Pacific Views

Another day, another terror plot.

I see from reading today's NY Times that the plot du jure jour is an alleged scheme to bomb the transportation system in New York and New Jersey, including the Holland Tunnel. This, of course, comes only a few weeks after the feds arrested the Keystone Cops plotters in Florida, who were supposedly going to bomb the Sears Tower.

Given Dubya's low approval ratings and his administration's past record of using government power for partisan ends, it's pretty obvious (to this magpie, at least) that these 'plots' have more to do with need to prevent the Democraticfrom gaining control of one or both houses of Congress in the fall elections than they do with any real threats to public safety. You can bet that we're going to see a bunch more terrorist plots 'exposed' between now and November 6.