London Beat Rocks: Terrorism, Revenge or Finely Orchestrated PR Tactic?

Originally penned Friday, July 1, 2005

PM Tony Blair quickly announced that today’s bombings of public transport in London was terrorism. But was it?

It’s easy to cry “terrorism” these days. It is a household word used daily anymore. The Oklahoma City bombing was that way, too. (Why do I keep referring to that?) Oh, how terrible. It must be terrorism. Foreign terrorism. With Oklahoma City, we quickly put our collective foot in our mouth when we indeed found out that two US citizens inflicted the tragedy.

Sure. In some ways, the London bombings are terrorism, no matter who did it or why. It certainly inflicted terror in many commuters today and caused London to stand still for a while. So, why did this happen? You really think it is some European “al-Queda”? Really? I am going to give you two other scenerios to ponder.

Scenerio One:
The day after London was declared the place for the 2012 Olympics, a major component to the Olympic games—public transportation—was targeted. Is this coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.

I know what you’re thinking. Sure, it took a group a while to plan such an attack, but it also took a long time to plan a bid for the 2012 Olympics, too. After 9/11, New York City heavily vyed for a chance to host the Olympics and win back the trust of the world’s tourists to visit their city again. Paris was also in the running for the 2012 Olympic games, only to be outdone by their competitive neighbor to the north.

These attackers knew that the Olympic commission would show favoritism toward London, and knew that their fair city would not be selected. A quick and decisive attack on the newly announced winner of the 2012 Olympics would get the Olympic Committee’s attention to the weaknesses of their selection and may get them to change their minds on the choice.

Scenerio Two:
Two of the world leaders at the G8 summit in Scotland has their #1 mission to be the battle against “terrorism.” How fitting, indeed, to have terrorism hit right after the G8 summit begins. Especially since the G8’s current top two goals are tackling global warming and aid to Africa (hey, wasn’t that Bob Geldoff’s mission in the 1980s??).

The terror attack on London today is fitting to change the G8’s discussions and focus instead on Bush and Blair’s terrorism campaign. Oddly enough, I can see how global warming and African aid are somehow linked to Bush’s war on terror. I hope you can follow me here:
1) Global warming is to reducing emissions in vehicles to reducing oil and fossil fuels consumption to reducing dependence on Middle East Oil to reducing Bush’s finances and reducing Bush’s allies, the Saudis.
2) African aid is to availability of yellow cake is to making WMDs is to claim war in Iraq. (Ok, don’t go there, you say.)

Do you see the tendency and need to orchestrate some type of ploy to change the topic at the G8?

Ok, alright, let’s just say that it truly was from the European al-Queda.

Scenerio Three:
Yup, they sure did it, the European al-Queda. They have been infiltrating European countries and changing the make-up from Christian to Moslem for at least a decade now. It is all a part of their plot to take over the world, first discreetly as they bring their Middle East families and move to northern regions, including Denmark and other Scandinavian countries that offer climes vastly different from their own.

These countries start figuring out that, hey, Muslims are now the second largest religion in the country, they are taking us over, and we need to change our immigration policies so that we don’t lose our traditions and identity. The European al-Queda goes into stage two of their plot to take over Europe and the world.

Stage two begins with the bombing of London, concurrently with the G8 summit and the announcement of the location for the 2012 Olympic Games. (Side note: The European al-Queda plans to take over the world in time to host the 2012 Olympic Games in battle torn Jerusalem where the games will take on a more barbaric twist. More of that to follow.) This stage continues with more bombings in other European hot spots, until the whole of Europe and most of America (no bombing in the USA necessary since we are already stripping ourselves of our own freedoms now) bows to their every whim, which will be a clandestine event where most of the world will not know that the European al-Queda is behind it all.

And then, stage three, covert Russian and Chinese government forces come public with their joint exercises with the European and Middle Eastern al-Queda groups. Come to find out that it was the Russian group, in a wish to continue the new cold war, wanting to get back at the USA and their allies that truly instigated the London bombings. With four para-military groups at the four corners of the world, they are able to corner any freedom-loving population and easily take them over.

Stage four is set with the 2012 Olympics, relocated to Jerusalem, the center of hot-bed activities on Earth, and now the center of the new Muslim nation. This holy city is inundated with the victors of the final world war and a feast of military prowess as they pit their enemies together in battles to the death in very twisted Olympic-style games.

Armagedon. Apocolypse. Muslim freedom. Far-fetched. Whatever you want to call it. This third scenario foreshadowing is mostly in jest, but in some ways, anything could happen. We, as a naeve society, never thought all the events of 9/11 and thereafter were possible on September 10, 2001.