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Edited on Fri Sep-08-06 07:54 AM by Virginia Dare
So I found myself in the middle of the Pentagon bomb scare yesterday, which hit right at the height of rush hour. The bus bays which serve 36,000 commuters per day were shut down between 3:30 and 6:00 because of a blue SUV with suspicious characteristics. My guess is the man driving it got lost and he is of Arab dissent. Supposedly, they didn't find anything harmful, but they did find "items of interest". He probably had a Koran in the car.
When thousands of commuters are thrown out onto the street in the middle of chaos by MP's toting automatic weapons and bomb squad goons, guess what? They're not scared. Being scared is the last thing they feel. They're pissed. They're irritated. They're cynical.
Children don't get picked up, dogs don't get let out, kids are left standing on soccer fields waiting for the coach. When you're worrying about these things, you don't feel scared.
And nobody there thought for a minute that there was any threat, if that was the goal here. Yes, I've grown so cynical about these things that I wouldn't doubt for a minute if the whole thing was staged. Flame me if you want. I'm just so tired of this crap.
Eventually, this administration is going to cry wolf just once too often.
edited for bad spelling
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