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backscatter712

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7. The biggest problem is the way the public is manipulated by this circus!

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #6)

Wed May 9, 2012, 08:45 AM

May 2012

What this does is enable the feds to create a terrorist incident whenever they want, so they can keep a terror freak show on the corporate media. Every time the public starts stirring and complaining about losing their liberties, the Feds conjure another incident to quash the debate and fear-monger.

LOOK! MORE TERROR!

FEAR! FEAR! FEAR!

GIVE US YOUR LIBERTY AMERICA!

SUBMIT TO TSA CROTCH-SNIFFERS!

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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