How they do it
From Atrios:
Evil Plots
They keep reminding us that Bush’s illegal wiretap plan uncovered a dastardly plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge. Said plot involved bringing down the Brooklyn Bridge with blow torches. It’s rather like busting me for my evil plot to blackmail the world’s governments for ONE MILLION DOLLARS by threatening to send the moon crashing into the Earth.
While it’s indeed good that they stopped Atrios, let’s envision the converse:
“President Bush’s illegal spying plot against American citizens sent an attractive white mother to jail for crimes she didn’t commit.”
[Insert massaged narrative with whatever details can be semi-plausibly whooped-up.]
“Oh no, whewws my mom-my!?”
[insert 500 single-dip shovels of self-recursive punditry, pandemic to all media]
It’s ‘how they do it.’
Sorry, that would only elicit sympathy if the young, attractive, innocent mother was both A) a devout Christian and B) *missing*.
Contact your local, washed-up country music stars though, just in case they feel inspired to write some purple prose portraying her plight.
I wonder how the Babbitts would’ve reacted had Bush used Sept. 11th as a excuse to confiscate guns? I serious doubt we?d be hearing any of this “He?s just protecting us” or “It takes too long to get a warrant” bullshit
They actually said the threat was from “blow torches”?
Cutting the bridge down with “blow torches”??
Ok, call me the odd one out here, but at 50, and a former welder for 30 of those years, I can attest to the fact no one has used a “blow torch” since the 1920s.
Study the grammer, Skolnick states…I think he is on to something there.
I say a sissy conservative, never getting dirt under his fingernails, or getting shot at in ‘Nam, would think it “manly” to use “blow torch” as the threat.
I’d say worded like a former Male Cheerleader, and the sidekick 5 time deferrment Dick would use. Along with their wormtonguedrove.
They actually said the threat was from “blow torches”?
I can’t track down the first version of the story. I know that at some time you can find oxy-acetalene torch replacing “blow torch”, but I don’t know which one is the revision.
Of course these cables are 15″ thick, made of over 5000 strands of individual wire holding up the brooklyn bridge, so if you ever could get it cutting instead of just distributing that heat all through it the wires popping loose would likely decapitate you.
They actually said the threat was from “blow torches”?
I can’t track down the first version of the story. I know that at some time you can find oxy-acetalene torch replacing “blow torch”, but I don’t know which one is the revision.
Of course these cables are 15″ thick, made of over 5000 strands of individual wire holding up the brooklyn bridge, so if you ever could get it cutting instead of just distributing that heat all through it the wires popping loose would likely decapitate you.
Don’t forget, the dude was also mentally ill. Once he got to jail, he had to be medicated.
In related news, I recently heard a disgruntled 6-year old complaining that her field trip was “stupid,” and stating her intention to blow up the Statue of Liberty with bubble gum! Specifically, a 6-pack of bazooka.
I successfully derailed this plot, and am looking forward to my medal of honor. Should be arriving any day now.
Maybe they are attacking the bridge by secretly pissing on it, hoping to accelerate the corrosion process. Then they sit on the other side rubbing their hands together and saying “any day now, buaah ha ha!”
Well, granted, the task would have taken weeks to execute. A difficult task? Naturally. An impossible task? Not at all.
I think it’s rather chilling how far this little masterplan came along. When the NYPD busted into Lyman’s apartment they found all the equipment that would have been needed to bring the bridge down. I think it’s even more chilling how little the left seem to care. “Oh, it’s just one of those things. They never would have actually followed through with the plot.”
Well I hope to God you guys are right. If something of this catastrophic nature occurs on Obama’s watch because “torture is WRONG!” and all that, I wonder if you lefties would finally shut up.