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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 21:32:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 19:24:31 +0800, Sylvia Else wrote:

> On 02-Jan-25 2:00 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>> Is what 'they' said at the outset. Now it emerges he had an ISIS flag
>> in his truck at the time! No wonder fewer and fewer people are trusting
>> the legacy media. This is why it's so important to have citizen
>> journalists mobilised and fact-checking what's really going on when
>> these incidents occur. I don't suppose the rather embarrassing presence
>> of the flag would have been revealed otherwise.
> 
> For years the conspiracy theorists were telling us that governments were
> using the threat of terrorism to take away our freedoms.
> 
> Now the conspiracy theory is that governments are hiding the existence
> of terrorism from us.
> 
> So which is it?

Both. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter and the 'bad 
guy' changes from year to year as circumstances demand. Most people's 
memories don't go back far enough to notice and 'The Press' - who should 
be exposing these inconsistencies - are pointedly ignoring them.