Comments | andrewducker: Question Everything

andrewducker

Question Everything

Aug 18, 2006 16:11

Should you be the kind of person who ever feels sceptical about what the news/government feeds you, I highly recommend you read:
1) This piece about the difficulty of actually making the "liquid explosives" that were supposedly going to be used in the recent plot.

2) This piece, which rightly points out that None of the alleged terrorists had made ( Read more... )

terrorism, 1984

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octopoid_horror August 18 2006, 15:18:42 UTC

I think that if anyone is actually shocked or surprised by that last link, they should actually be mocked openly in the street for being so stupid and possibly locked up for being so naive.

It's like I said - terrorism is great for governments. Every few months, you can just announce that you foiled six terrorist attacks, but you can't tell anyone anything about them. Even though you foiled them with no fuss at all or media coverage, and then when you get something like this, it brings the country and the media to a panicked halt, even though nothing actually happened or, arguably, was going to happen.

octopoid_horror August 18 2006, 15:20:43 UTC

Also, look at what you can't take onto a plane....

So some terrorist is going to use tweezers, a cigarette lighter and a sandwich to take control of a plane?

Even MacGuyver would have trouble doing that....

rparvaaz August 18 2006, 15:56:58 UTC

But Jack Bauer can do it. I'm sure...

octopoid_horror August 18 2006, 15:58:35 UTC

My first suspicion, on hearing that you cannot take items like the above onto a plane, was that Macguyver had somehow gone rogue.....

rparvaaz August 18 2006, 16:04:51 UTC

Should I know who Macguyver is?

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loveandgarbage August 18 2006, 15:26:54 UTC

Thanks for gathering these together. Fascinating. The comment at the start of the MNBC broadcast is something that passed me by - the arrests were at the request of the US government.

Perhaps it's time for a repeat of The Power of NIghtmares.

octopoid_horror August 18 2006, 15:30:02 UTC

You also haven't actually read 1984, as I recall ;-)

andrewducker August 18 2006, 18:05:16 UTC

I have read the first third. And I've seen the play.

And I lived through it! (Ok, I was 12, but it still counts)

laserboy August 18 2006, 20:59:10 UTC

Blimey! Read the rest. I've read it many many times and highly recommend it.

andrewducker August 18 2006, 22:32:56 UTC

I wasn't really enjoying it, to be honest. Thought Brave New World was much better.

I'll give it a go again at some point.

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octopoid_horror August 18 2006, 15:37:23 UTC

I'm curious.

At the start, police said it was an "al qaeda style plan". The tabloids of course, immediately blamed evil Osama and his cronies, no surprise.

Then it went a bit quiet and no one linked them directly to Sinister International Terrorist Organisations.... but on the BBC today I noticed that it is being referred to as an Al Qaeda plot.

When did that come out?