Last night I dreamed my father had divorced my mother to marry his gay lover in California, who kept trying to fondle me. I awoke and thought, “Oh, I’m so glad I didn’t have another dream about work!” While you may have been enjoying a three day weekend, I went into the office on Sunday and started learning the ropes for my new job. Another girl started at the same time. In the movie Secretary, James Spader’s character tells Maggie Gyllenhall’s character at the beginning that his office doesn’t use computers, only typewriters. At my office we use only WordPerfect…
So, it turns out that some blogger has been paying a lot more attention than I have and has come up with a pretty impressive list of entrapped terrorist suspects. And all I knew about was Lakhani, but it appears he’s just the tip of the iceberg.
When the NY synagogue “terrorist” plot hit the news, I said, “This sounds awfully familiar.” It reminded of the story of Hemant Lakhani, a fellow the FBI hired to acquire an anti-aircraft missile for them, then sold him the very missile they asked him to acquire, and then arrested him for illegal arms dealing. It turns out the latest arrests aren’t much different. I feel a lot safer knowing the FBI is going out, convincing people to join an FBI-invented terrorist plot, then arresting them for it.