Malkin: Would You Rather Die or What?

This is almost getting to be funny. Check out this post on Crooks and Liars referencing a column by Michelle Malkin where to justify Bush's warrantless spying on American citizens, she passes along a fake news story about Arabs buying 60 cells phones to be used as detonators, a "plot" stopped by an alert clerk. Her conclusion? We Are All Homeland Security Agents Now.

This has all the earmarks of the kind of disinformation campaign the right is known for (e.g., Reagan's welfare queen who was not an actual person, but a "straw man," used to justify his reactionary welfare policies).

Malkin, cunningly, is trying to put every American clerk's body into motion as a defender of the body politic, thereby casting a large segment of the polis into the role of posse. I can only hope that we non-clerks can something to prevent non-terrorists from engaging in non-terroristic activities, too.