“While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot,
By on Aug 11th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
“While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot,
the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology,” the AP reports. “Congressional leaders rejected the idea, the latest in a series of steps by the Homeland Security Department that has left lawmakers and some of the department’s own experts questioning the commitment to create better anti-terror technologies.”
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And this is a surprise? you’ll search every handbag for chapstick only after 5 years of the “terrorist threat”, but you don’t search every container coming into US ports that might hold a “loose nuke”? And “some people” question the “commitment to create better anti-terror technologies”?
August 11th, 2006 at 7:54 pmGo Team Terror!
August 11th, 2006 at 7:56 pmand what of the cargo, along with luggage, sitting under passengers, NOT INSPECTED ?…
August 11th, 2006 at 8:02 pm$6 million? Pardon the analogy, but that is truly a drop in the bucket.
August 11th, 2006 at 8:04 pm#4, extensive testing has been done with bomb proff luggage/cargo containers that can be loaded into planes, and the tests show they work VERY well. The government rejected the idea as “too expensive”. But buying billions in bomb sniffing machines with contracts going to Bush cronies, that’s not too expensive.
August 11th, 2006 at 8:07 pmbones… would that be trombones?
August 11th, 2006 at 8:10 pmcurious…
Trombones? No I’m a sax man…
August 11th, 2006 at 8:14 pm;-)
August 11th, 2006 at 8:15 pmi’m a big marching band fan… so i just wondered…
August 11th, 2006 at 8:17 pmI still can’t believe we can’t yet gather enough people to storm the Bastille…
Or that people are still defending the guy who has ignored the nutjob who attacked us on 9/11, and had been planning to attack again… and might have suceeded if not for the British police.
Osama, wingnuts! Not Saddam or Iraq attacked us. And Osama was getting ready to do it again. Yet, Bush doesn’t think about him. How can you still deny these basic facts?
August 11th, 2006 at 8:20 pmSounds like Bush’s defunding of New Orleans levees before Katrina…
August 11th, 2006 at 8:24 pmPlease pay attention,American citizens.The Administration is woefully neglecting our safety.
They’re no doubt playing the game of:”If the worse happens, and they strike here at home,this administration will find a way to blame the Democrats–with the help of a cowardly media.”
August 11th, 2006 at 8:24 pmEverytime I poke my head in here
August 11th, 2006 at 8:47 pmI gotta increase my drip…sup with that?
This is just one indication of how committed the neocons are to “fighting terror.” We spend $6 million each year making sure there are multiple flavors of ice cream stocked in the “Green Zone.”
August 11th, 2006 at 8:50 pmIt be more accurate to rename DHS as the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity. Sarcasm OFF!
August 11th, 2006 at 9:05 pmIt asked to take $6 million from Homeland S&T’s 2006 budget that was supposed to be used to develop explosives detection technology and instead divert it to cover a budget shortfall in the Federal Protective Service, which provides security around government buildings.
They need it to protect their own asses. Typical…
August 11th, 2006 at 9:30 pmHo Chi Minh @ 17
or the Ministry of Motherland Anxiety- that seems to be all they really do
August 11th, 2006 at 9:42 pmBut you see, if we actually spent money on things that made the little people safer, they would lose their fear, and without their fear, they cannot be controlled. If a few hundred, or a few thousand little people have to die so that the ruling class can stay in power, it is but a small price to pay for their continued domination.
Unenlightened beings must have a ruling class. Enlightened beings are a threat to the ruling class. Both the ruling class and its followers will be openly hostile to the coming enlightenment.
August 11th, 2006 at 9:44 pmWithout “fear” what else does the GOP have to run on?
August 11th, 2006 at 9:52 pm“VOTE FOR US, AT LEAST ROVE WASN’T INDICTED”
“VOTE FOR US, THE GUY CHENEY SHOT IS STILL ALIVE, AIN’T HE?”
“VOTE FOR US, ABROMOFF DIDN’T GIVE MONEY TO EVERY REPUBLICAN”
“VOTE FOR US, BE THE FIRST IN LINE TO BUY A VACATION CONDO IN IRAQ”
Fair nuff!
August 11th, 2006 at 10:20 pmIs a chimp, following Nixon, an evolutionary improvement?
