Reply #165: Thinking like me can be hazardous to your mental stability...

[warren pease]

Hey Wiley -- You're doing great research. I'm just connecting a few dots, some of which you put out there in public for the first time.

I didn't pay much attention to this story when it broke, partly because I had no understanding of the complex and "foolproof" procedures and protocols and redundancies in place to prevent just this kind of thing.

And the more I read from Rick and Hoot and Seemslikeadream and you and others, as well as those posts from active and retired AF flight line personnel and B-52 crew members, the scarier things got.

I'm at the point now that I'm convinced this was a black op conceived and ordered at the highest possible levels -- which would be the President of Vice himself, the skankiest Dick in the universe -- to accomplish two objectives:

First, swiping one of the warheads to build a suitcase nuke to use on a very blue US city in a blue state, which would scare the living shit out of this cowardly bunch of manipulated dipshits Americans seem to have become, while validating all the recent hogwash about heightened terror threats and satisfying the perverse desires of GOP nut cases and their pundit mouthpieces for another 9/11 to "save" the presidency and the party. The city should be a port to preserve the legend that all it would take is a motorboat and a briefcase to wreak massive havoc. It should also be disposable in that there are no strategic industries headquartered there and it contains a minimum of high-end GOP campaign contributors. Which brings me to my own city, Portland OR.

There's nothing on the east or gulf coasts that meet all those criteria (New Orleans being too devastated to bother with and Louisiana not blue enough). Seattle, SF and LA are too vital to what's left of the economy, and all host major corporate headquarters; San Diego has too many military who might come in useful in the ME soon; and you don't want to screw up Arnold's rep, since he could be prez one day when that irrelevant old piece of 1787-vintage paper is finally torn into neo-confetti. Portland, on the other hand, is about as non-strategic as it gets. Bluer than cobalt; no major corporate headquarters; not vital to the national economy; bunch of unapologetic lefties, and so forth.

So Portland is the obvious choice, unfortunately for me, my friends, family and cats.

And the second objective? Merely start WW III by nuking alleged Iranian uranium or plutonium enrichment sites, thereby pissing off all seven Muslims who were still apathetic, as well as the Russians, the Chinese, India and Pakistan -- all of which are serious nuclear powers and might get a little testy about the US fucking around with thermonuclear weapons in their various spheres of influence.

The only checks on this hideous plot were three whistle-blowing AF officers who knew this was so completely beyond the pale that it could only have come from very high up the food chain, most likely the white house fascists. And they remembered that when they took their military oaths, they were to the Constitution, not to a sleazy bunch of plundering, rapacious domestic terrorist wingnuts whose only allegiance is to money and power, and the application of both to inflict as much death and misery as possible.

These guys should get Medals of Honor; they'll probably get a court martial, hard time and dishonorable discharges instead.

My, my, that coffee after dinner seems to have been a mistake. I probably could have said all that in a couple of well-designed sentences if I weren't caffeined half way to the asteroid belt.


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