The natives grow restless

Leave it to a main$tream British paper to ask the right question about an American terror incident.

...The revelation of Abdulmutallab's background has confounded terror experts. Dr Magnus Ranstorp of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College said that the attempted bombing "didn't square".

"On the one hand, it seems he's been on the terror watch list but not on the no-fly list," he said. "That doesn't square because the American Department for Homeland Security has pretty stringent data-mining capability. I don't understand how he had a valid visa if he was known on the terror watch list..."

First answer: the son of a wealthy Nigerian finance minister, it is evident there is nothing you can't buy from the American government in a Free Market economy.



Then on the other hand, one of the best selling movies this season is about the type of depredations the Companies under their different managements have been engaged in for the last 400 years or so.

With an increasingly cynical America embroiled in two Company wars and sycoophants trying to drum up popular jingoism while they attempt to rationalize expanding it to a third front, I think it likely someone, somewhere wants to terrorize the pants wetters.

They're going to have to really scare them, because there are fewer and fewer of them each day, and other terrors the plunder of this world has unleashed.