Oh,man. I wanna start cussing SO BAD right now. What in the HELL is wrong with these people?!? Besides EVERYTHING!! I am totally pissed off. I could stomp Chertoff into powder, right now. Congress gives these Boneheads more than 700 Million dollars, this year alone, so these INCREDIBLE IDIOTS can play with all of this STUFF, casting off one to grab the next one, and doing it over and over again. But they don’t want to make a choice just yet. What if something EVEN BETTER (maybe) came along? We’d be stuck then! So forget that noise, we’ll just keep looking… for now. What’s the hurry? Thursday, the peons find out about a plot, boy those BushCo folks DO love their secrets! Those goofy B*st*rds! Always looking for new ways to ’surprise’ us! And on Friday, guess what!?! We finally got someone to ‘head’ our department! We’ve been ‘headless’ for awhile, but BushCo has been REALLY busy lately, all those ‘war’s’, don’t you know. The true tragedy here is, that this crap will go on and on, in some form or another, until every last one of these worthless F*CKS is dead and gone. And it will take DECADES to happen to them all. They won’t ever stop, until they are dead. And Congress had to take back 200 Million dollars, because they weren’t wasting it fast enough. But they can’t find 7 Million dollars to fund Brain Injury Research, meant to help our Veterans, who were injured, fighting BushCo’s battles. “The budget is just so tight right now.” Take it out of the 200 Million you took back from the DHS, you F*CKING JERKS!! I apologize for my foul mouth. But damn…
August 11th, 2006 at 10:35 pmWhile Bush is galvanizing militancy against the U.S. and not taking proper steps to really bring about Homeland Security – you have this idiot on CNN calling Lamont the so-called Al Queda candidate:
“How does this factor into the Lieberman/Lamont contest? And might some argue, as some have, that Lamont is the al Qaeda candidate?â€
—Chuck Roberts, CNN anchor
Read this and keep your eyes open re: CNN.
As many of you know – CNN is owned by Time Warner.
Time Warner is run by Dick Parsons - who is a Republican and was involved in Republican politics early in his career.
While still in his 20s, Parsons was an adviser to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and to President Gerald Ford.
http://www.businessweek.com/ magazine/ content/ 03_20/ b3833001_mz001.htm
The same article says that G.W. Bush had offered Parsons a job during his first term ( it does not say what job ).
I do not intend to indict Parsons of “playing dirty pool†with his influence and party loyalties. I do not know much about him. Seems like a reasonable guy whenever he shows up on CNBC.
But we do have to keep an eye out for more bullshit like this from CNN.
After all that has gone on with Bush in charge – dots that connect the way these dots seem to be connecting cannot be ignored.
August 11th, 2006 at 10:43 pmGood rant, Cyra.
August 11th, 2006 at 11:31 pmAccording to the Bush Regime, Americans are supposed to feel safe now as you go to the airports having your shampoo and other personal hygiene products thrown into the trash, for NO damn legitimate reason?! Dumploads of passengers personal stuff is being taken to landfills or thrown into incinerators, and nobody gets compensated for any of it, plus the stuff becomes toxic waste instead of being used! Supposedly the terror group that planned on blowing up planes with liquid explosives has already been arrested in Britain, so who is going to spike the shampoo now?
August 12th, 2006 at 2:24 amI saw on CNN a scene at the airport of a huge trashcan filled with unopened tubes of toothpaste, so will the stuff at least be given to poor people in Africa? Nope it gets destroyed > Bush is the worst dope that has ever existed!
August 12th, 2006 at 2:28 amNote: Toothpaste is usually milky white with blue or red swirls in it, so unless a tube spews out some brown plastic stuff, it is perfectly safe toothpaste! Maybe Bush wants Americans teeth to all rot out and be forced to pay for GOP affiliated dentists?
August 12th, 2006 at 2:33 amBoy, you wanna see cahos, wait until we roll out the shit bombs this fall.
-Al Qa Qa
August 12th, 2006 at 3:09 amTERROR FEAR TERROR FEAR TERROR FEAR TERROR FEAR TERROR FEAR
August 12th, 2006 at 5:57 amUnable to sleep so what will the Bush Regime decide is dangerous at airports next? First off NO watches, because we know from James Bond movies that a wrist watch can even have a lazer weapon inside it > lol. NO false teeth, because those could be made of plastic explosive, or like JAWS in the Bond films could be used to bite through a steel cable > lol.
