The Mayor Bloomberg, the head of police, and a guy from the FBI is giving a press conference about a credible threat on the NY subway. I'm really not much of a conspiracy theorist, but really, come on now. Isn't it convenient that this is happening that week that rumors of indictment are starting to fly madly about the President and Vice Presidents' chief advisors being indicted? We really are sheeplike, us humans.
In his speech in answer to a question that I couldn't hear, Mayor Bloomberg did say that the threat came from, "outside of the country." Jingoism, anyone?
Another wierd thing and the story doesn't show it any more when you clink on the yahoo news story link above, but at about 5:58 pm, the same story included a line that said something along the lines of, "A representative of the FBI in Washington said there was no evidence of any threat on the New York subway." My italics.
I hope there isn't a terrorist attack in my beloved city, don't get me wrong. But after x number of national orange alerts before the election and 0 after the election, I am a tiny bit jaded. The conservative right has used 9/11 to such a degree, that aside from the loss of life and trauma to the city, the other real casualty would be, well, the world. Think how much more damage the U.S could inflict with the United States united behind some other disastrous war.
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you are right!
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