It's Interesting To Note The Quickness In Which The Liquid Bomb Story.....

[global1]

gets the skeptics out claiming it is being used for political purposes.

After 9/11 - nobody - but nobody - would even think of uttering a negative thought about anything the MSM or *Co would tell us. In fact that is what got us into this situation we are in today. We were attacked and we have to get back at those 'evil-doers'. So the whole country and the whole world for that matter got behind us to support that effort. It resulted in giving * the green light to do what he has done since. (Note: He was given the 'green light' to strike back - he than TOOK it to a new level that wasn't actually intended by the original authorization.)

Now move this up to yesterday as this Liquid Bomb story hit the breaking news. It didn't take long for many of us here on the DU board nor some world newspapers or people like Keith O and a big percentage of the American public to be skeptical and question the timing, etc.

You could see the evolution of this change throughout the last 5 years as *Co keeps playing the same 'fear' card to keep control.

My gut tells me that they've run out of steam with this 'same old - same old' tactic. What scares me is that if they believe that they have run out of steam with this tactic that they might need to step it up and actually have something like another 9/11 to scare us all back into submission.

I guess if we were to read a PNAC Mission Statement today - they would say that what they need to continue their work today is 'another 9/11'. That would resonate more with us sheeple than 'another Pearl Harbor'. I fear this more than 'liquid bombs'.

[elehhhhna]

1. glo, even the Freepers weren't buying this one yesterday.

it's uh oh time for the ba.

[ixion]

2. of course, that's the big problem with using fear as a motivator

Like herion, it constantly takes more to produce the same effect.

Fear is a short term motivator. When used as a long term motivator, it produces desensitization and burn out. We are not wired to remain in a state of fear.

Of course, common knowledge never stopped BushCo.

[Wickerman]

3. nice analogy

and even more to the point - users search for a replication of that first high - but there is never a high that measures up to that first time. BushCo* should be learning that time is up on this gig, the addiction to terror is simply not as strong a pull as heroin.

[leesa]

4. I didn't believe 9-11 from the moment the passport was found on the

sidewalk. I knew it was an inside job from that moment. There weren't many people, but there WERE people who didn't believe the BS. AND there were people who could not understand why you would NOT investigate a crime, but instead go off and carpet bomb a country for ten months in order to possible hit a few of the buddies of the alleged perpetrators. Insanity. It would be like carpet bombing Chicago to catch the gangsters after the St Valentines Day Massacre.

[win_in_06]

6. What exactly don't you believe about 9-11?

Do you not believe that the World Trade Center was destroyed?
Do you not believe that over 3000 people were murdered on American soil?
Do you not believe that US Airliners were hijacked?
Do you not believe that the act was carried out by Muslim extremists?

[HuffleClaw]

5. its the ever so convenient timing of these terra scares that concerns me

however i DO fully expect an actual terra attack at some point, if only to justify war against iran. i'd rather expect them to FIRST pretend to have killed bin laden though, and very close to the election. they could produce his 'head', then have CIA call any subsequent bin laden tapes 'fakes'. it would of course be later proven to be complete bullshit. one glaring problem with the terra attack would be that the public would blame bush for it, wondering why all the curtailment of civil liberties and the like hadn't prevented it. i'd call it a real gamble.