It's Terrorism Fever...Catch It!

Anyone else think that this whole foiled terrorist plot may be just so much election year hype? Was some plot foiled by British intelligence? It certainly seems so. But would you put it past our media to trump up some relatively minor bust in order to make the War on Terra seem more effective?

Now, I'd like to stress that I don't think our government or Tony Blair's neccessarily concocted this whole terrorist story. Mainly because they're not that clever. Bush can't manage to discuss foreign policy and eat at the same time, let alone propagandizing a false tragedy for the purposes of electoral fraud.

No, I think if anyone planted this story, it's clearly Paramount Pictures and director Oliver Stone. Think about it...The very weekend they're opening the big World Trade Center movie with Nicholas Cage, the world is shocked by another bomb plot hatched by al-Qaida's finest Imagineers. The attack was thwarted yesterday and then World Trade Center opened today. Now that's marketing.

I'm not sure whether some of Stone/Paramount's representatives simply falsified information about a planned attack on U.S. soil or whether they actually attempted to carry out a terrorist action in support of the movie. In either case, I think it's clearly going to far just to sell a film, no matter how important the subject matter.

Still, it's like Lenin said..."I am the walrus." No, that other thing...The one about looking to the person who will benefit most...In this case, Oliver Stone. Not only will interest in this near-trauma probably add $5-$10 million to his opening weekend B.O., it's a surefire concept for the inevitable sequel.

World Trade Center 2: Heathrow

Look for it in theaters, oh, I'd say about Summer 2009. We should all be psychically healed by then, wouldn't you say?