it's election time so heeeeeeeeeeeere's a terror alert!!!

[spanone]

koinkydink?

like clockwork



http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/29/security.concern/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

[gateley]

1. The 'experts' on MSNBC are stressing that this was discovered because of INTELLIGENCE

work. Another DUer just posted that we should be making a big deal out of Obama keeping this country safe for two years.

[Bozita]

7. Looks like the job prospects for "terror experts" are on the upswing.

It's been tough for them in recent months.

[sally cat]

11. I agree that it does bolster the safety under President Obama notion.

[lunatica]

2. What is it? It looks like trash taken out of the trash bin

[Myrina]

3. ... it looks like a 3rd grader tried to build a TV ...

:shrug:

[spanone]

5. that's the pic that cnn had on their website...looks like junk

cnn: The suspicious package from Yemen had wires and a circuit board, a law enforcement source said.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. "and traces of white powder".

OMG !!!!!! white powder AND wires....a 2fer

[TheWatcher]

6. What is it? It's called Propaganda.

It's called, be good little pant-shitting sheep and be reeeeaaaaal afraid of everything we tell you, so that you'll ignore everything we're actually up to.

America The Cowed.

Just More Trick Or Treating, courtesy of the Fake, Ongoing, "War On Terror".

[Individualist]

13. Exactly.

Fear has always been one of the favorite tools of governments for keeping the populace in line.

[leftstreet]

10. We won't know until Colin Powell presents it to the UN n/t

[jeanpalmer]

21. reinvention of the mousetrap

see the pincers on the right...

[HipChick]

4. so let me get this straight...Why would you make sure the origin is from Yemen

when you have contacts in UK

tick tock

call me jaded

[Pathwalker]

8. At leaset they're taking your thread seriously.

Not telling you your tin foil hat is too tight.
No, it's not a coincidence, IMO.

[Lugnut]

9. My thoughts exactly.

I must be jaded or something.

[toddwv]

14. Looks like the circuit board from an old cell phone

with some phosphorous based substance across the keypad connections.

[Subdivisions]

15. Image looks photoshopped to me. n/t

[ddeclue]

24. I believe it probably is from a cell phone..

there appear to be two "RF cages" on the board - metal boxes that enclose radio frequency generating signals. The only other identifiable feature is a small "button" battery.

[Arkana]

16. What the hell's that?

Looks like something I pulled out of the back of an old subwoofer last week.

[TheWatcher]

17. THAT, my friend is the face of Nuclear Winter.

If you aren't familiar with the Nuclear Capabilities, or even just the catastrophic explosive properties of a "manipulated" circuit board or Toner Cartridge, you need to educate yourself.

They are keeping us safe from invisible bogeymen, and here you are all indignant and skeptical about it.

If it were up to you, the Terrorists would WIN!

Stop Hating America, and get back into a soothing Lee Greenwood/Charlie Daniels Haze of fake patriotism and jingoistic, drooling mania THIS INSTANT, before I have to call Homeland Security!

:sarcasm:

[Arkana]

23. Actually, I'm an IT guy and I can attest to the WMD capabilities of a

toner cartridge. :evilgrin:

[TheWatcher]

25. Was it anything like this?

Oh, wait, that's mass destruction TO the toner cartridge.

:evilgrin:

[deminks]

18. Boo.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. Do you think they have any

Fox News Staff in Yemen? I mean if you can't report the news, may as well make stuff up..even if that means creating it from scratch.

[jeanpalmer]

20. Every now and then

you need a terror alert so the terrified will voluntarily give up their SS.

[TheWatcher]

22. Many around here seem to love it when it's their "Football Team" That does it.

They cheer like fawning school girls that have just seen Superman in action for the first time.

If Superman were actually "real".

Kind of like these Terror Alerts. no?

Our country is turning into an asylum on BOTH sides of the Political Spectrum.

This is getting very frightening.

[Bluebear]

27. +++

[grahamhgreen]

26. And a bin Laden video to boot!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

28. I think "it's election time so here's an attempted terrorist attack" might bea more accurate summary

I have yet to see a shred of evidence that this was anything other than what it seems.