Well, it didn't take long for The Interloper and his cronies to politicize the averted terrorist attacks on flights out of the UK. The Brits stopped the terrorists…that means we were right to piss on the Constitution and completely destroy the global goodwill we had post 9/11. Hooray!
Salon provides a potpourri of ridiculous GOP propaganda and right wing blog hyperbole that supports their favorite shadow administration. Some may even say that the Republicunts have a right to gloat after averting a major crisis. Yeah, uh, not exactly.
Bush followers who exploit terrorist threats for political gain and to gin up support for the president's policies are not pursuing rational arguments. They leap at the chance to manipulate terrorist stories because they want to ratchet up the fear levels, precisely because fear obviates rational analysis and increases the willingness of citizens to cede more power and control to the government, to place more blind faith in political officials in exchange for a feeling of protection.
James Madison, in a 1798 letter to Thomas Jefferson, warned about this manipulative tactic: "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." And Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist Paper No. 8, observed: "Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates."
That's right – Federalist Paper #8. I don't mean to get all Civics 101 on you, but I quoted it. What up, bitch?
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