NO MATTER what they call it — “public option”, “consumer option”, socialism, fascism — the end will be the same: more control in fewer hands. It’s been coming for two thousand years, but we know who wins in the end.
WHILE THE world watches the Balloon Boy story, we take a look at a few other things happening behind the scenes. In Iran, a homicide bomber killed 31 people in an attack on the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Iran blames the US and the UK, which is to be expected, but we note that ABC’s Brian Ross reported two years ago that the CIA was at the very least encouraging and advising Jundullah, the Al Qaeda-linked Sunni militant group that’s claimed responsibility for the attack.
THE TITLE of tonight’s show is a reference to the conspiracy investigated by journalist Danny Casolaro, a scheme was so vast and complex that Casolaro called it “the Octopus”. Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in West Virginia in August of 1991, his wrists slashed 10 to 12 times. His death was, of course, ruled a suicide.