August 12th, 2006 at 6:08 amHow about NO glasses, since Bond’s shades can cut like a knife or have exray vision > lol.
NO belts allowed because you could whip the pilot to death with it, or strangle the stewardess with it > lol. NO thongs either because you could use it as a slingshot > lol.
NO hats since in Goldfinger movie the chinese guy’s hat could be used to cut a head off > lol. Anybody else have any ideas what needs to be banned from passenger planes?
#31 Dangerous Items Banned on flights by Republicans
1: Books – These items promote independent/critical thinking. A great danger exists that citizens may read something other than RightWingMedia FEAR/TERROR propaganda and in doing so, lead people to come to their senses and remove all Republicans from office in the upcoming elections. The only exception would be bibles since the old testament reflects and reinforces Republican values/beliefs.
2. Restricted TV/Movie viewing — For obvious reasons, only the FOX NEWS channel should be allowed to be shown on any and all flights. Passengers viewing anything else may be exposed to Anti-Republican/Liberal Media messages emanating from some remote corner of the globe, such as Antarctica…Too Risky!
3. Conversations should be restricted to infotainment topics only – Airline Passengers should be required to avoid discussing anything remotely controversial or political in nature unless the purpose of the discussion is to remind other passengers of the potential dangers of Terrorism. Examples of this would be to remind other passengers that the War in Iraq was justified because there were WMD’s there (even though they were purchased from the US) along with Terrorists (originally trained by the US) plotting Terrorism. Above all else, passengers should be reminded of how afraid they should be of the Terrorists. Passengers should be encouraged to tell scary, bedtime stories instead, followed by a card game using a deck of Iraq’s most wanted playing cards.
Remember…Be Afraid, Be VERY AFRAID! Terrorism is just around the corner!
August 12th, 2006 at 7:06 amTHE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR!
August 12th, 2006 at 9:13 amWhy are they dumping all of the “suspected” liquids into one area combined? Aren’t they supposedly deadly? And why wasn’t a red alert given when the Canadien and Floridian plots were discovered? This is the same thing correct?
August 12th, 2006 at 9:43 amThe stupidity on the face of this policy is unbelievable. So people show up in an airport. They have hand carry luggage and because of the increased focus on chapstick, LONG lines develop. I was in Vegas airport when @ 3000 people were snaking round and round packed tight body to body in a small enclosed area. Would you do any less damage or kill fewer people if you set off a device in that area. Would you terrorize people any less if the event occurred in that crowed enviornment in the airport than on a plane? No you would kill dozens, shut down the air transportation system nationwide. You would disrupt travel, commerce, and terrorized the entire country. Yet there is NO security procedure that addresses this possibility in any airpport in the US. This “increased security” is NO security at all.
August 12th, 2006 at 10:03 amNote: Toothpaste is usually milky white with blue or red swirls in it, so unless a tube spews out some brown plastic stuff, it is perfectly safe toothpaste! Maybe Bush wants Americans teeth to all rot out and be forced to pay for GOP affiliated dentists?
Comment by Jay Randal
All the best terrorists use minty fresh explosives…it’s a dental conspiracy!
August 12th, 2006 at 10:10 amHow the hell could someone take down a plane with a tube of Chapstick??
August 12th, 2006 at 10:24 amFolks, you just have to realize that Bush has bankrupted the USA. Despite the billions of dollars that flow into the treasury every quarter, the USA is broke. Bush and his ilk have spent it before it got there. Borrowing a billion a day from China and other countries will do it.
In spite of the attack on this country 5 years ago, this administration, blindfolded and ignorant, just does not understand terrorism. You cant fight terrist if you dont know what terrorism is.
Look at the British system. If this plot would have been discovered in the US a TOP SECRET tag would have been put on everything connected with it, the people thrown in the darkest of prisons, and never heard from again. We are not a government that works folks because of the policies instituted by this right wing nut, and his followers. Our government is owned by the oil companies and by the pharma industry and by cohorts of the administration such as Halliburton, et al.
It is time to take back your country my fellow citizens. It is time to vote and revolt. It is time to take over the oil companies and run them as a business, not a private concern where every dollar made and gouged from the public is set aside for the retirement of the officers of the company.
