This is how dopey the all-fear-all-the-time set can be. Apparently the recently rounded up included a "leader" - quotation marks required - who was going to set El Norte ablaze:
A Toronto man who infiltrated a group accused of plotting terror attacks on Canadian targets, including Parliament, says the alleged leader of the gang was a "time bomb," who hoped to build an insurgent army in Canada's north. Mubin Shaikh said in an interview on CBC television on Wednesday that accused ringleader Fahim Ahmad had hoped to set up a "Chechnya-style" resistance in northern Ontario....because, you know, the curlers of North Bay and Kenora are just like the tyrannically oppressed peoples of the central Caucuses who wore the Soviet yoke for so long. I can hear Leonard Cohen: "First we take Home Hardward...Then we take Sudbury."
There come a point that these dinks with arsonistic dreams of the Book of Revelations or whatever they believe in have to be called out for the cheese eating school boy can't get a dance dorks that they are. This is not a crusade or a war of cultures. It is a fight against some dinks no one ever liked.

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Ben (The Tiger in Exile) - January 21, 2007 4:54 PM
Trouble is, those dinks that no-one ever liked can still cause much trouble and hardship.
Fictionalized version can be seen in Nabokov's <i>Bend Sinister</i>.
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Contented souls do not become revolutionaries.