "left wing enviromentalist group". Where they got their "facts" is anybody's guess. An example of a small town reporter copy-catting his heroes @ FOX?...... Disgusting!

[OldSoldier]

8. If it wasn't for do-gooders...

there would be no terrorism.

This guy is, arguably, a domestic terrorist. Runnin' around takin' high-voltage towers apart to show America how insecure its power transmission system is. No terrorist is going to pull bolts out of a high-voltage tower; it's not showy enough and it takes too long. He's going to try a high-profile attack, like stealing an airplane and flying it into a power plant.

Same shit with computer viruses. Some guy gets busted for writing a major virus, what's the first thing out of his mouth? "I was trying to highlight the insecurity in our computer system!" Well, if you little fucks would quit exploiting the fuckin' insecurities in our computer system, the virus problem would basically go away. A real terrorist would do something showy, like bomb Microsoft (which, ironically, would increase computer security by orders of magnitude). "Oh my! The terrorists have unleashed a computer virus that has erased all the bestiality porn from my computer!" Uhh...that sounds like a good thing to me!