UK bomb plot is propaganda

British papers have reported that the "bombers" were no where near ready to perform their terrorist deeds. The people arrested in the UK did not have airplane tickets. Many of them did not have passports.

Even though a 12 year old boy without a ticket got on a plane in Gatwick, I doubt that a non-white adult would be able to get into an airport without passport or ticket.

So if the bombers were as far away from committing the crimes as the papers report, why were they arrested? What could these people be charged with? They were UK citizens. They committed no crime by not having a passport. They did not even have bomb making materials.

How better to frighten the public than to bust a terroist plot involving airplanes and mythical gel explosives? Now we give up more rights, freely, to fly. That bottle of water might be the makings of a bomb. That cup of Starbucks coffee might hide dangerous chemicals, other than caffeine.

Remember the shoe bomber, Richard Reid? We still have our shoes inspected years after that lout as busted.

Once we have given up a freedom, we seem to never get it back.