What a Joke Our Government Is!

I don't think I could find any more irony in the nickname I use to refer to The War Against Terror. That nickname is TWAT and that's just what I think of this TWAT--it doesn't mean twat, but the "terrorists" being arrested are twats. As in, little things that are no threat to us whatsoever.


So, last week you may have heard 7 suspected "terrorists" were nabbed by authorities in Florida. In [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-062306terror_lat,0,7448492.story?coll=la-home-headlines|the very first article] I read about the arrests Alberto Gonzales explains that these men were not an immediate threat. Here's a clip from that article at LATimes.Com:

Authorities arrested the suspects -- whom U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales characterized as "homegrown terrorists" -- after searching a warehouse in the impoverished Liberty City area north of downtown Thursday. They said that the men, ages 22 to 32, never presented any real danger.

No real danger? Well it's great that there was all this hubub then, wasn't there? Elsewhere in the article it says:

On Friday, Justice Department officials said the case was an example of the government's success at rooting out terrorist plots before they come to fruition.

"This case clearly demonstrates our commitment to preventing terrorism through energetic law enforcement efforts aimed at detecting and thwarting terrorist acts," Gonzales said at a news conference. He added that, "These men were unable to advance their deadly plot beyond the initial planning phase."

I think that's a lie--it's not that they were unable to advance their "deadly" plot--they were incapable of advancing any plot at all. The supposed ringleader of the group [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2242141,00.html|was the leader of a weird little mini cult] that referred to an old warehouse in a rundown area of Miami as "the Temple."

The father of the ring [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060624/ap_on_re_us/terrorism_investigation_profile_1;_ylt=Ams3M5HRl8TFUCj0nq3Ch4gTv5UB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl|described his son] this way in an article from AP.org and News.Yahoo.com:

"He's not in his right mind, I'll tell you that," Narcisse Batiste, 72, said in an interview from his home in Bunkie, La.

So, this dude is a nutter who only thought his plan was going to be deadly. Hang on--there's more from that first LATimes.com [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-062306terror_lat,0,7448492.story?coll=la-home-headlines|article] that is worth reading:

Indeed, the indictment suggested that they never even came in contact with anyone from Osama bin Laden's terror network. The only materials they received during the seven months they were monitored by an undercover informant appear to have been six pairs of boots and use of a digital video camera.

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The men were charged with conspiring to violate a sweeping anti-terror measure that makes it a crime to provide "material support" for terrorism, punishable by as many as 15 years in prison. That law has been used successfully against scores of defendants since the Sept. 11 attacks.

But this case was developed exclusively through information provided by the undercover operative, a circumstance that could allow defense lawyers to argue entrapment.

Some of the men had minor criminal records. One is a Haitian citizen in the United States illegally, five are American citizens and one was living in the U.S. with a residence permit. None was known to be an adherent of a militant Islamic factions, nor even of the Muslim faith. Relatives described some as religious, but drawn together to study the Bible -- not the Quran.

These guys aren't even Muslims!!

Another thing they are not is WHITE. Which is why you're hearing about them at all. See, if they were white, like [http://thepete.com/canada-catches-aq-wannabes-but-what-about-us-terrorists/|Demetrious Van Crocker] or [http://thepete.com/us-terror-that-media-forgot/|those white supremacists from Texas], the CNN and the Fox News would ignore the entire story.

So, in conclusion, it's obvious that the US government is pretty much CONSTANTLY lying to us about anything and everything connected to the War Against Terror and Iraq (and even Afghanistan, really).