Everyone probably heard by now about the "small" bomb that went off in Times Sqare, New York yesterday. Well, today they are reporting that "letters were received by Congressional staffers with photos of the military center "before it was bombed" and claiming "We did it."
Well, what really scares me is when you think of this story in the context of this editorial in Common Dreams.
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Ms. Hartmann writes in Common Dreams that the November election "might not happen." I have been telling people for months that I don't think Bush will leave voluntarily, and I am not the only one. Recently, I started to think Bush would leave office (and not in a straight jacket but) voluntarily. After all, Bush tells us (well, told us in campaign mode) that the job is hard work.
Ms. Hartman writes about the Haliburton contract to build detention camps supposedly for immigrants (of course). And, she writes of the Executive Order that basically turns the whole country over to Bush in the event of "a catastrophic emergency, defined broadly as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions." Of course previous administrations also had emergency plans...." But, we are dealing with Bush and Cheney and Rice and Hayden and McConnell and a whole slew of other really disgusting people, if I can use that term.
Putting these 2 stories together I ask myself: will we see more bombings? And, if so, is this exactly the sort of "emergency" Bush is looking for? By the way, I, for one, do not believe the bomb that went off in NYC was the work of terrorists. Or, let me just say as Benazir Bhutto put it: whoever set the bomb is merely a pawn of someone much higher up.
I obviously don't have the answer, and I don't mean to cause paranoia but, like the rest of us, I will just have to wait and see.
I think Ms. Hartman does not mean to scare but rather to inform. Hopefully, I am doing the same.