Every time I think my disgust has found its bounds

[pecunium]

From Crooks and Liars:

Transcript from FOX-dressing up to look like terrorists


(Rush Transcript)

IT WOULDN'T BE OUT OF THE QUESTION FOR THEM TO PICK ON SOMEONE WHO MAY NOT BE MIDDLE EASTERN BUT WHO MAY LOOK MIDDLE EASTERN. SAY, SOMEONE WHO IS FROM SOUTH AMERICA, SOMEONE WHO IS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, AND, SAY, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THEY'RE RACIAL PROFILING US, SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO GET SOME PUBLIC OPINION ON OUR SIDE. LET'S DRESS THIS GUY UP, TELL HIM TO ACT SUSPICIOUS, AND IF THE POLICE APPROACH HIM, TELL HIM TO RUN AWAY, AND WHEN THE POLICE CATCH HIM, THEN HE APPEARS TO BE INNOCENT, SO, YOU KNOW, IN ESSENCE, THEY START SENDING OUT DECOYS. THEY CAN DO ALL KIND OF THINGS WHEN THEY KNOW THAT YOUR NET -- THAT YOU HAVE CAST A NET THAT'S THAT NARROW.

I haven't been able to find out who, on Fox News Live, actually said this (and it's possible this is me getting suckered), but Christ on a crutch.

If we look at this seriously it argues the Cops can't make mistakes. Somehow they knew de Menezes was affilitated with al Qaeda, and al Qaeda knew the cops would figure it out, and so they set him up to get shot so the cops (who are, in this authoritarian wet dream, some kind of omniscient) would look bad when they shot him.

If I were going to be more paranoid than I am, I'd say the timing of the London Bombings was to get the PATRIOT Act extended. I'd like to think not (because if it was, then al Qaeda has a much better finger on the pulse of U.S. politicians than I want to think they do), but it niggles at the back of my head (just as I think the Spanish Train Bombings were meant to keep Bush in office).

Comments

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

What scares me the most when I see things like this is how very easy it is for me to believe them. I tell myself all the time to wait for confirmation and not to jump to conclusions, but the fact it has the ring of truth to it says a lot about how much has happened since Dubya took office. Things I never thought I'd see in this country are reality. That this statement was actually made isn't even a stretch.

And I don't think it's paranoid to wonder about the timing of the bombings in terms of the effect they have on the political climate in this country. One does have to wonder, especially since this type of thing has happened more than once.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It isn't that I don't think al Qaeda, et al, aren't capable of such thoughts, I just prefer to think they aren't looking at the smaller scale things (like continuing votes on things like PATRIOT).

TK

But don't say it on dKos

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

or you might get summarily banned.

You might get summarily banned just for showing approval of some theory advanced that is judged to be too "tinfoil" and therefore embarrassing to the admins there, too.

So don't rec anyone else suggesting things like that, either.

(Yes, I am something mad, I am.)