It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by StaringBack
Originally posted by Whyhi
You can't say nobody would find that offensive, no matter it says below it. If I spray painted a bomb threat on a building, then below it I said its entirely fiction, I'd imagine they wouldn't just be like "Oh, never mind, it's just fiction everyone." and leave it up, while I added to it over the course of a few months.
[edit on 20-6-2009 by Whyhi]
Yeah just like Alex Jones predicted 9/11.. I mean the towers are still.... wait... what?
For all we know this could be real and the guy who does it could be trialled for being a terrorist.
But nobody has said "we are going to bomb ___". They've depicted an event happening.
I guess I should stock up on 5.56 rounds, because I just saw Terminator and a robot battle has to be coming.
I mean why wouldn't it? I saw it on the movie screen just like we saw this on a website.
Originally posted by Totakeke
reply to post by StaringBack
But isn't it rather strange that if these events really were to transpire that someone would put up a counter that counts 1 and 2 years into the future? (The bottom counter was taken down at 2 "years" 82 days.) And then what would happen after all of these images and Shakespearean quotes? Would the website go silent for a year?
Originally posted by StaringBack
I guess I should stock up on 5.56 rounds, because I just saw Terminator and a robot battle has to be coming.
I mean why wouldn't it? I saw it on the movie screen just like we saw this on a website.
Originally posted by jimminycricket
I've seen some people getting a little scared, and talking about their bug out bags and the like on this and other sites.
Here are the reasons I'm not scared.
1) The indications this is all just a game by Justin Williams are quite strong, from his postings as Valente on this site, and the change of a filename that was recently posted.
2) If there was really anything to this, the methods just seem implausible. If I were Joe Terror Cell, I would not be using these crackerjack code systems that all of us and our Grandmas can break. I would either be using very high grade encryption, one that even the NSA would have trouble breaking, or I'd use simple plain sight code words, like "When you see me make a blog post/headline with the word 'archaic' that means go", something like that.
3) We now know that MI5 have been informed. They can put tech experts and warrants on this, and use many other methods that we can't to determine what's really going on. They will have access to bright minds. It also seems possible DHS has had a look, they will be in the same boat.
So, to sum up, to me it looks like just a game of sorts, a bit of fun for Mr Williams, and if it isn't, these guys are so amateur that they will be caught long before they get a chance to do anything.
Originally posted by wdream
Originally posted by StaringBack
I guess I should stock up on 5.56 rounds, because I just saw Terminator and a robot battle has to be coming.
I mean why wouldn't it? I saw it on the movie screen just like we saw this on a website.
You can't compare this (OB) to a movie, which had a great promo campaign and media coverage.
Originally posted by DocDoyle
I'm sure everyone here is hoping this turns out to be fake and that someone is just screwing with everyone at ATS.
Originally posted by StaringBack
Agreed.
It's funny that people think these "terrorists" would convey all this through horrible Photoshops, mind numbingly simple codes, and foreshadowing through lines from Hamlet. I mean how cheesy do they have to make things before people start using common sense and realizing it's all a hoax?
Originally posted by StaringBack
Originally posted by wdream
Originally posted by StaringBack
I guess I should stock up on 5.56 rounds, because I just saw Terminator and a robot battle has to be coming.
I mean why wouldn't it? I saw it on the movie screen just like we saw this on a website.
You can't compare this (OB) to a movie, which had a great promo campaign and media coverage.
That's not my point, the point is that these a few websites depicting some sort of mass bombing, never once has the author said the bombings are going to happen.
I mean geez, the newspaper's website said "this is fiction" underneath the pictures. The website accompanying these pictures should be treated as such as well.
Originally posted by wdream
Originally posted by StaringBack
Agreed.
It's funny that people think these "terrorists" would convey all this through horrible Photoshops, mind numbingly simple codes, and foreshadowing through lines from Hamlet. I mean how cheesy do they have to make things before people start using common sense and realizing it's all a hoax?
No. If we talk about conspiration, then it makes sense:
If somebody would leak some info it could be discredited using this.
Imagine the interrogation:
- Hey, I have information about a nuclear attack, with a white van. A sun sign would be on the side.
- Yes, yes. We also saw that sci-fi...
LOL
Originally posted by Totakeke
Originally posted by StaringBack
Originally posted by wdream
Originally posted by StaringBack
I guess I should stock up on 5.56 rounds, because I just saw Terminator and a robot battle has to be coming.
I mean why wouldn't it? I saw it on the movie screen just like we saw this on a website.
You can't compare this (OB) to a movie, which had a great promo campaign and media coverage.
That's not my point, the point is that these a few websites depicting some sort of mass bombing, never once has the author said the bombings are going to happen.
I mean geez, the newspaper's website said "this is fiction" underneath the pictures. The website accompanying these pictures should be treated as such as well.
As soon as they put that code in saying, "This is not simply entertainment." it went beyond fiction.
[edit on 20-6-2009 by Totakeke]