No doubt, if you were not at home last night, you will by now have caught up with the bizarre story of how a print cartridge brought the world to a standstill.
I mean, I know the price of ink cartridges is criminal, but the response to someone having bought one was a bit over the top.
But seriously... I watched the story playing out like a bad movie on Sky News and - no disrespect to the channel - I did not believe a word.
We are meant to believe that some bogeyman or another is out to get us. Well, not us. Apparently. This time.
But the problem is, the timing was extremely convenient.
A couple of days after the bosses of British Airways and BAA go on record saying that it was about time we were treated like humans when passing through airports?
Oh, come on.
There's a saying about if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... then there's a good chance it's a duck.
There's also the story of the boy who cried wolf.
Somewhere between the two - or perhaps both in equal measure - I was left watching the movie version of reality playing out on Sky News last night and thinking: "I do not believe a word of it."
And I'm very confident that an awfully large number of people who watched that story playing out on their TV screen thought similarly.
After all, there is an election on.
And, after being lied to incessantly by those in positions of power for such a very long time, the more dramatic the story and the more it would be used to remove our liberties and freedoms, the more I find myself watching and thinking "what a crock of..." - ahem!
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See also:
Corrugated Soundbite - What Fun
An Individual Voice - Very Orwellian
Nothing 2 Declare - Intelligence Services?
Saturday, 30 October 2010
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The packages were freight on Fed Ex planes not passenger ones. So BA's stance still stands, but I wouldn't put it past the Obama camp to ratchet up the stakes in the Mid Terms
ReplyDeleteI share your cynicism to a point where I'd find all this funny, were it not so serious and were our freedoms not to be crushed further still in the manner in which we've become accustomed to.
ReplyDeleteI find it more than far fetched that a terror cell as "highly sophisticated" and able to hijack and pilot planes before crashing them with pinpoint accuracy (apparently they can. Bush and Obama say so, so it's fact!) would send unsolicited packages to small time synagogues in America.
As well as the imminent Obama-bashing at the polls coming up, there's an increasing need to "unite us all against the Islamic enemy". Yemeni-based terror threats were trotted out by way of an MSM bombardment at the turn of the year, followed by total silence and now this. I know someone who has visited the Yemen, who assures me the average disaffected Yemeni couldn't find their way out of a telephone box, let alone be actively involved in sophisticated global terror.
It is an absolute crock, isn't it!
Yeah, l did a piece about this farce at mine too.
ReplyDeleteTheres no-one actually saying they definitely were bombs. lt's all worded very carefully.
Strange how they flew an airplane with a suspected bomb into JFK airport. l don't think New Yorkers will be too pleased.
Interestingly they flew right past the former stategic airbase Loring ... it's located on the far north east tip of Maine near to town of Limestone.