Domestic Propaganda

This is the most raw piece of propaganda I have seen yet. Shown just two-and-a-half hours before the debate, the day after the worst day for the Bushies since Abu Ghraib. How many times are they going to get away with this shit? This disc was found BACK IN JULY according to the news report. If there was even the remotest possibility of a threat shouldn't they have warned people immediately? And how convenient that so many "battleground" states were affected. My favorite lines come at the end.

"... security officials are fearful of creating more fear, but kids they say, will get used to it - as surveillance cameras become just as common as a swingset on the playground."

Four more years anyone? This segment is a security mom's wet dream. I wish all the people in foreign countries who wonder how Americans could support the lunacy of the Bush Admin. could see this. I don't think they realize the extent to which we are being propagandized. If they did maybe they might have more sympathy and less hostility.

Just as a precedent dig this: the FBI arrested a guy from Portland, Oregon in connection with the Madrid train bombing and claimed he was in possession of "spanish documents."

"During one raid on Mayfield's house, FBI agents took Mayfield's computers, modem, safe deposit key, assorted papers, as well as copies of the Koran and what they classified as "Spanish documents" — apparently Spanish homework by one of Mayfield's sons. (CBS News)

I feel sorry for the poor kid. He probably got in trouble for "losing" his homework. But even that's a more plausible excuse than saying, "but the FBI stole my homework!"