Big news, breaking news. The
NSA has intercepted or overheard Al-Qaeda terrorists “chattering” about an
imminent major strike on American or European targets. High alert is ordered,
and as many as nineteen embassies or American outposts in the Mideast or North
Africa are shut down as a precaution. Among other claims, the major news media
says the threats are specific enough for caution, yet still somewhat vague and
nebulous. Hmmm, that’s crack reporting – specific yet vague.
A new, younger
generation of Al-Qaeda terrorists are said to be even more diabolical and
fanatical than their forebears, going so far as to surgically implant
explosives in the bodies of suicide bombers.
(This new generation may
have a chip on its shoulder because the U.S. has killed or murdered so many of
its fathers, uncles, brothers, cousins, mothers, sisters, and so on. You kill
us, we kill you, forever and ever, amen.)
Yemen is the epicenter of
this Al-Qaeda upsurge. The U.S. has a long history of intervention in Yemen,
with clandestine boots on the ground, CIA agents skulking around the capitol,
and drones soaring through the sky. We’ve killed so-called militants in Yemen,
as well as a fair number of innocents, plus one very well known American named
Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son. Boom, dead: father and son. The Americans went
to great lengths to make it appear as if the kid was a budding terrorist,
though as Jeremy Scahill reported in his recent book, Dirty Wars, the younger
al-Awlaki wasn’t a terrorist at all – he was just a teenaged boy who wanted to
spend time with his father.
Is it my growing paranoia
or is the timing of this heightened security threat unbearably convenient? The
political class and the public have responded to whistleblower Edward Snowden’s
disclosures with anger directed against the Obama Administration and the
national security state.
Suddenly, people are
talking about the NSA’s domestic spying program, the agency’s insatiable
appetite for trivial information, and how government officials have been forced
to admit – grudgingly, of course -- that they have been lying to the American
people. The U.S. government is pissed off, and making threats against countries
from China to Bolivia, and the spying program is under intense scrutiny. The
NSA is in dire need of some positive press – and what do you know -- just like
that the NSA has used its awesome technological powers to foil a devious plot
by the evil terrorists.
You don’t think, nah, no
way, that the heightened alert is a pile of steaming horseshit cooked up by our
best and brightest in the corridors of power…our government wouldn’t lie to us,
would it? They wouldn’t use their powers to concoct some phony-baloney
terrorist threat and make the NSA look like a cowboy in a white hat, riding in
to protect us from the bad guys, would they? Our honorable government wouldn’t
exaggerate the threat from a ragtag force that the Obama Administration has
repeatedly told us has been decimated by JSOC raids, assassinations, and
“surgical” drone strikes, right?
Right?
What’s that fishy smell
hanging over Washington D.C?
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