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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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20.12.04

The first argument against publicly speaking in detail about these things is the potential for harm in creating a false panic, or genuine panic prompted by false alarm.
We can simply point to the wide-spread poll results that say Americans are 44% in favor of restricting the rights of Muslims in the US.
Why?
There's no basis for that desire but the panic and false alarm created and maintained in the mainstream media to keep the average citizen afraid and in the dark and willing to submit to an authority that knows better about these things. Since the authority they submit to is who's doing what they're afraid of, it's a simple thing to keep them anxious and feeling powerless.
America(the US) has been attacked once in the last four years, and that one time is more and more redolent of intrigue. That one occasion, with its missing black boxes and conflicting testimonies, with its poisoned heroes and richly rewarded villains, has been used to whip the frightened and increasingly childish public into a state of constant anxiety. Panic. Fear.
There's no real reason for it, except that that fear weakens the country and the resolve of the people to be moral and a force for good in the world.
Instead we have an irresolute people whose material strength is used to energize an immoral force for evil in the world.
So being wrong about intrigue, now, is not a particularly dangerous thing, especially in the immediate time frame. It has danger, the possibility of cementing the distrust of anything that doesn't pour out of the television in simple lives, the possibility of losing credibility on this and not having it on the next, possibly more crucial, one etc.
The risk is small compared to the situation as it is already, and the danger of what's possible as outlined in the information in the links below. The first questions to ask are:
Where would you take this if you had it?
ABC? CBS? CNN? Your Congressman? The local tavern? Your mom? Your minister? The county sheriff?
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So here's this noise from the edge of things, and this little diagram, and the smell of something foul on the wind, coming from what's hidden in broad daylight, now.

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