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backscatter712

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4. Sounds like the Feds solved their own terror plot again.

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 08:36 AM

May 2012

That's their MO. They find a bunch of rubes that they can easily manipulate, press them to go along with a bomb plot, then make the bust, pat themselves on the back for solving a crime they created, and shriek on the air non-stop "LOOK! TERRORISTS! GIVE US YOUR LIBERTY, AMERICA! WE'LL PROTECT YOU!"

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Greenwald decries "fear-mongering orgy" over Yemen terror plot [View all] Marzupialis May 2012 OP

Now it's fear mongering get the red out May 2012 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author marmar May 2012 #2

Fear and wonder Dokkie May 2012 #3

Sounds like the Feds solved their own terror plot again. backscatter712 May 2012 #4

Yes. Poor Al-Qaeda, entrapped into a terror plot. nt msanthrope May 2012 #6

The biggest problem is the way the public is manipulated by this circus! backscatter712 May 2012 #7

Maybe you feel fear. I don't. I'm glad we penetrated AQAP. msanthrope May 2012 #10

I don't have any sympathy for the dopes who'd actually go along with a bomb plot. backscatter712 May 2012 #11

Not seeing in fearmongering in announcing we disrupted the group msanthrope May 2012 #14

It's the American People who are being "penetrated" whatchamacallit May 2012 #12

Thanks whatchamacallit May 2012 #8

"Orgy?" Jeez, Glen's really overdoing the Roman analogies...earlier in the week, he was comparing msanthrope May 2012 #5

glen, exaggerating? overdoing an analogy? nooooooo! dionysus May 2012 #13

Aren't you lucky it's Greenwald whatchamacallit May 2012 #15

The CIA = Bogeyman Production Inc. Now introducing new improved models. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2012 #9

Reminds of the time they bought shoes and clothes... kentuck May 2012 #16