To assist in the attempt to make everyone nervous, the AP agreeably published this featured article today, which was likely written by any one of the Public Relations firms the bush administration keeps on retainer, at our expense. (You know things have gone all wrong when you find yourself paying someone to lie to you).
Yes, it looks like news, but it isn't. It's propaganda. Imagine that. PR firms keep experts on staff that are ex-corporate media types and professional copy writers and they provide propaganda services to clients who are too unlikeable to show their faces in public. With clients like Exxon after the Valdez spill, and now the bush administration, PR firms have their work cut out for them.
The following PR fact may surprise you. In the movie 'Toxic Waste Is Good For You', (an expose' of the PR industry), they stated it is now proven that a full 50% to 75% of ALL corporate news media is in fact not news at all, but the skillfully crafted product of pricey PR firms. That's both in print and on the air. At least half of what you read in the paper is propaganda. It is likely to be even more than half.
Regardless of who wrote this article, the entire thing is nothing but a fairy story. It was supposed to be a scary story, but it's just too silly. Join me as I pick it to pieces, won't you?
"Threat Notes Mention Bush"
"An engineer at a nuclear power plant has been charged with sending threatening letters containing a powdery substance to a country club where president bush is scheduled to appear Tuesday for a republican campaign event.."
First, I would just like to point out that Americans get threatening letters every day of the week. Like from the IRS, and the power company, and the landlord, heck from all over the place. And THOSE threatening letters are serious. They really can mess up your life. So forgive me, but I did not grasp at my heart and go pale upon reading this. Did someone get a paper cut or something when they opened these letters up? I mean come on folks, it goes with the territory. The bottom line is, the guy mailed a letter. Period. It hardly calls for a swat team.
Next, the obligatory "powdery substance" left me flat as a pancake. Yawn. No one can get their hands on anthrax except the military. We all know that, so my guess is, there was no powdery substance because it's just too asinine to play "anthrax fake out" games with the president of the United States.. No one is going to do that unless they have the IQ of a baby fly, (or the government pays them to do it and supplies the anthrax). This guy is an engineer, he's hardly a moron. Maybe he included a free sample pack of Splenduh, which can't be any more of a threat to bush than it is to the American public who are eating the horrible stuff without being informed that it's a neurotoxin.
Third, it's hardly a stretch of the imagination that there are people in this country who are so sick and tired of bush and his failures and lies that they're pretty darned ticked off. But I gotta ask you, how dangerous really is a guy caught in the act of mailing two letters? Nuns mail letters. So do Quakers. 'Though we know bush and team are afraid of Quakers, so I guess people who mail letters must freak them out pretty bad too. What can I say? Pathetic.
"The letters contained threats to Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Doolittle", according to an FBI statement.
Who the hell is Doolittle? Do they mean Dr. Doolittle? Is he in town?? I like him! He was so cute in that movie. So, how did engineer-boy know to include Doolittle in these supposed threats? Does he just happen to know who bush's contacts will be while he's in town? Does he know all the country club employees by name or what? And by the way, could you please define "threats"? Because bushco thinks a terrorist is someone who writes an article, or has church meetings to talk about peace. Who knows what he'd consider threatening. Maybe sneezing. Or excess punctuation.
"A federal affidavit said that Braun has sent a total of 51 threatening letters since the 2001 terrorist attacks. The letters threatened the lives of the president, Cheney, First Lady Laura Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld", the affidavit said.
Let me get this straight. You're telling me that this guy sent 51 freaking letters over the course of SIX YEARS? And it never occurred to them until NOW that he might be dangerous? Apparently they didn't find him to be all that dangerous the first 50 times he wrote. I seriously doubt there was one single threat in any of the letters he mailed, and I also doubt he sent 51 letters, but even if he did, so what? Maybe he believes in feedback. In this day and age when wearing a tee shirt gets you thrown in jail, I have a hard time believing that this guy could have written so much as one threatening letter without a thundering muscle-bound black-hooded swat team busting his door in, ransacking his home, taking his computers, and confiscating his flour and sugar on the grounds he was using it to make WMD on his home barbecue grill. It just doesn't add up folks. This here is pure bull-dookie.
"Each of the letters contained a written threat, usually death by some kind of WMD agent (anthrax, toxic chemical poison, radioactive dust or improvised explosives) and some unknown, white, powdery substance, or items simulating a possible letter/package improvised explosive device," the affidavit said.
The white substance "usually" turned out to be baking soda? My eyes hurt from rolling them. We already know he didn't threaten anyone or he'd have been toast a long time ago. So all that stuff is made up. Fabricated. Pathetic. And again with the powdery substance. Which they claim, turns out to be baking soda for the 51st time in a row.
