a bumpy road ahead

[gurdonark]

Amazing synchronicity, isn't it?

In May, trial balloons are floated repeatedly about how we might one day face an instance of a weapon of mass destruction in the US, "not tied to any specific incident". Today we learn that in May, the government arrested a man accused of having a plan to set off a radiation device in a major city.

Things are just getting odder. It's going to be a very challenging time. At least four contradictory thoughts/accusations/fears/declamations of courage arise in me, at once, because we are in uncharted territory, and I don't have a novel to which to compare this situation.

Comments

[fabulist.livejournal.com]

I tend to keep going back to Orwell--1984's got a lot of chilling parallels to our current zeitgeist. The declaration of a permanent war was the basis of that scary tale, too.

managed news

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Managed news always worries me. Managed news which is not particularly well managed, and which NONE of the media note was managed really worries me. The reality of the situation, which is dangerous, of course, worries me most of all.

Big Brother wouldn't have needed all that thought control if he'd just had enough corporate cost cutters driving the journalism out of journalism.

[procrastinatrix.livejournal.com]

According to the BBC news this morning, he didn't have a plan, but was "considering having a plan"

precisely

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

That's what makes it a real fog, all right.
I know they're managing something, but it's impossible to tell if (a) it's a clear and present problem, which they wanted to delay revealing or (b) congressional subcommittee hearings into the poor coordation pre 9/11 are the reason for this revelation. I see now why people frequent those odd internet political gossip sites.