So I was reading about bin Laden and clicked a Wiki link to the FBI 10 most wanted. Never was there a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. But among the various drug lords, terrorists, and mass murderers, there was Jason Derek Brown.
WTF? You mean to tell me there aren’t 10 people more dangerous and important for the FBI to find than the guido version of Ed Norton? Sure he killed a guy in an armed robbery, but there must be dozens of murders a day! And the guy made off with only $56000? That’s like 3rd place Celebrity Jeopardy money! Why isn’t Ayman Al-Zawahiri on there along with his boss Osama? Or the al-Libi guy they just tried to bomb in Yemen? What is the FBI wasting their top 10 list on a Jersey Shore reject?
He’s on there because he’s considered, for lack of a better word, catchable.
The FBI isn’t about to put people on a list and then never be able to catch them. They want to make themselves look good. So people on that list will have be within the range of being caught, the sooner the better
So why was OBL on the list? I mean, sure, we caught him, but it took a hella work (is that how to use that phrase the kids today say?). I’m sure many of us thought for sure we would ahve had him by now (including teh Washington beard man from another thread)
There’s some politicking in who does and doesn’t go on the 10 most wanted list, but that’s actually a pretty big haul for an armed robbery. Most bank robbers come away with around $4000 (per Uniform Crime Reports) to about $8000 (per 2003 FBI reports). The premeditation and the execution-style murder were probably larger factors, but $56,000 isn’t too shabby for a days work.
So why was OBL on the list? I mean, sure, we caught him, but it took a hella work (is that how to use that phrase the kids today say?). I’m sure many of us thought for sure we would ahve had him by now (including teh Washington beard man from another thread)