August 12th, 2006 at 10:35 amWell of COURSE the bushniks were diverting funds designated for homeland security — the only “homeland” they prefer to secure is their own castles. BushCo spent years fighting the 9/11 Commission, then denying the truths of the commission’s report, and now, a couple of years later, they’ve ignored all the recommendations of the commission and have failed to implement those recommendations.
All that the bushniks and their republicrap enablers want to do is TALK about security — they have no real interest in actually DOING anything about it. So continued diversion of designated funding should not be a surprise…
August 12th, 2006 at 10:48 am39. Let’s do it!!! Aren’t you sick of this yet…lets take back our country for these criminals.
August 12th, 2006 at 10:57 amSB 38. Sorry
August 12th, 2006 at 10:58 amAnybody else have any ideas what needs to be banned from passenger planes?
Comment by Jay Randal — August 12, 2006 @ 6:08 am
What should be banned is Bush, et. al from Air Force One!
August 12th, 2006 at 11:01 amJust change your foreign policy nothing else needs done
Congratulations to the insurgents another milestone acheived , once again well done. 2,600 members of the U.S. military have died actually 2601 , welldone keep up the good work
August 12th, 2006 at 11:05 amWhile the British were uncovering a terrost plot, the Bush admin slept. Now they are saying WE broke up the plot.
Bush has failed in his fight on terrorism because he has no idea what is happening. The admin still cant figure out what went wrong on 9/11, yet the rest of the world does know. For the past 5 years they have been fighting the same losing battle.
It is idiotic to think that the Bushies can protect us from terrist when they have no idea what a terrist is.
We invaded Iraq. WMDs and terrist were supposedly there. Find any? Nope. This administration cant find its ass with both hands.
In Iraq a helicopter went down. It took our vaunted military 3 days to find it. Incompetence is everywhere folks and the lead impotent incompetent is sitting in the Oval Office.
Something needs to be done.
August 12th, 2006 at 11:19 amI have the feeling that the Bush administration would like to see more terrorist attacks in the this country so they can use it towards their right wing political ends.
August 12th, 2006 at 11:30 amCongratulations to the insurgents another milestone acheived , once again well done. 2,600 members of the U.S. military have died actually 2601 , welldone keep up the good work
Comment by E-Scream
So sad.
Actually, I would “congratulate” GWB before the insurgents. Without him, there would have been no insurgency.
August 12th, 2006 at 11:32 amI have the feeling that the Bush administration would like to see more terrorist attacks in the this country so they can use it towards their right wing political ends.
Comment by kevin99999
It’s my feeling that you are correct, kevin.
August 12th, 2006 at 11:32 amOf topic, kind of, but a Leftwing idea for how to handle this whole bit about not being allowed to take liquids onto a plane if you have a case of wine: Everyone shares. Lets start a campaign to make the queue fun, I mean, why not crack out some cheese and biscuits while you are at it? Hey a bomb could be hidden in that packet of Lays so it may as well get eaten.
It even makes spotting the terrorists easier; they’ll be the guys who after an hour of this are still standing.
August 12th, 2006 at 11:33 amYou know if all you people stayed home and went to church everyday there would be no need for air travel and therefore no planes being bombed.
August 12th, 2006 at 11:38 amGood posts here! IMHO.
August 12th, 2006 at 11:50 amKeeping Americans afraid continues to work for Bush&Co. I just saw a poll taken yesterday with Bush’s approval spiking upward because of the terror threat. :(
August 12th, 2006 at 11:58 amIn every other area, he fails miserably, but this one continues to sway the frightened public. Rove, the master political brain says – be afraid, people. Be very afraid. Only GW and his cabal know how to keep us safe – and the sham works.
Everyone seems to forget that in 2000, Clinton foiled a millennium attack.
Everyone forgets that the WTC was bombed in 1993 and those perpetrators are in prison (Clinton’s admin.)
Everyone forgets that Reagan is the one who left Lebanon – I don’t say that was right or wrong – but it was sure “cut and run.”
Why oh why don’ t the Dems speak louder against this Rove noise machine.
Marie
This is why we on the left need to fight this issue the best way we know how, by saying “Up yours” to both the terrorists and the fear mongers. Lets make the waiting in line fun, and show how unafraid we are. Lets show our strength, humour, and resiliance in the best way we can: Make every airport a party.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:05 pmI am always up for a party, Bruce!
