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California couple harassed after Fox News links thier home to Islamic radical

08.27.05 (12:20 pm) [edit]

A couple is being protected by police after their home was wrongly identified on Fox News as belonging to an Islamic radical.

After the report aired on Aug.7, people have shouted profanities at Randy and Ronnell Vorick, taken photos of their house, and spray-painted "terrorist" (misspelling it "terrist") on their property.

"I'm scared to go to work and leave my kids home. I call them every 30 minutes to make sure they're OK," Randy Vorick said.

John Loftus, a former federal prosecutor who appears on the Fox News segment "Inside Scoop with John Loftus," gave out the Voricks' address during the broadcast.

He said, however, that the home belonged to Iyad Hilal, whose group, Loftus said, has ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London.

But Hilal moved out of the house about three years ago.

Since the day after the broadcast, police have patrolled the Voricks' house, and have kept a squad car across the street. Police Capt. John Rees said the department is "giving special attention to the family to make sure they're safe."

The couple sought a public apology and correction.

"John Loftus has been reprimanded for his careless error, and we sincerely apologize to the family," said Fox spokeswoman Irena Brigante.

Loftus also apologized and told the Los Angeles Times last week that "mistakes happen. ... That was the best information we had at the time."

The FBI has launched an inquiry into the activities of Hilal, a grocery store owner who is allegedly the U.S. leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has been banned in parts of Europe and the Middle East.

Hilal, 56, is apparently not suspected of any terrorist acts, but FBI terrorism investigators want to know more about his and the group's activities.

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Comment: This is the stuff of vigilantes, of taking the law into your own hands. Imagine broadcasting the address of someone, even if he was connected to a bombing. Isn't it the role of the police to handle such a case?

But the man identified on Fox "News" is not even suspected of any terrorist acts, and he no longer lives in the house.

Mr. Loftus, acting as one of far too many in-house vigilantes at Fox "News", moves from the usual ring-wing hate rhetoric to hate act when he gives out the address. To do such a thing is to incite his listeners to get involved, and, after years of calling liberals traitors who should be shot for supporting the "terrists", what kind of emotion do we expect to be produced when Loftus falsely declares a real, bone fide, "terrist" is living in California and broadcasts where to find him? A fear-primed public will terrorise the innocent victim. It's like clockwork.

And all it takes it one crazy to go further than spray-paint or insults and decide "to deal with them terrists" himself for an innocent man, woman, or child to die.

Sure, Loftus apologises.

"Mistakes happen. That was the best information we had at the time."

Sound familiar?

"There are WMD in Iraq. Saddam purchased uranium from Niger. Saddam was behind 9/11. The people living in that house over there are terrorists. Mistakes happen. Get over it."

But here, we know, or at least have an idea that it is very highly probable, that the London bombings were the work of British intelligence, MI5. We know that people of Middle East, Central Asian, and, in the case of Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian, descent are targeted as the patsies in order to stir up racial hatred, distrust, and fear. The propaganda whipped up by Fox "News" and its ilk since 9/11 is generating negative energy, and that energy will have to be manifested one way or another. It will express itself.

Stepping back and looking at how the scenario has developed, it even looks as if it was planned:

First, 9/11. Galvanise the population into hatred and anger towards Muslims, Arabs, and other from the Middle East and Asia.

Second, play on the great threat to the US from these forces. Make the population feel that they could be anywhere, even your neighbour.

Third, attack people who disagree by portraying them as the lackeys and patsies of the "terrorists". Portray them as do-gooders who don't understand the real world, who don't understand that the enemy will stop at nothing to conquer us, and that, therefore, we must respond in kind or be annihilated. Build up the rhetoric over a period of years, taking it up one notch at a time, until the link "dissenter=terrorist" is automatic.

Fourth, arrange an economic crisis in order to increase the pressure on the population. Arrange it so that people feel that their very way of life is under attack, not just in words, but by turning the screws ever tighter.

Fifth, at the same time, insist that everything is going well. In this way, individuals who are not making ends meet will internalise their problems and say "If the economy is doing so well, then I must be the problem."

Sixth, choose the moment for the fatal blow. Arrange it so that it can be blamed on the chosen target, in this case the Arabs (terrorism, oil), and allow the public to give vent to their anger, fear, and hatred to take out any internal opposition at home.

In another synchronous moment, we have just received the following from a member of the QFS. He points us to this recent statement from the people at urbansurvival.com, a group with web bots that patrol the net analysing data to get a sense for current tendencies and how they might develop. They write, in a piece on Cindy Sheehan:

What's so amazing to us - verging on mind boggling - is that while our technology doesn't get the precise presentation of the future, it does get the general outline close enough so that we know where to follow along and what to cover. Emotionally, we're not taken by surprise, either. We're pleased as hell that the next run should give us insight into the huge emotional tension starting to build now and which the time-piercing technology reports is scheduled for release around the first week of December.

This feeling of emotional tension is also what we are reading from our daily browsing of the Internet, though we have to resort to our own senses and aren't relying on web bots.

There is a feeling of "something's got to give".

And that ain't good.

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