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Mon. May 07, 2007

When It Happens, You'll Know

It seems like over the past year that when anyone says “boo,” people rush to ask, “Terrorism”? As I wrote not long ago, “We’re sorry this country has reached the point where every odd smell in downtown Manhattan, every prank by some obvious web goober, every unruly woman on an airplane, or every jokester college student playing with dry ice ... is immediately construed as a terroristic act.”

Monday, it was a bomb that killed someone in the parking deck of the Luxor in Vegas, garnering bloggers to post headlines like “This Makes Me Very Nervous” and statements like “This incident may or may not have anything to do with al Qaeda terrorism.”

Let me clue you in, people. When/if Al Qaeda attacks us again … you’ll know. Beyond a shadow of a doubt. Immediately. Sort of like the morning of 9/11. It was plain to us all. There was no need for bloggers to post about how worried they were that this might be terrorism.

And there isn’t today, either.

In fact, every time you shout your scare headlines at the latest oddity in the news, you not only sound like the little boy who cried “Wolf,” you do the work of the terrorists. They want us to be scared. Scared of our own shadow. Why do you accommodate them so?

Since it apparently isn’t obvious to some, let’s state it clearly: the next act of Al Qaeda terrorism will not be “discovered” by a blogger. So knock it off, already.