Here's the thing:
Getting back to my reaction to this terror 'hoax' story out of Florida (the beginning of which you can read in my post from 9/14) the administration said this was a GOOD example of how the new beefed-up American security works. A good example? How could this be a good example? Do I sound like Bill O'Reilly yet? Am I intimidating you? I think this is a good example of just how BAD everybody involved could possibly handle a supposed threat. As I said before, Shame on Eunice Stone for mindlessly calling the authorities before either confronting the Arab men who were allegedly discussing plans for an attack, or thinking about the situation for five minutes before she deemed it appropriate to call the cops (remember that she wasn't in a dark alley here, she was in a diner). And Shame on those Arab dudes for making whatever jokes they were making. But to their growing credit, the latest reports coming out are calling into question the 'fact' that they were even making jokes after all. According to some sources they were coordinating car travel plans, and when they allegedly mentioned 'having ENOUGH to bring IT down' they were referring to MONEY and a CAR not DYNAMITE and a BUILDING. Incidentally, another piece of information that seems to be shifting the circumstances of this story is the allegation that these men ran a tollbooth, which presumably is why they were pulled over in the first place. According to an NPR report, they actually paid for the fucking toll after all. So I may have to correct my standing Shame On Them.

Anyway, now I'll address the authorities: They are stupid fuckers too. They are stupid because they didn't scrutinize this call a little more, and I won't recap what obvious considerations they should have gone through before they shut down the goddamned highway for an entire day because I already did that (see 9/14). Well, that part was easy, and I don't suppose I have to do much convincing to make everybody who reads this believe me when I say that the authorities are stupid. Now we can dovetail into the media situation. When the police started giving their little roadside press conferences they kept repeating the same stuff: The men had run a tollbooth, they were Arabs, and they had 'attitude' and were initially uncooperative, refusing a search of their car by police. I got the feeling the cops were throwing all this character sketch information out to cover their asses and make it seem as though these Arab men were 'up to something,' because deep in their powdered-sugar brains they had a suspicion that this was COMPLETE BULLSHIT. What do either of these pieces of information have to do with a terror threat? And it seems like the media received this bullshit story with the same open arms as everybody else as it filtered through the annals of idiocy, from the Miss Stone, to the cops, to the networks, and nobody stopped for even a second to think about the feasibility of it all. In the beginning at least, it looked like there might have actually been something ominous going on. But then the details started leaking out.

The press soon dubbed the story a terror 'hoax,' which seems to be how this episode will go down in history. But if this was a hoax, my question is this: Who was the hoaxer and who was the hoaxed? The implication seems to be that these shifty, beady-eyed Arab men were the evil hoaxers, making their sinister jokes and scaring the shit out of this poor God-fearing stupid white woman who had her emergency speed-dial ready. And by extension, the Arab men had played a joke on the cops, the media, and finally, on us, the public, who had to endure this story for several days' worth of headlines. But I'll tell you what: I don't fucking laugh at jokes that aren't funny and I certainly don't fucking blame the comedian because I laughed at a stupid joke, you catch my drift here? The only one's who were hoaxed in this situation were the Arab guys (American citizens I might add) who were detained for 17 hours, and arguably, the American public who had to pay for the incompetence of the goddamned authorities. And the hoaxers were most definitely Miss Stone, the police, and the media: the people who are supposed to be in charge of filtering what jokes are worthy of laughing and what jokes are not. AND THEN, after the cat is out of the bag what do they do? They pat themselves on the back for a job well done. They spin it to look like this is the way things are supposed to go. Good job you fucking imbeciles! You just wasted a shitload of my money, demonized some innocent people, blew up their luggage, caused countless people to be late and stranded, and for what?