Shahzad’s plot was stopped by a private citizen. It wasn’t until private citizens got involved did the government act.

Confirmed: NYC Bomber Not Linked to Tea Party

By Joy Tiz
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The mainstream media was dealt a devastating blow yesterday with the news that Times Square car bomber, Faisal Shahzad was not, as most of the fossilizing media had feverishly hoped, linked to the Tea Party movement. NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg hypothesized the bomber was expressing opposition to ObamaCare. Had he been right, capturing the terrorist would have been a daunting task indeed as two thirds of population hates ObamaCare.

State controlled media fixates on the crudeness of the bomb— “expertsâ€