What Hell Hath He Wrought?

Shit. That’s all I have to say.

Shit.

This is the bust that Bush and Blair have been waiting their entire political careers for. All this time they’ve had people saying that their searches were illegal, that they weren’t allowed to have so much surveillance, that they were infringing on our rights as human beings living in a free society.

Well, now they’ve managed to cuff 21 people in the biggest terrorist plot ever conceived (according to Faux News, anyway) due to their meddling.

It was 9/11 times a thousand.

Jesus Christ. What does that do to us?

Well, now the government will be able to come into our homes, strip search us and our kids, take our personal belongings and leave without ever showing us any kind of warrant. They’ll be able to put nation wide curfews on us so that we can’t go out after 9pm without written permission from the mayor. They’ll be able to put cameras in our homes without us knowing. They’ll be able to put things in our water that will level us out and make us “less likely to commit violent acts.”

This is what Bush and his cronies have been waiting for for a long, long time.

Which brings this to mind: Mid-term elections are coming up. Bush’s approval ratings are at the lowest they’ve ever been. People are more against the war in Iraq than ever. The Israelis (one of our biggest allies) are committing their own terrorist acts against people who happen to live in a country with a large terrorist group on their border.

Was this bust a set-up? Did Bush’s mastermind (whomever that may be now…Rove, maybe?) find 21 guys to lay down their lives to save Bush career? Were the bombs real? Was there ever a real threat? Is this “terrorist plot” just a figment of the government’s imagination?

It’ll be interesting to see what the major conspiracy theorists come up with. I, of course, don’t have all the facts. No one ever will. This book will be shut tighter than the 9/11 Commission’s real report. They keep saying that there are 50 people who are involved with this plot. Will we ever see the other 29? Do we ever need to? I doubt it.

So, sleep tight tonight. And keep this in mind: I fear our government more than I fear any terrorist. I believe that our government can do things that a terrorist could only dream of. They have more money, more connections and more willingness to do it.

After all, it’s not God and the Promised Land they’re after. It’s their careers.