rigorousintuition.ca

Earlier today I posted to my blog:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.charm.net/~profpan/2005/10/season-of-fear.html">www.charm.net/~profpan/20...-fear.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Watching the Bush cabal implode over the past few weeks has given me an immense amount of satisfaction, a gleeful, delicious schadenfreude. And it looks like I'll have more and more moments of pure joy as indictments and defeats continue to mount.<br><br>So why am I so frightened?<br><br>Maybe it's because I know how a terrified, desperate animal acts when it's cornered. And as the noose tightens around the criminals in this particular syndicate, I wonder -- with trepidation -- about their reaction.<br><br>They know one strategy works for them when all else fails.<br><br>Fear.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I then posted the color-coded Homeland Security chart, with a photo of a snarling Bush.<br><br>I felt quite sure that some manufactured crisis was imminent.<br><br>So I get home, fire up my laptop, and CNN has "breaking news" about an imminent terrorist attack on the NY subway system:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/06/newyork.subways/index.html">www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/06...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"New York City's subway system went under heightened alert Thursday after officials received information from the FBI about a "specific threat," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.<br><br>A well-placed U.S. military official told CNN on Thursday that the same intelligence also led to a raid against suspected al Qaeda operatives in Iraq.<br><br>There were indications that a terrorist attack on New York's subway system is possible "in the coming days," said New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Gee, they really are getting desperate -- and more and more obvious. <p></p><i></i>

And, I had to laugh when I saw the "<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1190231" target="top">19 operatives</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->" bit. Deja vu all over again. Don't tell me, the number 19 probably signifies the devil in Islamic culture or some such made-up shit. More likely they're hitting our subconscious with this 19 operatives crap in order to get us to immediately buy into the continuing mythology. Heaven help the U.S.<br> <p></p><i></i>

This diary on Kos really nails the way I've been feeling the past few days. It seems the paranoia is as contagious as H5N1.<br><br>And I had completely overlooked the sentence in Scooter Libby's "love note" to Judith Miller, in which he says:<br><br>"You went to jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover -- Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program."<br><br>Biological threats...<br><br>Bush reads a book about the 1918 flu while on his infamous vacation...<br><br>Tularemia at the antiwar march in D.C....<br><br>Bush's press conference, tightly scripted discussion of martial law in the event of a flu outbreak...<br><br>State Department holding an avian flu preparedness conference...<br><br>This does not bode well, peeps. <p></p><i></i>

I couldn't help but notice, either, the growing memetic buzz around the flu....<br>Discussion,<br>Recreation of 1918 strain,<br>Bush's speech,<br>et al ad infinitum<br><br>here's a new one:<br>Plane carrying flu crashes in Canada<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/06/D8D2QNPG2.html">www.breitbart.com/news/20...QNPG2.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

....like the one in Oklahoma?<br><br>Here's my question...if they're trying to scare the shite out of everybody, how come the hush hush on the kid at OU? Why didn't they make a big howdy do about that, that he was attending a mosque, was trying to get into the game and blow people up but they foiled him, but next time, better beware, blahblahblah? A threat to the New York subway system is scary mainly to New Yorkers (not that any of us want anyone blown up, anywhere, but New York's a long way from the heartland or the West). The idea that 'sleepers' who are actually Americans and hence not swarthy, be-turbaned types likely to arouse suspicion may be targeting that most hallowed institution, organized sports--well, that could panic the entire nation, nobody would want to go to a ball game, high school, college, or pro. Beer and hot dog sales would plummet, sports bars would go out of existence, divorce rates would skyrocket as cranky men had nowhere to go to watch overpaid males chase balls of various sizes around and their wives realized what oafs they really are, the now-untethered men would gather in gangs and start hitting anything that moves with baseball bats, the women would marry Sensitive New Age Guys who would encourage them all to go back to medical or law school and demand equal pay and reproductive control, once there were no more visible black sports zillionaires African Americans would realize that other than Oprah, Condi, and a few rappers, they are disproportionately poor and begin to revive the Civil Rights movement...wait, this is starting to sound like a good thing. I mean, families would fall apart because SNAGS generally want to be househubbies and women only make 51 cents on the dollar, kids would have to go to work in coal mines again (maybe with those attractive folks on the GE commercial?), and since they'll no longer be able to afford their Ritalin they'll be hyperactive and easy to get 7 12 hour days out of so we won't need oil anymore...wait...now THIS sounds good...well, if you're not a kid...<br><br>Anyway, my point was, seemingly harmless students vaporizing college stadiums seems to me a better way to grip the nation in terror than a lame "London Revisited" subway threat, but they didn't play it that way. Why? <p></p><i></i>

I do not even have to explicate much here...just follow the quotes from a CNN posting today: <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/10/06/newyork.subways/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2005/US/1...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>a) "In a speech <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Thursday</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, [hyping 911 and the War on Iraq - gouda] President Bush said that since September 11, 2001, the United States and its allies have thwarted 10 al Qaeda attacks worldwide, three of them inside the United States."<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Friday</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, terror threat in NYC:<br><br>b) "Source: Iraq connection"<br><br>c) "Same intelligence led to U.S. raid in Iraq, military source says."<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

ah, right, pretty much what you already posted profpan...<br>ok, i'll be going to bed early tonight.... <p></p><i></i>

Banned:<br><br>They didn't play it that way, I'd say, probably because they know nothing about this bomber. They only like to publicize the ones that work for them. That way the evidence lines up, because it was created early.<br><br>Its easier to put spin on things you've already spun. <p></p><i></i>