Decoys

The other day I heard a story about the LAPD who places decoy cars in shitty neighborhoods with cameras inside. When someone tries to steal the car, the car drives for a little while and then shuts down. It is also equipped with a GPS device.

Apparently, the car thiefs know about the decoys and often show anger on camera as soon as they figure out they've been duped.

This strikes me as a very wise policy. And it is easy to test whether the policy works - just check the statistics of stolen cars.

Applying this similar logic to the War on Terror, the FBI made a big arrest in Florida, because an FBI agent was posing as an Islamic Extremist.

These types of tactics give enemies fits trying to figure things out. It gets them paranoid to the hilt. Terrorists are good at this psychological warfare. We should throw it back to them in spades...

...if it ever got real nasty we could do incredibly harsh things. In response to kidnappings, we could inject a soldier with a spreadable biological agent with some sort of antidote or immunity, but that infected anyone who came in contact with him.

When terrorists kidnapped this decoy, they would all become infected with this biological agent. If I were a terrorist and thought that the person I was kidnapping might be a boobytrapped bio-weapon, it would freak me the fuck out.

Don't think that'd pass the Geneva Convention.