Goose Creek Terror Scare?
The righties are talking about explosives found in SC. But is it possible the only thing being shot off are their mouths?
The righties this morning are currently flagging a developing story out of my home state of South Carolina. Here’s the details thus far.
The FBI and the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department are investigating what they think are explosives found in a car in Goose Creek.
Police say part of Highway 176 in Berkeley County is closed, and traffic is limited to local residents around Mount Holly Road….
Once federal agents were brought in and analyzed the situation, an FBI-controlled robot pulled a bag filled with the suspicious items from the vehicle.
The two men inside the vehicle, which is reported to have Florida tags, have been detained at the scene.
Other news accounts toss about the words “explosive” and “suspect devices” quite a bit, while others emphasize that the men detained appeared Middle Eastern (a detail which has no doubt set the wingers Islamophobia all a-tingle and thus prompting the coverage). Some of the righties are also noting the location. Goose Creek is home to the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig where several high profile enemy combatants, mostly famously Jose Padilla, have been held before. This lead some to speculate possible jail break scenarios.
I’ll hold judgment until more details are available. It could easily turn out to be that the “explosives” found are nothing but an assortment of fireworks, which as anyone who has driven I-95 in my neck of the woods will know that advertisements for them are about as prodigious as pine trees. Stay tuned.
(X-posted at The Xsociate Files)
You may talk and sing and boast about your Fenians and your clans,
And how the boys from County Cork beat up the Black and Tan.
But I know a little codger who came out without a scar.
His name is Paddy Mulligan, the man from Mullingar.
Chorus:
The Peelers chased him out of Connemara,
For beatin’ up the valiant Dan O’Hara.
And when he came to Ballymo, he stole the Parson’s car,
And he sold it to the Bishop in the town of Castlemar.
Seven hundred fellers couldn’t match him.
The Chief sent out the orders for to catch him.
And when he came to Dublin Town, he stole an armoured car
And he gave it to the I. R. A. brigade in Mullingar.
Well the Peelers got their orders to suppress the man on sight.
So they sent for reinforcements through the county left and right.
Three thousand men surrounded him, they hunted near and far.
But he was with the I. R. A. in Johnson’s motorcar.
They came with tanks and armoured cars, they came with all their might.
Them Peelers never counted on old Paddy’s dynamite.
On the fourteenth day of April, well he blew them to July.
And the name of Paddy Mulligan makes the girls of Ireland sigh.
‘pat of mullingar’, trad.