August 12th, 2006 at 12:25 pmIf W would have received an urgent PDB on this while at the ranch in Crawford, if he would have received a personal visit from the CIA indicating the potential threat, he would have told the agent, “OK, you’ve covered your ass now.” And he would have tossed the PDB in the wastebasket as simply an historical document, repeating the same old, same old.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:28 pmOh – wait — he did that before? On August 6, 2001?
The Bush machine has been asleep at the wheel ever since 9/11, and before. Please recall that following that eventful day all of the principals in the failed administration went before the cameras and gave out statements like “who would ever have thought the terrists would use an airplane”.
Well folks, let me put you straight. The FBI and other intelligence agencies are brimming over with that very prospect, yet nothing was done by the corrupt Bushies. Hellfire, a guy in a light plane even flew onto the WH grounds and crashed, trying to reach the presidents bedroom. Hit a tree instead.
Thousands of books have been written in the past 6 years about the incompetence and the lies of this administration, but are people reading them, and waking up?
The answer is no.This incompetents poll numbers are at 33%, when they should be in the minus column. Wake up and piss amurka, the world is on fire.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:06 pmJust so you know the press has finally reported that the supposed terrorists intended to bring contact lens eye wash bottles on the planes filled with peroxide, and like shampoo bottles filled with bleach, then mix the two chemicals to make a liquid firebomb of some kind?! The odd thing is that this would have nothing to do with toothpaste or chapstick or even a deodorant bar! Nor cans of shaving cream or even tiny bottles of perfume! The Bush Regime has used this terror threat to justify confiscating people’s personal hygiene products for NO damn legitimate reasons, but the security dopes at the airports keep taking the toothpaste from everybody ? Come on Americans use your brains and realize Bush is fooling everybody again!
August 12th, 2006 at 1:29 pmJay,
August 12th, 2006 at 1:43 pmWhat do you think is the potential for explosions with all those liquids dumped into trash cans around the terminals?
This was the same kind of threat that was foiled in 1996; this isn’t something new. They said no one would have ever thought that a plane would be used as a bomb – when they already knew that it had been tried and written about many times.
America is not waking up to their lies; just when we think they might be rousing from slumber, a terrorist plot is revealed and Bush&Co are happy again.
Finally, HS is now saying that this ban on liquids won’t last too long.
What does that say about their credibility, and the reliability of their words.
I have to go pick up my mother at the airport tomorrow. I’m dreading it…
She called to say that she’s leaving all her “liquids” behind her, just in case.
Typical knee-jerk Neocon reaction to what has already happened and not to general security as a whole.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pmPost 57 Marie > dumping some of those items together if they mixed could cause a toxic gas cloud in the airports or a vapor that could irritate the eyes or lungs! The fact that the items are all dumped together proves that the terror threat is completely bogus! Removing the items is just for show and to instill fear on all the plane travelers!
Plus TOOTHPASTE has nothing to do with anything, so security taking it is plain stupid!
August 12th, 2006 at 1:57 pmOne other thing of interest is that the press reports the ban on personal hygiene products will be rescinded in in late September, so this is to cover the period up to 9/11, so like I said a bogus contrived terror threat!
August 12th, 2006 at 2:03 pmI used to work for a hardware/nursery-plant chain store > we kept pool acid at one end of the inside pool supplies and clorine at the other end > if the two were poured together it sets off an instant deadly gas that would burn your skin, damage your eyes, and sear your lungs causing an agonizing death! One day just before I arrived an employee poured the two together at the same time in a small pond > the gas filled the greenhouse and burned most of the plants seriously and the whole nursery had to be evacuated! Those two chemicals could kill all the passengers on a plane and cause it to crash!
August 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pmWhy oh why don’ t the Dems speak louder against this Rove noise machine.
Comment by Marie — August 12, 2006 @ 11:58 am
good question, marie! i can work that one in! thanks!
August 12th, 2006 at 6:35 pmThe Terr’rists won’t get us, but gingivitis will!!!
Seriously though, it does make great press, to inconvenience thousands of travelers and force them to sacrifice tens of thousands of dollars worth of goods on national television to drive home the point that we must be afraid, and must all be willing to sacrifice in the global war on terror.
With great bravura He puts on an illusory show of force, while freight cargo still goes onboard unchecked.
More has been accomplished with a half-baked scheme than a well-carried out attack. Can you imagine the havoc one person could do with a bottle of Mr. Clean and a bottle of Clorox on a crowded subway?
