Posted on 05/04/2007 8:15:18 AM PDT by SmithL
It gets worse. Traffic accidents wreak havoc, fires erupt in old buildings, trees fall and sinkholes collapse and birds die and Britney shows the world far too much of her labia as giant tanker trucks full of chicken fat overturn on a Midwest highway and everyone for forty miles around sniffs the air and thinks of rancid buckets of KFC.
Then the magic happens. The media gets ahold of the drama. It is spun and torqued and packaged and handed back to you like an unwanted gift, like that nasty polka-dot sweater you didn't want for Christmas, and everyone seems to lap it up like force-fed puppy dogs and of course in the never-ending wake of Sept. 11 that context invariably has something to do with -- say it with me now -- terrorism.
Oh my yes. Did terrorists cause the big fire at the shoe factory down by the Boise Savings & Loan? Experts say, "Um, no." Were terrorists involved in that 17-car pileup at the icy expressway in Colorado
...Doesn't matter. Terrorism is still a required ingredient in any major story of cultural disruption or destruction. Call it Karl Rove Disease, where a low dose of fear and dread is now commonly injected into every dire social event so as to justify everything from brutal wars to demeaning Patriot Acts and
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`nuf said
RYMB!
Destroying major SHIPPING and commuter/emergency response routes is a goal. Why else would they plot to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge?
Only a moonbat would extrapolate that desire to some kind of “glee” that people would be forced to ride public transportation.
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