Manufacturing consent

[Tim May]

On Wednesday, September 12, 2001, at 01:32 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:59:57PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
>> This morning the local media here in Massachusetts were reporting that
>> a bag for the flight which fortuitously failed to get on the plane was
>> found to contain a Koran, "Islamic materials", and a videotape on
>> flying commercial jets. Clearly, someone who was already a commercial
>> pilot would not have needed the latter item.
>
> Maybe I'm being a little suspicious, but why in the world would a
> terrorist who doesn't want to be caught and doesn't need the videotape
> (can't watch it on the plane, realistically, I presume) any more take
> it on the plane with him?
>

If a car or hotel room had not been found with Arabic writings and 
tapes, it would have been necessary to invent the materials.

The CIA has an entire department which does nothing but manufacture such 
stuff.


--Tim May