Active lefties have known for a long time that the GOP has no problem with using any means to gain power. Granada, Panama, the October Suprise, even 9/11 are in part or in total examples of their immoral willingness to do so among many many others. With the Sadam capture, now being hinted to have quite possibly been a preplanned event in some European media we got a wakeup call to be prepared for what is to come pre-election.
The question is what the new october suprise will be, and how we respond. We know some of the plans for a next Bushco term by the far right. Invasion of Syria, Iraq, a draft et al. But its unlikely they'll let this see light before the election. Indeed talk among the right about a new draft and other invasions has been firmly hushed after initial leaks.
Many of us expect a 'suprise' capture of Bin Ladin.. most likely dead. It would be extraordinarily inconvenient for the GOP for him to be captured alive and.. talking. The right has tight ties with Bin Ladin and family among other things. But how do we respond to this? One way is for the footsoldiers of the left to start getting hints of it to the media. The media is very compliant with bush but the one thing they love above all other things is to appear "in the loop".. too have insider information. If they know we expect this to happen and they begin to expect it themselves (cynicism is the one shared value of american media) it might actually hurt bushco. Imagine if we had preempted Reagans secret dealings with Iran over the hostages and even had a congressman or two leak that they expected just that.
Another possible october suprise would be a massive terrorist attack at home or abroad. It would have to be very close to the election of course and very risky. But to put assisting such a thing or merely allowing it to happen past the right is naive. We seem to not realise that these forces are the very same political forces that empowered people like the brownshirts and events like the burning of the Reichstag to come to power. These are not the moderate conservatives we are used to dealing with
Some will of course say i'm a conspiracy nut.. but recent history has borne us out. How do we prepare? And what is their most likely scheme?