Election day fear factor

More evidence that the Bush Administration is trying to frighten citizens into unquestioning obedience. Bush and Cheney travel the country telling us to be afraid, very afraid. Time after time the Terror Level was raised as a distraction from bad news, bad news for the Administration that is. But underlying the distractions, are the tactics of control by fear; modeled on practices of Hitler and the Nazi's.

Little Evidence of Qaeda Plot Timed to Vote
By DAVID JOHNSTON and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: October 24, 2004

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - In early July,
the Homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, declared that credible intelligence showed Al Qaeda intended to launch a "large-scale attack" inside the United States to "disrupt our democratic process." More than three months later, counterterrorism officials in the United States and overseas say they are still concerned, but have uncovered little specific evidence of a plot timed to the election......

..."I've seen some analytical pieces from the bureau and the agency," said one senior American counterintelligence official, referring to election threat reports by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. "On a scale of one to a hundred, I'd give it about a two." .....
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