Reply #9: I don't doubt it's true that they were plotting, not at all. [View All]

[redqueen]

I mean we'll wait for more info after all because the last time there was a huge terrorist scare in the UK they shot an innocent man to death in broad daylight... but yes, it's more than possible.

IMO, it is the management of the information that is suspicious. Clinton thwarted how many terrorist attacks? And now even the incompetent GOPranos in charge here have thwarted how many more? And in the UK? What I'm getting at is that it seems to me there's no need to shred the Bill of Rights or the Constitution to make us more safe.

So it's not so much that I automatically reject out of hand the idea that these suspects were plotting, it is also not that I don't think there are any number of terrorists plotting all sorts of things, it's simply that the way they release information, and the reasons WHY they release it in the way they do, are much more important to me now than doing *anything* to encourage *anyone* to hop on the "please, take our rights away, mister, we're SCAAAAAAARED!" bandwagon.