Terrorists? What Terrorists?

The news over the weekend was freighting - a group of home-grown terrorists were planning to ignite the pipeline that feeds fuel to JFK airport. If things had gone as they hoped, the entire airport would have been destroyed as well as part of Queens. JFK was targeted in part because of its name. One of the plotters was quoted as saying, "If you hit that, the whole country will be in mourning. It's like you can kill the man twice."

A bit of reality - their plot would not have worked. There are safeguards to keep a fire from spreading through the pipeline. The most they could have actually accomplished would be to blow up a storage tank or two. That would have been significant but nothing compared to what they wanted to do. The real issue is the goals of the would-be terrorists. They wanted to cause more destruction than 9/11.

There is a logical disconnect in the left when it comes to terrorism. They don't believe it exists. This pattern has been repeated many times. When a group of people was arrested in Miami for planning to buy guns and start shooting people, the left insisted that they were just teenagers talking big (most of them were in the same age range as army recruits). When Britain announced a plot to blow up airplanes with binary explosives, the left insisted that there was never any danger and suggested that the Bush administration had made up the entire plot to distract people from the real news of the day - Ed Lamont winning a primary.

So how did the left react to this newest revelation? The New York Times buried the article on page 30. John Murtha insisted that the plot was inspired by Bush's invasion of Iraq and that no terrorist would every want to hurt Americans had it not been for Bush's war.

Posters at Huffington went further. David Goldstein picked up on a comment from the New York Times article, " off the record, a federal law-enforcement official admits that the suspect seemed more like a "sad old guy who's got a lot of spit and vinegar in him." but admitted that there might be something to it in which case it would be best left to the police. Nora Ephron went a step further, suggesting that there was never a plot int he first place. A paid informer invented it in order to keep getting paid.

The common thread here is that we don't need to worry about terrorists. Why? Because the real enemy is Bush, of course! Bush invented the War on Terror in order to distract us as he set up a fascist dictatorship. The distraction was so successful that we haven't noticed it. As an additional distraction, Bush allowed the Democrats to take over Congress (the Republicans control the voting machines so they must have manipulated the election) and, for some reason, they expect BusHitler to turn over power at the end of his term.

Like I said - a logical disconnect. They are too busy worrying about conspiracies that don't exist to acknowledge the real ones.