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Liberals Enabling Nuclear Terrorism Lowell Ponte Valencia, a suburb north of Los Angeles that is home to Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park, disappeared this week under the magic mushroom cloud of a terrorist nuclear weapon. This happened Monday night on the Fox Network television drama "24." And it made media liberals furious not at the very real prospect that such an attack could happen, but at the possibility that this drama might snap some Americans out of the hypnotic stupor the liberal media has spent years Svengali-ing us into with relentless left-wing propaganda. Keith Olbermann, whose weeknight show tilts so one-sidedly to the partisan left that the Federal Election Commission should count it as a multimillion dollar campaign donation by MSNBC to the Democratic Party, was outraged. This episode of "24," Olbermann opined, was designed to keep American anxiety high to increase support for President George W. Bush's foreign and domestic policies. Joining Olbermann's ideological attack was his show's guest and fellow left-wing ideologue Robert Greenwald, creator of the documentary "Outfoxed," a propaganda smear against the man behind Fox TV Rupert Murdoch. Think of Greenwald as the left's "other Michael Moore." How far left is Greenwald? He is co-founder, with radical actor Mike Farrell, of the anti-Iraq War organization Artists United to Win Without War, which is closely affiliated with the Democratic Party's ultra-left auxiliary MoveOn.org. Story Continues Below
Greenwald's one-sided documentary smearing Fox featured, among other lefties, media scholar Robert McChesney. But somehow it never identified McChesney as having been an editor of the explicitly Marxist journal Monthly Review or as the current director of its tax-exempt Monthly Review Foundation. Olbermann and Greenwald agreed Tuesday that depicting a terrorist nuclear attack against the United States was so far from reality that no one should take it seriously. Unfortunately, they are wrong, as I learned long ago while working on high-tech terrorist threats in the think-tank community. Terrorists, at least in theory, have long possessed the knowledge to fabricate a nuclear weapon. The collapse of the Soviet Union and disappearance of many of its aging suitcase A-bombs has made their black market sale plausible. Terrorist-supporting nuclear rogue states such as North Korea and, coming soon, Iran might use Hezbollah or other terrorists in a Volkswagen van or small yacht as their delivery system. In our age, where little men can wield megaweapons capable of killing millions, such a terrorist attack could destroy much of New York City, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Seattle, or Miami. The U.S. would attempt to identify this nuclear weapon's maker by its unique isotopic and other byproducts "fingerprint," but we would have no indisputable missile or bomber backtrack to prove who attacked us. North Korea could arm Muslim terrorists with a nuke with the "fingerprint" of Pakistan's weapons facilities. This could undo our ability to deter a nuclear attack by threatening retaliation. The terrorist nuclear attack depicted on "24" is entirely possible. If and when such an attack happens, remember that the liberal media told you to "fahgettaboudit." preventing any thought on your part that might persuade you to support President Bush's war on Terror and its surveillance of potential terrorists and terrorist communications entering the United States. Listening to this self-annointed Olbermensch's partisan eagerness to smear and silence anything that might politically benefit Mr. Bush. But one wonders if Olbermann and his comrades have forgotten the 3,000 Americans killed by terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Do they remember the attack on the Pentagon, or the destruction of the World Trade Center towers that once stood not far from his MSNBC studios? Does it concern Olbermann that New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. three of America's most liberal cities are almost certainly in the top tier of American targets for any terrorists likely to acquire nuclear weapons? Ironically, President Bush might already have thwarted a terrorist attack that would have killed Olbermann and thousands of Manhattanite media Bush haters. When the liberals achieve radical billionaire political Daddy Warbucks George Soros' stated goal to drastically weaken the United States in the world Olbermann will celebrate the Democratic Party dominance he craves. And shortly thereafter, as a mushroom cloud rises above the radioactive pit once called Manhattan, the no-longer-thwarted terrorists will celebrate. After the Olbermanniacs enable a nuclear 9/11, what will happen to our civil liberties amid the chaos and crackdown that follow? Or this terrorist holocaust might decimate New York City with a different kind of cloud. Only days ago Manhattanites complained of a stench "like natural gas" in their air. Natural gas is odorless, which is why gas companies perfume it with traces of a skunk-like scent to alert users when gas leaks. Someone might have unleashed a canister of this potent perfume to study where winds carried it and to awaken lethargic New York City liberals to the potential danger of terrorists armed with airborne germ or chemical weapons. The Department of Defense during the 1960s and 1970s carried out more than 300 open-air tests simulating such weapons. Mock germs or faux poison gas were released in subways, along turnpikes, and in many other locations including the White House to study their spread. A "harmless" germ in one such test may have killed hospitalized patients in San Francisco. Imagine terrorists with VX nerve gas, an "insecticide for humans" so potent that when a bit got into the air in 1968 at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, sheep were soon dying as far as 50 miles away after ingesting as little as 10 molecules of the stuff. Is this horrifying chemical hard to make? No, a college sophomore in chemistry could make bathtubs full. Secret? No, we and the British published the recipe. Expensive? No, it would cost as little as $5 per quart. One quart, optimally dispersed, theoretically could kill more than one million people. But let's not bother Keith Olbermann with grown-up facts and dangers. He's busy throwing mud pies and playing childish partisan political games to help his Democratic Party teammates win.
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