July 24, 2004, Be Afraid. Be Mucho Afraid.
David Galland writes this week's entry for our weekly visit to Pravda (where we often go, to find news about here you can't seem to get from here, as our "fair and balanced" media's attention is captivated by reality television and shit), telling us of a report in the Tombstone Tumbleweed to the effect that among the over 5,000 "non-Mexicans" picked up and detained by border patrol officials for illegally crossing the border into Arizona include numerous Arabic speakers. Among the "non-Mexicans" are men (its always men...) believed to be of Syrian and/or Iranian descent (two of the top 5 terrorist sponsoring states, for those keeping score). Homeland Security Department officials, will not, of course, confirm this (that might scare people legitimately, by telling us of a real, actual threat, as opposed to vague threats just designed to stir up anxiety for political reasons, such as non-sensical threats that A.Q. would attack the highly fortified conventions, rather than its usual "soft" targets).
Tombstone, Arizona, besides being home to the O.K. Corral, is pretty close to the old fort that houses... the army's intelligence school. It would be another A.Q. coup if some of its low tech operatives could simply walk in and blow up that particular facility, now, wouldn't it? Or, once in the United States, who knows where these particular miscreants (who, if nothing else, entered the United States illegally) intend to end up. Hey- how about the Los Alamos National Laboratory? Maybe the A.Q. terrorists could help Los Alamos find those disks it keeps losing... Los Alamos can't be all that far... or, hey, the cities in Arizona, like Tucson down near the border, or Phoenix, or... you get the idea...
Interestingly, DHS is considering employing some rather high-tech air-craft for that part of the world, a bit more serious than you would use to pick up campesanos looking for some farm-work. Which leads one to believe that someone important (Tom Ridge?)
knows the problem. Of course, it won't get him more budget funding for, say, more border patrol officers, or a decent fence or shit. No-- gotta have those tax cuts, or the economy will collapse... (no point in mentioning that its kind of going nowhere anyway...)
The nation's motto these days seems to be "Don't Mess With Texas." It apparently, didn't say anything about Arizona... Just one more thing to scare the crap out of you...
Comments
Leaving your knowledge of southwestern geography aside, that's scary stuff.
(I went to the U of Arizona in Tucson. :)
Posted by Linkmeister at July 24, 2004 01:43 AM
I don't get it. You have the sense to "be afraid" yet you remain a left-leaner. If you had any real sense, you'd change parties, back a winner, and cash in.
Remember, wieners, even liberal ones, are still cooked in dirty water.
Posted by No doubt, Bush in 2004 at July 24, 2004 09:58 PM
Crap T.D.
Don't tell me Granny is going to have to jump up and get vocal again.
It is just too hot for my ancient brain to function correctly.
I was happy to see Bush imploding nicely on his own. So I was planning to sit under the trees down by our mini-garden, under the chemtrail-skies, sipping a mint julep and seriously pet a few cats and dogs .... BUT ... it is beginning to look like we may go to a serious ORANGE ALERT and I guess I had better stay inside and get my duck taped.
It is just too depressing. I saw a "focus group" televised on CSpan last night and the uninformed state of American citizens gives me a headache. Granted, to be informed, a person must transit the globe via internet to find anything other than canned event and spin reporting ... I guess we Americans cannot find the time.
That's ok though, because our attention will be riveted once the "new terror attack" occurs. The Repubs can suspend elections, declare marshall law, call in FEMA ... and guess what, the holding pens are being prepared as I type in Boston and New York ... for the unruly, of course.
I am fairly curious exactly what disaster has befallen Los Almos to shut the place down. Something must have gotten loose out there ....
Whatdayathink?
Gran
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