Aardvark Daily

Please visit the sponsor!

Why you can no longer trust the media

The big news over the past 24 hours has been the alleged terror plot in the UK.

According to the mainstream media, a group of five suspected terrorists were caught in a forest clearing near Fairford air base in England.

The misinformation and disinformation associated with this incident is a perfect example of why the mainstream media has lost all credibility.

At first we were told, with some confidence, that police had stopped a terror plot involving five masked men and three white vans containing plastic containers loaded with explosives.

Those explosives were to be driven onto the air-base and used to blow up US Airforce bombers that had been operating from their in the USA's war against Iran.

All the news agencies carried reports that the plot was thwarted only when vigilant locals called the police to report the suspicious presence of those vans and a buch of men wearing black balaclavas. Apparently the local concerned initially tried to ring the military police at the airfield but the phone went unanswered.

This was clearly an embarrassment to the security of the base so we next saw reports that this group had been under surveilance by authorities for some time and that they knew about them before the public reported their presence.

Donald Trump even stated in an interview that these people were being monitored by UK and US security forces long before the events of the day.

So much of this just doesn't have a ring of truth to it.

Firstly, if this was really a terror plot and security forces knew that a bunch of terrorists were moving vanloads of explosives into a populated area, why didn't they act pre-emptively to reduce the risk to people?

Why, instead, did they only evacuate locals once the threat had been reported by a member of the public?

About 24 hours ago (as I write this), I floated the suggestion (on X) that perhaps these guys weren't terrorists at all. Maybe they were a gang of fuel-thieves who were simply trying to steal diesel from either the airbase or local farms.

That's a theory that has legs (IMHO). It now seems that the large plastic drums in the vans were empty and the vans were signwritten with a fictitious company "Fuel2You". What better way to reduce suspicion if you're pulled over on the road with a van laden with stolen diesel than to say "just doing our job officer"?

The final bit of evidence that seems to indicate this was nothing more than a failed fuel-heist rather than a terror plot, is the fact that all five of those arrested have now been released on bail.

Who in their right mind honestly believes that if this was a bunch of terrorists caught red-handed with vans full of high-explosives next to an airbase, they'd be let out on bail?

It's worth noting that another UK citizen is currently in prison on remand (without bail) because he simply slashed an empty inflatable boat that had dropped off illegal immigrants who'd crossed the Channel from France.

Unless something is seriously wrong with the UK justice system (and that may well be the case), I think we can draw our own conclusions as to the veracity of the huge number of click-bait headlines and all that misinformation the mainstream media has fed us regarding the five men and their white vans.

I never want to hear another politician or bureaucrat warning us to only trust the media.

Carpe Diem folks!

Please visit the sponsor!

Here is a PERMANENT link to this column

Rank This Aardvark Page

Change Font