So I have a funny blog about anti-mason programming on public access cable, but that’s going to have to wait a day or two.
Let me talk today about terrorists.
I call on authorities to arrest [US Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf][1], who is terrorizing Americans by claiming that the looney and implausible plot to *blow up* a gas main leading into Kennedy Airport was “one of the most chilling plots imaginable,” and that “the devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable.”
Just how unthinkable?
> Richard Kuprewicz, a pipeline expert and president of Accufacts Inc., an energy consulting firm that focuses on pipelines and tank farms, said the force of explosion would depend on the amount of fuel under pressure, but it would not travel up and down the line.
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> “That doesn’t mean wackos out there can’t do damage and cause a fire, but those explosions and fires are going to be fairly restricted,” he said.
(Quoted from [AP/MSNBC][2])
*Chilling*? *Unthinkable*? I believe that this is sufficient evidence that the US Attorney is guilty of terrorizing a nation. Because, otherwise, she’s simply too stupid to realize that setting fire to a gas main is what happens every time someone lights a burner on his stove.
Yes, the criminals that were arrested believed that they would “cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks,” but, of course, they would not. And luckily, they are under arrest. However, there are many other people who are just as dangerous and irresponsible as those that hatched this cockamamy plot. Uncritically, the AP reporter, Adam Goldman, [writes][3]:
>[P]ipeline and security experts agreed that such an attack would have crippled America’s economy, particularly the airline industry,…
without mentioning the names of these experts or exactly how setting fire to the pipelines would cripple the economy. But I will take it on faith that he did get some experts on record to say such things, meaning that Adam Goldman should be interrogated until we get the names of these terrorist “experts,” who claimed such fantastic, awful results, all in the name of terrorizing the public.
A more sober look a the plot comes from an [Australian newspaper][4]:
> But experts cast severe doubt on the practicalities of the plot. JFK airport, like other airports around the world, is fed by a series of pipelines that supply jet fuel and heating oil…. [S]abotaging part of the system would be highly unlikely to lead to a chain explosion. Also, jet fuel does not produce an explosive force unless it is under pressure or vapourised; and pipelines and tanks have safety valves to contain any mishap.
Those that hype this plot are doing **more** damage to the economy, to society, and to our safety than the plotters ever could have done. Lesson for terrorists: Get a job that has access to the media, and you can terrorize us 24 hours-a-day.
[1]: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nye/district/usabio.html
[2]: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18999503/
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070603/ap_on_re_us/terrorism_plot
[4]: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/jfk-airport-plot-foiled-151-and-flawed/2007/06/03/1180809336934.html
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