No tinfoil here. Just a review of what actually happens.
There was some kind of real plot. Sure. There are terrorists out there and they're trying to kill people. They're bad guys and the police should stop them and the papers should report when they do.
The government is anxious to be seen as doing something about terrorism. They'll hype it. Of course they will. Nothing intrinsically wrong with propaganda, so long as it's not dishonest.
But...
There's some latitude about
when many arrests are made. It's possible -- by no means certain -- that this arrest was deliberately made today.
Regardless. Arrests are made all the time. That's fine. This was a real terror plot. Stipulated.
It's not the validity of the arrest or the fact of the terrorist plot that's questioned. It's the government response that's so obviously propagandistic.
It is three months before the midterm elections and there is now an Orange Alert.
Count the number of Orange Alerts in the six months prior to the 2004 elections.
Count the number of Orange Alerts there have been in the twenty-one months since the 2004 elections.
It's not a conspiracy. For it to be a conspiracy it would have to be nonobvious. This is right out in the open.