The JFK Pipeline "Plot":
Another "Chilling" Example of Political and Media Hyperbole
There was no set plan. There was no financing. They didn't have any explosives
-- and yet government officials were quoted calling the amorphous plot
"one of the most chilling plots imaginable" that almost "resulted
in unfathomable damage, deaths, and destruction." And people wonder
why the public has become cynical about how the war on terror is being
used for political purposes.
Then we have fear-mongering presidential candidates like Rudy Giuliani
wasting no time laying the JFK plot and the Fort Dix plot at the feet
of "Islamic terrorists" -- raising the specter of Osama bin
Laden.
Michael Bloomberg, Giuliani's replacement as mayor of New York, took
a rightly dismissive approach to the JFK plot hype: "You can't sit
there and worry about everything. Get a life. You have a much greater
danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist."
