Betting on Terrorism

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How often do you read an epic novel in one day? Hyping leaders had but one day in which they were already expressing opinions. And yet to understand a futures market - even the one called Penn Jersey Maryland electric grid - is hundreds, maybe thousands of pages. Value or the devil is in the details. Without knowledge of those details, those emotional type immediate jumped to conclusions.

Had those politicians been acceptable leaders, then it would have taken closer to a month to understand whether this futures market had merit. But some leaders did not. They knew that most people out here cannot tell the difference between a smart thinker and an emotional hyper. How many others had seen this enough to say, "Wait a minute. We don't have any facts to make such a decision."

In the first days, I looked everywhere for even hints as to how this terrorist futures market would work. It is clear even from the reporters reports that no one knew details - meaning no one had the right to be making blanket declarations about the morality of that concept.

But then decisions were being made on morality - which is an early indication that the decision maker is his own worst enemy. Decisions based predominately on 'morals' is how the extremists like to impose their values on everyone else - to save us from ourselves.