>>>I have an open mind about this. Do you think the "thwarted terrorist attack" this morning was legit or a diversionary tactic? Personally I am skeptical. It seems like every time the polls are down the government announces it has thwarted another terrorist attack. "This one was going to be really bad but we managed to stop it." Oh, did you really? Thoughts?
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>>My wife was listening to the news all day... and royall republicly pissed off with "how come they all know so much about it... every expert they call has a mouthful to say right off the bat! Dang, back then we had real terrorist attacks in the middle of tourist season, and you wouldn't notice anything on the streets, all the trains and busses and planes flew normally... and here it's a successfully defended attack and all of a sudden a bottle of water is a weapon? C'mon... what was it this time? Liebermann lost? What is it they need attention diverted from? Lebanon? November elections? Or something else we won't know for weeks?"... more or less. It went on and on all day, with breaks though.
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>>It may as well be the magical anti-elephant powder.
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>What if they had succeeded? What would you have posted then?


They didn't succeed and we have no more reason to consider this a legitimate threat than that English lugnut with an explosive in his shoe. The fact is they never got to first base. Just because the government, one with a long track record of lies and obscufation, says it was a legitimate threat doesn't mean it was.

I heard on the radio that airport lines are markedly longer, reportedly 2 hours at O'Hare on average, due to new security checks for liquid carry-ons. Shampoo, mouthwash, nasal spray, all into the collection bags. Good lord. People still ask whether something like 9/11 will happen again. Here's how I look at it. The 9/11 operation reportedly cost Al Qaeda $200,000 in American dollars. How many billions has it cost us to date, not to mention the psychic cost? Of course it will happen again.