This would be funny if it wasn’t a fairly mainstream theory bouncing around the Left-o-sphere:
So far, no one has been charged in the alleged terror plot to blow up several airplanes across the Atlantic. No evidence has been produced supporting the contention that such a plot was indeed imminent.
The alleged terrot plot, Andy? Are you fucking kidding me?
Note to Time: Why haven’t you fired this lunatic yet? Or do you endorse his asinine conspiracy theories that accuse UK and US leadership of faking a terror plot solely for political purposes?
Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom takes a closer look at Andy’s conspiracy theory:
Andrew appears to be leaning toward the position that the whole thing was a bit of cynical political theater—a thesis that would require Bush to control Tony Blair, the British press, and MI5 (which, to be fair, is hardly a stretch if the Jews can control the media, Hollywood, and the world economy). Otherwise, how could our rogue nation’s Christianist-in-Chief have gotten the British Labor party leader to go along with his nefarious plan to draw attention away from Ned Lamont’s ASTOUNDING Democratic Party primary victory in Connecticut?
No shit. Especially since nobody outside of a vary narrow window of the blogosphere and about 42% of the state of Conneticut even know who Led Namont is — what? his name is Ned? Seriously?
Just to placate Andy, maybe we should stand down the next time we have intelligence (regardless of how it was obtained) that would save innocent lives from brutal acts of terrorism…and when thousand of innocent lives are lost, we can throw it back in Andy’s face and yell, “Alleged this, biotch!”
What was the motivation of rounding up these suspects last week? If they had no explosives, no plane tickets, hell, even no passports what is the threat? Any reasonable intelligence operation (read: Scotland Yard) would wait to see what they do and perhaps be led to big players in al Qaeda. A dumbass (read: the US government) would arrest everyone before there is a threat ruining the chance to learn more from these suspects and jeopardizing the chance of obtaining a conviction.
So that leaves the question: why? Last week, I was as outraged as you at the suggestion that the arrests were politically motivated but given this information I’m not sure why the US pressed for these arrests to occur.
Left by Preston on August 17th, 2006 at 10:58 am