The 7 Minute Lie

[George_S]

Remember when Bush sat dumbfound for 7 minutes to "protect the children"?

Well, that was another lie. In fact, the Bush spin machine is more than happy to scare children and parents if it will help them win the election:

The safety advice is based on lessons learned from the Russia incident. But there is ''no specific information indicating that there is a terrorist threat to any schools or universities in the United States,'' Hickok said.

Federal law enforcement officials also have encouraged local police to stay in contact with school officials and have encouraged reporting of suspicious activities, the letter says.

In particular, schools were told to watch for activities that may be legitimate on their own but may suggest a heightened terrorist threat if many of them occur.

Among those activities:

Interest in obtaining site plans for schools, bus routes and attendance lists;

Prolonged ''static surveillance'' by people disguised as panhandlers, shoe shiners, newspaper or flower vendors or street sweepers not previously seen in the area;

Observations of security drills;

People staring at or quickly looking away from employees or vehicles as they enter or leave parking areas;

Foot surveillance of campuses involving individuals working together.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/281/wash/Schools_warned_to_keep_eye_out:.shtml

Have they no decency?

[seabeyond]

1. and a 26 mintue photo op afterwards

:)

[kiki]

2. My favourite comment

was from a right-wingnut on a forum who said: "Perhaps they have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they're not telling the public about it because they don't want to scare them." (This was only a couple of months ago, well into the period where a huge part of Bush's credibility rested on finding WMDs.) It would be quite touching if it wasn't so stupid.

[newyawker99]

3. Hi kiki!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: