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Not Elway, though. Instead he wants to scare the bejesus out of us by reminding us of the omnipresent threat of terrorism.
The former Broncos quarterback is narrating a PSA titled "Recognizing the 8 Signs of Terrorism" for the Denver-based Center for Empowered Learning and Living, which with a name like that you may be surprised to learn is not actually a front organization for a cult.
If you've been living in post-9/11 America longer than a few weeks, it's nothing you haven't heard in ominous tones before. Beware suspicious packages left on trains or buses. Report odd surveillance activity of public places and large money transactions taking place on the street. Though this particular video ramps up the paranoia a bit by suggesting you should fear pretty much everyone using a cell phone in public.
Oddly, though, Elway doesn't note that you should worry about anyone spotted wearing a Raiders jacket. And I thought he was trying to keep us safe.
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God has Ten Commandments… John Elway gets the same work done in8.
Some of the things he proposes are only good if you’re John Elway. "Hit a suicide bomber in the head with a rock from 150 yards away," or, my favorite, "Fence off North Korea with your giant horse teeth" are not things the average citizen can do.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Oct 8, 2009 12:20 PM EDT reply actions
Tip #9) "I never really trusted that Mushin Muhammad fellow."
10) "Inspire people in terrorist countries with acts of goodness. For instance, I once used my teeth to divert a tsunami away from Cambodia."
11) Notice how you never see Christian Okoye anymore? "I incinerated that sleeper agent by reflecting sunlight off my teeth."
12) "Get a couple of linemen to pull your lips back, and then use your teeth to pick up Al Queida transmissions."
by L'etat, c'est moi on Oct 8, 2009 12:31 PM EDT reply actions
13) "Disguise yourself as a camel, and just keep your teeth facing the terrorist."
by L'etat, c'est moi on Oct 8, 2009 12:33 PM EDT reply actions
if all else fails turn your entire body into a whirling helicopter blade and disappear into the sky.
by scurds on Oct 8, 2009 1:07 PM EDT reply actions
Do not look a gift John Elway in the mouth.
by EMajorwitz on Oct 8, 2009 2:20 PM EDT reply actions
Oddly enough, none of the potential Colorado terrorists in the video look like the 9/11 attackers.
As Peter Ustinov said, "War is the terrorism of the rich. Terrorism is the war of the poor."
by BarefootSerpent on Oct 8, 2009 3:23 PM EDT reply actions
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by simply2amazing on Oct 8, 2009 3:28 PM EDT reply actions
Large money transactions taking place on the street? Like Diamond Joe Quimby said, I prefer an annonymous briefcase over a sack with a dollar sign on it.
by ChiAdam on Oct 8, 2009 3:55 PM EDT reply actions
with a video like this we can pull out of afghanistan
by scurds on Oct 8, 2009 4:05 PM EDT reply actions
This video is part of a globalist agenda to make us afraid of our
fellow countrymen, and divide us so that they can more quickly and
easily control, poison and imprison us. !!911 was an inside job!! Shame on
you Elway you TOOL! Google INFOWARS people and wake up.
by delta21 on Oct 9, 2009 9:30 AM EDT reply actions
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