It is only a matter of time before such an attack will happen, and it is more likely now that this method has garnered such publicity.
Eventually we will realize that we cannot combat terrorism with violence. We must work to eliminate the root causes. Peace will be attained. But will it be the peace of the graveyard, or the peace of enlightenment?
August 12th, 2006 at 7:36 pmbriseadh na faire – did you see this?
Aviation critic Michael Boyd on our Airport security
By: John Amato on Saturday, August 12th, 2006 at 2:46 PM – PDT
CTBlogger sent me this clip and writes.
Boyd was on MSNBC and he carefully detailed the absolute stupidity regarding the new airport carry-on rules while rightfully blasting Bush Administration, Transportation Security Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security.
…
and, welcome back!
August 12th, 2006 at 8:05 pmand this:
Right Wing going ga-ga over the NSA
August 12th, 2006 at 8:34 pmBy: John Amato on Saturday, August 12th, 2006 at 11:55 AM – PDT
Glenn Greenwald easily debunks the right wing silliness over the NSA warrantless program. Legal surveillance, not illegal eavesdropping, stopped the U.K. terrorist attacks. The WSJ offers up no proof, but the wingers fall in line.
#64 – no, I didn’t see that particular one. but it doesn’t take too much to figure out that the “security measures” instituted since 9/11 are largely a sham, designed more to keep fear in the public eye than to actually protect anyone.
And thanks for the welcome back. After taking the Bar exam, I took the Mrs. on a trip through Europe to see some of the places I visited when studying international law. We flew back just hours before the new restrictions! At least we didn’t have to repack the 3 bottles of French wine we bought in Paris. And if we would have had to dispose of them, I’d have filtered them through my kidneys first!
I can see a resurgence in sales of hard-shell luggage. The soft-shell pieces don’t protect the contents too well. We packed a bottle of Sacher (chocolate) Liquor from Vienna into checked-in luggage. It was packaged in a wooden shipping box. The box was destroyed, but fortunately the bottle was still intact. So—if you’re going to check-in bottles of wine, etc., I strongly recommend you get some hard-shell luggage. Then mark it “fragile – drop with care.”
August 12th, 2006 at 9:02 pmeh hehahaha … good chuckle… “drop with care”…
good story…
i sent my son back to berkeley that morning – a bit tense till i got the all’s well call…
August 12th, 2006 at 9:13 pmi’m planning a drive out west next spring – hell with these jets…
i’m looking for a 2-seater, mid-life crisis car… pearl iced blue…
Anyone who falls for the nonsense the administration is putting out is a simpleton. Acetone triperoxide, which can indeed be made by pouring nail polish remover into a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, is the equivlent of flash powder and is, in fact, used in the movie business to give the illusion of an explosion without doing any damage. The so-called plotters are either idiots, dupes, or they don’t know how to read.
August 13th, 2006 at 3:27 am[...] And, of course, the same media who breathlessly played up this story last week will ignore this story for the most part, burying it in Sunday night coverage or on page A8 tomorrow. The Bush Administration gets to claim success for not really being involved in stopping a terrorist attack that wasn’t really imminent, the public gets its fears ratcheted up again, and true discussion about deficiencies in our security five years after 9/11 will continued to be ignored. [...]
August 13th, 2006 at 8:56 pmNovember Predictions:
Another Al Qaeda Attack
Another Bin Laden Video
Another Rigged Election
Another Republican Sponsored Supreme Court Decision
August 14th, 2006 at 3:10 amIt is not the administration’s intent to fight “terror”. Terror is a construct to enable the “new world order” to take control of the U S and all other gullible governments. For Bush, and his seldom seen backers, terror is a cheap, manageable device by which to control the minds of people. Don’t be diverted by these tactics. Just start tallying up all the gains that the totalitarian “a-h’s” have made since 9-11. More than Clinton did with his more subtle ways. Their biggest fear is that we will catch on to their psychological manipulations. Be on the watch. They don’t seem to have any other effective devices for manipulation other than fear and ownership of the public media. Watch for them to try to shut down the internet.
August 14th, 2006 at 12:52 pm[...] “Whilte the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6m that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology,” the AP reports. “Congressional leaders rejected the idea, the latest in a series of steps by the Homeland Security Department that has left lawmakers and some of the department’s own experts questioning the commitment to create better anti-terror technologies.” [...]
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