Terrorists Everywhere

Am I the only one who's noticed that lately, the government's busting a lot more terrorist plots against the U.S. and publicly talking about all the details? I thought that we were at war, and couldn't let the terrorists find out how we gathered information. At least, that's what we were told when we wanted an independent investigation into 9/11. And why media sources are abused when they talk about government programs like wiretapping.

Nonetheless, it is an election year, and republicans have to have something positive to show for their disastrous War on Terror. This last "plot" that was broken up involved terrorists in Lebanon exchanging emails about how they might blow up some tunnels in NYC. Of course, none of them had any training or the means to carry this out (they were also still half way around the world). The farthest they had gotten was printing off maps of the tunnels, the kind you can probably get all over the internet. I'm not saying we should've just ignored these guys, but federal agents are talking about this like we just narrowly avoided another 9/11. Please, how many millions of young Muslim/Arab men print of maps of American cities and talk about blowing something up? Now, how many of them have any hope of ever carrying these dreams out? Maybe a couple.

My theory that we're just arresting anybody who's put down on paper some kind of half baked plan to blow up something big in America is furthered by the fact that in the last few months, three "big" plots against targets in North America have been busted (that one in Canada is the most legitimate in my opinion, the Sears tower and the NYC tunnels are pretty iffy as far as legitimacy goes). I ask you, if wasn't an election year (with bad conditions for republicans), how many of these groups of America haters would've just been roughed up a little bit by local authorities at the request of the CIA and then turned loose without any mention in any papers? Probably most, if not all, of them.

Personally, I'm outraged at this. You should be too, because this is the exact same thing the republicans did after 9/11 when they wanted America to go along with their screwed up ways. They're creating an atmosphere of fear. They want you to think that you're at risk from a terror attack wherever you go, so that you'll just defer to authority (the government). Remember the color code of threats? After 9/11, they'd keep raising it to orange for a few weeks, usually every couple of months, and telling people to look out for random things. It's called "Fear Mongering." The documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has a section all about it that's very enlightening (I encourage everybody who hasn't seen it to do so). I also remember, in my English class, Mr. Hanson explaining the idea well while we were reading Animal Farm (but you had to be there for that one).

Now I've helped to lift the smokescreen, we can see the real fruits of republican rule. Sectarian violence in Iraq, massacres by Americans in Iraq, rape and murder in Iraq by Americans, fourth of July fireworks over Korea, and tax cuts for the rich in America. For all his efforts, George W isn't even winning his war on terror. It's all a sham.