Pixelated Semantics

Unreported News: WMD found in Texas, Terrorists Arrested

In May 2003, a sodium cyanide bomb capable of delivering a deadly gas cloud, along with at least 100 other bombs, bomb components, machine guns, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and chemical agents were seized by "authorities" in the USA, and several people are in custody. It is "a domestic terror investigation that made it onto President Bush's daily intelligence briefings and set off national security alarms among the country's most senior counter-terror officials."

The only US media that reported on this terrorist plot were "a few newspapers and TV stations in Texas". The perpetrators were not Muslims, but white Americans who were linked to white supremacist and anti-government militia. The threat posed by these 'homemade' WMD is no less than that posed by any number of fundamentalist Islamic groups, but clearly it makes for a whole lot less of a front page story.

Many premises for the current conduct of not just the US, but Aussie and British, and other governments, and the "majority" media, start looking very shallow, if attention is suddenly focussed away from "foreign devils". You can read all the available news coverage at The Memory Hole.

You may have cause to ask what use are restrictions on our civil liberties, wars around the globe, extra-judicial execution of "suspected terrorists", detention camps, news coverage used as propaganda, or missile defense shields, against a bunch of rednecks with WMD in their pickup, cruising to Ground Zero in the backyard? But is it really necessary to spell out the implications any further?

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