The morning after the story broke about how our government saved us from another fiendish terrorist plot, I just happened to be riding the train with a buddy who works as a reporter on TV. We asked each other questions about the news, since we tend to share nagging doubts whenever our government announces how it’s done something wonderful.
From the very outset, it appeared that this was a manufactured crime. Four losers, who couldn’t manage to knock off a liquor store if their lives depended on it, and one prison rat were the players. The rat planned the scheme, gave them the means, and pushed them forward. That’s what it looked like to us. My fear was that nobody, but nobody, would have the guts to call them on it. My buddy had the same fear, with the 6 o’clock report parroting the government’s press release about how they saved us, again, from terrorism.
He was busily typing something into his Crackberrry to his producer, and I said to him, “It’s early. We don’t really know much about this and it’s possible that it wasn’t a total scam. Don’t get too crazy.” After all, he’s mainstream media, but cares too much and thinks too hard to go with the flow.
News reports were gushing praise on the government. Mayor Bloomberg took the lead in praising the arrests, with religious leaders of both stripes fawning over the fine work. As the New York Times told it:
“This latest attempt to attack our freedoms shows that the homeland security threats against New York City are sadly all too real and underscores why we must remain vigilant in our efforts to prevent terrorism,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in a statement.
The charges against the four men represent some of the most significant allegations of domestic terrorism in some time, and come months into a new presidential administration, as President Obama grapples with the question of how to handle detainees at the Guantánamo Bay camp in Cuba.
“It’s hard to envision a more chilling plot,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Eric Snyder said in court Thursday. He described all four suspects as “eager to bring death to Jews.”
Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation ripped the head off this pathetic plot in this post at Alternet.
[I]t’s hard to imagine a stupider, less competent, and less important plot. The four losers were ensnared by a creepy FBI agent who hung around the mosque in upstate New York until he found what he was looking for.So a creepy thug buttonholes people at a mosque, foaming at the mouth about violence and jihad? This is law enforcement? Just imagine if someone did this at a local church, or some synagogue. And the imam says the people “believed he was a government agent.”
Preying on these losers, none of whom were apparently actual Muslims, the “confidential informant” orchestrated the acquisition of a disabled Stinger missile to shoot down military planes and cooked up a wild scheme about attacking a Jewish center in the Bronx.
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On the Money – It really is depressing that there are so many people out there who can’t (or won’t) see this kind of fear mongering government managed fraud for what it really is? Have we really become a nation of sheep?
Shame I was half asleep when I read this and commented earlier. Still, I think my comment was coherent enough to get a point across, sort of.