tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817465.post777808926232503688..comments2023-11-02T05:43:43.569-07:00Comments on Left-Handed Leftist: LHLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239320236309335507noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817465.post-23402801111457638092006-12-22T16:11:00.000-08:002006-12-22T16:11:00.000-08:00Cool blog - find it hard to believe that you have ...Cool blog - find it hard to believe that you have put this much effort into blogging about just this though - why not try blogging on <a href=http://www.superthe.info/cgi-bin/index.pl/safe-cavalier-pulaski.html>debit card payment software</a> sometime?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817465.post-82833240049840422112006-12-21T21:38:00.000-08:002006-12-21T21:38:00.000-08:00Good post, Lefty. You've got it unspun just about ...Good post, Lefty. You've got it unspun just about right. But there are even wider ramifications. <br /><br />The arrests of August 9/10 shut down media cycles which were very uncomfortable for Bush and Blair, and then we had a couple or three weeks of all-liquid-bombers all-the-time and then at the end of August we had a virtual media blackout on the case and we shifted into 9/11 five-years-on all-the-time and the "terrists everywhere" meme grew stronger at a time when in the absence of all this phony crap it would have been dying out -- to the great detriment of Labour and the Republicans. <br /><br />The frenzy created in August has resulted in ridiculously stringent airport restrictions as well as clearing the way (IMHO) for the easy passage of the Military Commissions Act, which outlawed habeas corpus, allowed the president to decide what is and what is not torture, and provided retroactive immunity for all the crimes committed at Gitmo and all the secret houses of torture set up by the CIA and their friends. <br /><br />We're seeing a miniature version of the same frenzy going on over the <a href="http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2006/12/derrick-shareefs-big-day-in-court.html">Derrick Shareef</a> case; now that he's been arrested and the media have made their noise, he'll vanish from view and the Bogus Terror charade can resume elsewhere, when the next useful idiot reveals his twisted (and probably planted) plan and gets busted without ever getting his hands on any weapons.<br /><br />Or at least that's my take on it. I could be wrong and in fact I have been wrong a lot lately. But I think I'm right this time.<br /><br />I've written quite a bit on the Rashid Rauf / Liquid Bombers story and if you don't want all the details then don't click here: <a href="http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2006/09/liquid-bombers-series.html">Liquid Bombers Series</a><br /><br />If you don't want a short summary of why the liquid bomb plot was impossible, then don't click here: <a href="http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2006/11/alleged-liquid-bombing-plot-revisited.html"> The Alleged "Liquid Bombing" Plot Revisited -- Maybe It Was Possible After All</a>.<br /><br />Finally, if you wish to avoid the subject of phony terror altogether, then <a href="http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com">please don't read my blog</a>.Winter Patriothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06966573231074972843noreply@blogger.com