The RW has co-opted “Connect the Dots”. Result we lose liberties…. [View All]

[Junkdrawer]

The Let It Happen On Purpose (LIHOP) community coined the phrase “Connect the Dots” to counter a disturbing trend. That trend was that each damning piece of information coming out about 9-11 was considered and rationalized in isolation. So bureaucrats stopped Rowley’s FISA, Ashcroft refused to fly commercial because of domestic threats, no interceptors were sent up to investigate the hijackings because no-one could anticipate such a threat, etc. etc. We asked that you take all the evidence, “connect the dots”, and then consider the possibility that this government may have strategically ignored warnings.

But the RW and the mainstream media have adopted a different use of the phrase: Because of rules that handicapped cooperation in the name of civil liberties, mid-level FBI and CIA operatives were unable to “connect the dots”. Thus, the “solution” to the problem was to pass legislation that erodes civil liberties.

How could they do this? Because the thought that the Bush administration could possibly allow a terror attack has been deemed “unthinkable. And so the more unthinkable the LIHOP assertion, the more likely that the current scandal will boomerang and result in a loss of liberty. Want to make sure the current scandal sticks? Work to make your scenario believable!