You have friends, you have coworkers, and then there are those in between, grocery store clerks, babysitters, and neighbors etc.

Scenario: Suddenly you are accused of being a terrorist.
How are these groups going to describe your personality to the terrorist units, CIA, FBI etc?
Just curious, because it very easily can happen in the current climate.

I guess the biggest question I have is, would your friends describe a different person from that of your coworkers?

Myself, I would probably be described as friendly, outgoing, but very, very private with a twist of eccentric.

But just being accused, makes people suddenly look at you in a different light.
Could he do it, is he capable? I heard he doesn't like puppies, and the rumors begin...
Think Richard Jewel...

I'm screwed... ;D

Guy with lots of firearms, travels Internationally for months at a time, disappears in the back country of SE Asia.  Has some extremist thoughts on his blog, lives half-time in China.  Nice guy, but no one really knows too much about his personal life...

Yeah, I'm screwed!  Hopefully if it DOES happen, I'm on one of those trips and it becomes really easy to just blend in.

 :))  I think most people will say I am the same all around. 

Only 4 or 5 people in my life has ever seen the Dark Side of me.  It not good at all, just don't mess with my family.   That is one line you do not crossover.   

Quote from: Shanghai Dan on June 05, 2011, 06:08:19 PM
I'm screwed... ;D

Guy with lots of firearms, travels Internationally for months at a time, disappears in the back country of SE Asia.  Has some extremist thoughts on his blog, lives half-time in China.  Nice guy, but no one really knows too much about his personal life...

Yeah, I'm screwed!  Hopefully if it DOES happen, I'm on one of those trips and it becomes really easy to just blend in.

;D ;D ;D
Yep, you are.
Officer, you should see some of his posts. ::) :D

Quote from: walkstall on June 05, 2011, 06:43:16 PM
:))  I think most people will say I am the same all around. 

Only 4 or 5 people in my life has ever seen the Dark Side of me.  It not good at all, just don't mess with my family.   That is one line you do not crossover.   

Good point, I forgot about my past.
Damn, now I have to dig up my enemies list. :))

Up until a couple of years ago it probably would have been something along the lines of friendly, helpful, nice, devoted Mom....

Then I met Solar and people started questioning my sanity.... ;D ;D    Moved to the middle of nowhere, has guns, is on a political forum...mods the Survival forum....  yes I think some question my sanity.   :)) :)) :)) :))

Quote from: Solars Toy on June 05, 2011, 07:27:45 PM
Up until a couple of years ago it probably would have been something along the lines of friendly, helpful, nice, devoted Mom....

Then I met Solar and people started questioning my sanity.... ;D ;D    Moved to the middle of nowhere, has guns, is on a political forum...mods the Survival forum....  yes I think some question my sanity.   :)) :)) :)) :))

Hmmmm....Now whats not normal about that.  ;D

I've been a verbal terrorist now since the mid 1960s when a pal of mine and I co-founded TRAMPLE (Terrorism, Rampages and Atrocities Mean Plenty of Lively Exercise). We were still working on the codebook and office forms when it all fell apart due to a lack of a group agenda. (By then it was four of us, counting two then-girlfriends we forgot to inform.)

Today, hanging on my home's entry door, a sign saying, NO POLITICAL SOLICITING. The "NO" is 8 inches wide. Hanging right above it....

Quote from: quiller on June 07, 2011, 10:59:28 AM
I've been a verbal terrorist now since the mid 1960s when a pal of mine and I co-founded TRAMPLE (Terrorism, Rampages and Atrocities Mean Plenty of Lively Exercise). We were still working on the codebook and office forms when it all fell apart due to a lack of a group agenda. (By then it was four of us, counting two then-girlfriends we forgot to inform.)

Today, hanging on my home's entry door, a sign saying, NO POLITICAL SOLICITING. The "NO" is 8 inches wide. Hanging right above it....

Soooo you're already on the watch list? ;)

You're goiong to love the Think Tank forum. 8)

 My co-workers ....."Yea the guys a loon, has guns, all the time talking about how much money the government wastes and the commies trying to take over." 8)

My Friends....... "NEVER heard of him" ;)

My Family.........."That's him right there officer"  ???

Quote from: WoodBurner on June 08, 2011, 03:24:38 AM
My co-workers ....."Yea the guys a loon, has guns, all the time talking about how much money the government wastes and the commies trying to take over." 8)

My Friends....... "NEVER heard of him" ;)

My Family.........."That's him right there officer"  ???

:D :D :D :D :D

I really liked that early draft of those TRAMPLE office-forms. Recruitment, pay vouchers, the whole magilla. It's a pity the newest members (the girlfriends) took our attentions away from figuring out why we were organized to begin with.

Ah, callow youth. Hormonal and easily-distracted. Had I only stayed with it, I'd be big at NSA or DHA. If the CIA can hire the former head of East German (STASI) intelligence, there's a job in there somewhere for an old verbal terrorist like me.

Contract work. I read all the Joe Gall novels. I know how these things are done.  ;D