Sieze of David
A local Miami news program gets footage of the inside of Narseal Batiste’s warehouse. It all proves nothing one way or the other. Richard Cohen and Matthew Yglesias take the Administration to task for hyping the arrests. Matt writes
Obviously, one of the things terrorism is supposed to do is, well, terrorize people. The actual risk of dying in a terrorist attack is very, very, very low but terrorism is scary in a way that, say, the risk of getting of dying in a random car accident isn’t. One of the things the government needs to be doing is trying to keep people reasonably calm about the general security of the United States (while, of course, focusing on preventing truly catastrophic attacks). Instead, Bush’s impulse is always to do the reverse — blow things out of proportion and scare people.
Yes.
Comment by Wild Pegasus —
June 28, 2006 @ 11:57 am
”The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken
- Josh