Have We Been Stung?
Sep. 17th, 2012 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribPreviously, I mentioned that I'd read and enjoyed Eric Frank Russell's novel Wasp. Not to give away too much of the plot, but in the book our hero, an Intrepid Earth-man, is dropped on an alien enemy-colonized planet and told to make trouble. The Intrepid Earth-man does this in part by hiring local criminals to assassinate people. The assassins neither know nor care why they are killing; they just want their money. Question - is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula being paid to cause trouble?
The scenario goes something like this - Nakoula is hired by a mysterious figure to make a movie. He, or somebody, later overdubs the thing, then translates it into Arabic. Our mysterious money-man then drops a dime on various hot-headed Muslim clerics who call attention to the movie. Whoever is calling the shots then uses the resulting rent-a-mob as cover to kill our ambassador.
Unfortunately for us, matters get worse. As I discussed earlier, any attempt to investigate the public front-man of this movie results in immediate protests from various Useful Idiots in the US. These protests are probably not enough to sway an election, but who knows? Stranger things have happened.
The scenario goes something like this - Nakoula is hired by a mysterious figure to make a movie. He, or somebody, later overdubs the thing, then translates it into Arabic. Our mysterious money-man then drops a dime on various hot-headed Muslim clerics who call attention to the movie. Whoever is calling the shots then uses the resulting rent-a-mob as cover to kill our ambassador.
Unfortunately for us, matters get worse. As I discussed earlier, any attempt to investigate the public front-man of this movie results in immediate protests from various Useful Idiots in the US. These protests are probably not enough to sway an election, but who knows? Stranger things have happened.
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Date: 2012-09-18 12:29 am (UTC)Did I get you conspiracy-minded?
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Date: 2012-09-18 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-18 12:54 am (UTC)Who benefits (is that supposed to be in Latin?).
We could suspect arch-conservatives. We could also suspect ... (da-da-du) Al Queda.
Consider - they get folks all riled up. More recruits. More money. This translates to power and useful idiots to carry our their fell deeds. Bozinga.