Police: Plot to blow up aircraft foiled

This is clearly the latest in what's been a series of "foiled terror plots" where the government informant was running the entire "terror" ring.

The arrests were the result of a "covert counter-terrorist operation," police said.

Hint hint! This has happened multiple times the last few months in the US, the UK, and Canada, and I'm getting tired of it. They're currently saying that this terror cell had 21 people in it. I'd bet my grandfather's watch that that number is going to plummet in subsequent media reports, as that's what we've seen in all these other cases.

I suppose the good news about this trend is that the governments are too afraid to carry out real terror; they know that if they blow something up, it might backfire this time, as too many people have woken up to what they're doing. The mainstream polls are showing that extremely high numbers of people suspect government involvement in the attacks, like the Zogby polls. They're being more cautious, and busting all these phony terror rings to keep up the idea of an external enemy. Al Qaeda's gonna get you! Give up all your rights! Let us search your car at checkpoints! Drink extra fluoride! Don't question authority!

Maybe if they DO pull off terror somewhere, they'll point to all these phony busts and say, "see? We caught some of them, but we couldn't catch them all," and then use that as an excuse to start grabbing power and rights with reckless abandon. This could be useful to diffuse questions about whether governments can do anything at all do defend us from this terrorism, or whether all this newfangled tyranny is really helping.

Side note: It should be patently obvious that governments don't even care about you. They're not going to help you in a disaster, real or staged. Look at New Orleans. Did they bring aid? No, they showed up with their guns, to take the citizens' guns. Now New Orleans is a police state with troops on the street every time someone hears a gun or a car backfires. Hooray!