PhiMed said:
I think the people on this website just want to prove that they're good non-racist global citizens by making a nonsense connection to a group that has yet to display this type of behavior.
In the process, they'll ignore the anniversary of the most contentious event in modern Middle Eastern history.
When I turned on my TV on 9/11/01 before my shift at work, I said the sunuvabitch finally did it, referring of course to Osama bin Laden. It wasn't because of racism, it was because the media was conditioning those who paid attention to have this guy on their radar. Back then no one paid attention. My 60 year old neighbor thought the soviets were firing missiles at us and I had to remind her the cold war had been over for some time. But
I paid attention, checked the news on reuters over the web every day. You'd hear all kinds of crazy things, like Al Qaeda growing marijuana fields in Sudan using kidnapped children traded for AK-47s and chickens to fund their operation. You'd hear of bin Laden calling Saddam Hussein an infidel after Hussein denied him refuge back in 98.
Then after 9/11. everything I had been reading for years was cut down, edited, packaged by editors at a TV news room and fed to you the way you were meant to see it. Two days later they found the passports of the hijackers in the rubble which was essentially atomized, but the passports must have floated in the breeze and landed neatly on top of the pile... in something as conceivable as the Kennedy magic bullet theory. It was never questioned. bin Laden also came out denying involvement, something he had never done.
And yet it was used as a pretext to invade Iraq through vague correlation. I remember thinking as the events unfolded that this was playing out all wrong, that this was no way to win a war on terror, this was something else.
The same pattern played out after Waco, Americans were upset about it and then we saw the OKC bombing and any sympathies we had for Waco quickly vanished. First you are conditioned, then an attack happens, then they take the initiative and just roll right over the American people to do whatever they want. I've literally watched this play out a few times in my lifetime so far.
So when they're having trouble taking away our 2nd amendment rights, which is their ultimate goal, and all of a sudden there is a bombing in Boston using black powder and ball bearings, on Patriot's day, you'll have to forgive me if I expect them to blame right wing extremists so they can achieve their objectives. Then they'll make the connections to the Liberty movement, the NRA, Alex Jones, whoever opposes them will somehow be mentioned in the same breath as the bomber.
That's what I see happening. It's also been too damn quiet. No statement. No one has claimed responsibility. I understand they keep mentioning a Saudi national who was wounded, and tomorrow may be a big day for Israel, but from where I sit it doesn't point to a middle east connection at all. We'll just have to wait and see.
