Are we being set up? [View All]

I've had this on my mind for a couple of days now. To me, it just seemed strange that the NYT would wait until the Patriot Act was being discussed before releasing the info on the secret NSA domestic spying violation. Perhaps they were trying to make amends for the series of Judy Miller columns that helped push the country into an ill-conceived war - I don't know - maybe that was it. Maybe they really were trying to help put the genie back into the bottle. But, the more I thought about it, the more it didn't make any sense. Since the majority of us regard the NYT as fish wrap (or worse) and complicit enablers of Bush doctrine, I started to look for more sinister reasons for the NSA revelation. I tried a couple of times to post my thoughts here - but invariably I just flushed them when it started to look like I had that tin foil hat on waaaay too tight (which may still be the case). Anyway, I was busy surfing some other sites when I stumbled across an article entitled "Why The Patriot Act Is Intended To Fail" that captured, succinctly, my suspicions on this matter. However, the article is posted over on Prison Planet which, I think, is not well regarded (did I read it was banned here?) - it was linked from another site which is how I managed to stumble onto it in the first place.

In any case, this little set of snippages from the article demonstrates my paranoid mindset:

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From all the indications we have studied it seems that the Patriot Act is intentionally destined to fail so that when the Globalists carry out a terror attack they can blame 'civil liberties advocates' for preventing them from keeping the general public safe and then reject out of hand criticism of all future police state legislation that they pass.

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Why do they need the Patriot Act to fail? Because if the Globalists carry out another terror attack right now, people will be inclined to say that the existing Patriot Act powers were in the hands of the government and they failed to protect us, thus discrediting the police state legislation.

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If for a few months the government can bemoan the fact that they don't have Patriot Act powers to protect the American people, at that time it would be expedient for them to set off the suitcase nuke or release the biological.....

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I consider DU to be an island of sanity - I can't tell you how many times the sharp edges of this crazy world get "rounded off" after reading some of the posts here - it's good to know there are a lot of people who share my feelings (perhaps not is this case, but most of the time).

So, I ask you - are the neo-cons setting us up? Are they deliberately trying to hamstring the Patriot Act so that, during the debate to "civilize" the Act, they can pull a LIHOP/MIHOP and finally get that martial law they've been hankering for?

Or, have I finally slipped off the edge and become dangerously deranged?