Saturday, August 07, 2004
Gaslight watch: A terror alert timeline
Via Peanut, Julius gives us a timeline of the series of extremely non-political terror alerts.
And you know, it's funny how conv-e-e-e-e-nient those alerts are: They seem to come right after the Senate has subpoenaed some Enron records (back, that is, when the Senate was performing its Constitutional role), or when Schroeder wins a German election running against Bush, or the day after a new story breaks about the post-9/11 evacuation of the Saudis and the Bin Laden family.... Or after the Democratic convention....
Now, to be fair to Bush, cause and effect could be really hard to discern here. After all, there's so very many things that Bush would like to distract us from, almost any terror alert, even—mirabile dictu—an honest one, would have the effect of driving news that's bad for Bush off the front pages.
Nevertheless, please refer all questions containing the words "tinfoil hat" to The Department of "No! They would never do that!"
NOTE Philosoraptor amplifies the "cause and effect" issue raised above.
And you know, it's funny how conv-e-e-e-e-nient those alerts are: They seem to come right after the Senate has subpoenaed some Enron records (back, that is, when the Senate was performing its Constitutional role), or when Schroeder wins a German election running against Bush, or the day after a new story breaks about the post-9/11 evacuation of the Saudis and the Bin Laden family.... Or after the Democratic convention....
Now, to be fair to Bush, cause and effect could be really hard to discern here. After all, there's so very many things that Bush would like to distract us from, almost any terror alert, even—mirabile dictu—an honest one, would have the effect of driving news that's bad for Bush off the front pages.
Nevertheless, please refer all questions containing the words "tinfoil hat" to The Department of "No! They would never do that!"
NOTE Philosoraptor amplifies the "cause and effect" issue raised above.
