Terror Alert Raised

I heard about this on the radio last night on my way home from work. Strangely enough someone changed the presets on my radio to AM and tuned it to this wacky program that can only be described as an apocalyptic, over-the-top fundamentalist newspeak organ of the Bush administration. The only person who might have done something like this is a part-timer who does janitorial work, has a borderline IQ, and from what he tells us spends his days as a virtual shut-in absorbing Rush radio and regurgitating his message to anyone who'll sit long enough to listen.

The degree to which the media has saturated his consciousness and resulted in his robotic actions reminds me of a story. There's an Iowa town that some years ago enjoyed a fair amount of national fame due to a celebrity visitor by the name of Doug Henning. You might recall Henning was a very popular magician who caused a bit of a stir when he exchanged wedding vows in Fairfield, Iowa, then an emerging center for the followers of Marharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation. According to this Chicago Times article;

Fairfield and tiny Vedic City--Iowa's newest city, incorporated in July 2001--represent the TM capital of the United States.

I have nothing against TM'ers other than I doubt their claims of levitation and one other thing that is the point of my little story. When I was doing my nursing clinicals in mental health I had the opportunity to do a case study on a client from Fairfield. He had been living 'on his own', subsidised by a government stipend, and according to our conversations this was something the TM community was acutely aware of and in my opinion, capitalising upon. They talked this man into, or convinced if you will, giving a large part of that check to them in exchange for what he described as small, unpalatable meals in their dining facilities and basically left him on his own without a support system.

In my opinion there are certain groups in our society that are completely vunerable to people like Rush Limbaugh much in the same way they were Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker. The same way they are in Fairfield, IA in the hands of certain TM'ers. Shut-ins, physically and mentally, looking for support who are taken in for their money then abandoned.

The only thing I found interesting about this alert, besides the alleged intercepted e-mail, are the targets. California, New York and Boston? The coastlines?

If this is a credible alert, the news should be how we are completely unprepared for another attack. If that fact isn't what scares you, if you are in fact scared, then the Bush administration has worked its magic well on you.

From my e-mail;

If you heard today's show, you'd know that 6,000 screeners were let go from the airports. Homeland Security hasn't had any funding that WE the people can count on, and now this.

Alerts, secret meetings, failure of our systems to do their jobs and yet no accountability, no one punished, fired, etc. Allan Wood covered it pretty well on todays show.

What's really changed for us since 9/11? Do YOU feel safer?

Until we get answers instead of plastic & duct tape and more FEAR we are all being taken for one HUGE ride.

Meria

p.s. today's show rocked with 9/11 information, especially on Georgie's "interesting day".

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