A Little Noticed Aspect Of The Bomb Scare

Here is some interesting speculation from the World Socialist Web Site:

The timing of the suspected mail bombs and the consequent media uproar is remarkable. Less than two weeks before the election, all other issues have been virtually banished from public attention: Trump’s witch-hunt against immigrants, the US complicity with the savage murder of a Saudi dissident by that country’s medieval monarchy, the convulsions rocking the US and world financial system, the steady worsening of social and economic inequality.

A little noted aspect of Wednesday’s lockdown of midtown Manhattan, after the mail bomb was found at CNN, was the first real world activation of the police takeover of the cellphone system, with a text alert blasted out to anyone located (based on their cellphone GPS) within a certain radius of the Time Warner headquarters building. The National Wireless Emergency Alert System was first tested exactly three weeks before, on October 3.

The massive mobilization of local, state and federal police, as well as the intelligence agencies, and the all-out hysteria in the media, raise the following question: if such an incident took place on the eve of the election, or on Election Day itself, would the Trump administration invoke emergency powers to postpone voting in certain areas, or entire states, or even cancel the election altogether? And would the Democratic Party and the corporate media rally around the White House?

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/26/pers-o26.html

This is suggestive of what happened after the Boston Marathon bombing, and it is totally consistent with Rahm Emanuel's principle "never let a good crisis go to waste".

Or were these two crises MANUFACTURED so that the resulting government power grabs could take place? If they were, my first suspicions would fall on the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal and their continuity of government machinations. And I would find it hard to believe Trump had anything to do with those particular clowns, other than to be the patsy du jour.

Hmmm ...