Why, say you need to postpone the election because the evil terrorists plan on disrupting it. We don't want to, but for the good of public safatey, we have to. We're the good guys. Honest!
Quoted from CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. officials have discussed the idea of postponing Election Day in the event of a terrorist attack on or about that day, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said Sunday.
Am I the only one seeing this as a very scary tactic to fix the election again get Dubya re-elected?
Other nice quotes:
Ridge warned Thursday that al Qaeda terrorists were planning a large-scale attack on the United States “in an effort to disrupt the democratic process.”
Keep those people nice and scared, Georgie-boy…
“We hold elections in the middle of war, in the middle of earthquakes, in the middle of whatever it takes. The election is a statutory election. It should go ahead, on schedule, and we should not change it.”
Nice to know I'm not the only one that thinks something is rotten in the kingdom.
Homeland Security's threat-meter might be at yellow (elevated), but my personal bullshit-meter is at brown (something really stinks in here).
I’ve had a sense since last fall that the Bush administration would declare a Red Alert in mid-to-late October, 2004. Not because of any terrorist threat, but because declaring martial law would give them an excuse to postpone or just plain cancel the election. I had hoped I was wrong. I would rather be wrong. But it's starting to look like they may be setting things up to do just that.
I'm not generally given to conspiracy-theorizing, but I just can't shake the feeling on this one.
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There's no way in hell the “treath level” will ever be below yellow (elevated); at least, not with Dubya at the wheel. Keep people scared, it's easier to do what you want that way.
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I'm not generally given to conspiracy-theorizing, but I just can't shake the feeling on this one.
Besides, it's not being paranoid when they're all out to get you :)
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