Was there a plot?. I’m glad I don’t have to fly for a while, but I cannot help but wonder if we have yet another contrived “plot,” like the recent one in Miami involving a true gang that could not plot straight. We have been down this road before, and since past “plots” have turned out to be full or at least partial hoaxes, I have a few questions:
1. Is there an “agent provocateur” involved? (Lew asked that in an email, and also showed me how to spell “provocateur.”) In other words, is this something like what we saw in Canada in which an agent provocateur promised to get huge amounts of fertilizer for a bomb, something that would be impossible to do in the present climate?
2. Were the “plotters” using real explosives, or was this something that an agent convinced them would work, only to find out they were mixing something akin to Crystal Light?
I don’t want to make light of real plots. After all, we have seen what happened on 9-11. Had the feds arrested these people before they boarded the plane, would I have been among the ones declaring that the plot was a hoax? I’m not sure, but that is why I am asking these questions now. [LewRockwell.com Blog]
This is something I’ve been wondering about too. There have been enough fake plots that I’m automatically inclined to doubt reports of another. However, the fake plots in the past haven’t led to the kind of expensive and disruptive “security” nonsense that we’re seeing now. And, as William Anderson suggests, it’s entirely possible that there really was a plot, but with government involvement. The 1993 attempt to blow up the World Trade Center was certainly a real plot, but the plotters also had the FBI helping them.
For the moment I’m waiting for more information. The fake plots that have been sold to the media in the past have generally unravelled pretty quickly.
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