The whole "Big, Scary Terrorist Plot" hysteria has morphed into a running joke. The plots are created out of thin air and breathlessly reported.
The latest JFK plot isn't the first time this happened. Here is a short list of previous "plots":
- Lackawanna Six
- Detroit
- Virginia Paintball guys
- The tortured Abu Ali
- Jose Padilla
- Lodi, California
- Miami plot against the Sears Tower
- New York subway tunnels
- New York subway station
- “Liquid explosives” plot on UK to US flights
- Ft. Dix Six
But, jokes aside, here is something that should cause real concern but barely gets a mention in the media. You'll be hard-pressed to find much coverage of the Noonday (homegrown fascistic right) plot, but there was some cursory coverage in the NYT and a few other sites.
According to the New York Times:
"On April 2003, John Ashcroft's Justice Department disrupted what appears to have been a horrifying terrorist plot. In the small town of Noonday, Tex., F.B.I. agents discovered a weapons cache containing fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs and a chemical weapon — a cyanide bomb — big enough to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building."And this is even more worrisome regarding the Noonday plot:
"Mr. Krar's arrest was the result not of a determined law enforcement effort against domestic terrorists, but of a fluke: when he sent a package containing counterfeit U.N. and Defense Intelligence Agency credentials to an associate in New Jersey, it was delivered to the wrong address"Needless to say, this plot was very real (i.e. involving real weapons) compared to the fictitious ones manufactured by highly suspect FBI informants. The Noonday plot remains virtually unknown outside of Texas and barely received media coverage. Something wrong with this picture ?
Noonday in the Shade (2004)
Ashcroft Neglects Real Terrorist Threats Because of His Ideological Biases By Paul Krugman
US media, Ashcroft silent on conviction of right-wing terrorists in Texas
Conspirators built chemical bomb By Bill Vann
A clear indicator of the administrations misplaced priorities.
Protect the population ? Right.
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