Nine-eleven x too much...
I knew some of the people killed at the WTC...I also knew one of the people who were aboard the plane that hit the Pentagon. To top it off, I was driving past the Pentagon when it was hit.
But today, the fifth anniversary of that attack, I need to say...ENOUGH!!
Enough with the families who have become professional victims...you have been paid, with my tax dollars, for your husband/wife/son/father/lover/etc being killed at his/her/their desk whilst trading futures (or whatever)...this is not a particularly heroic way to die...in fact, it is not heroic in any sense of the word except in that it meets your need to be victimed...
The firemen and policemen who died in those towers were wasted...they were thrown away...by a city that would rather spend zillions on some other bullshit (take your pick) than on the radios necessary to allow them to communicate within the steel behemoths of the urban landscape. A city with too much territorial pissing going on between the FD and the PD to have someone actually be in command...so contradictory orders were passed that resulted in the deaths of good brave men...they were actually heroes...not the janitors at the WTC, here illegally and who families got tons of money for it...
STOP the damned wallowing...you are embarrassing yourselves and the rest of the country...you are supposed to be NEW YORKERS for Christ sake...there was a whole lot less wallowing in PA and Arlington (VA)...and they lost people too...and lets not forget our recent war dead...
The Blame Game...there is enough to go around...Bush didn't cause it...Clinton didn't cause it...(altho both contributed in some ways)..Nor did the NSC staff (contrary to what Dickie-the-dick says), or the DoS. The FBI and the CIA have never gotten along...the fact that warnings were missed is not new...Pearl harbor is a good example of how bureaucracies work...and that was more than sixty years ago...Thankfully, these bastards are a tad more forthcoming with eachother now than they were five years ago...
Lets move a few steps forward, shall we???
But today, the fifth anniversary of that attack, I need to say...ENOUGH!!
Enough with the families who have become professional victims...you have been paid, with my tax dollars, for your husband/wife/son/father/lover/etc being killed at his/her/their desk whilst trading futures (or whatever)...this is not a particularly heroic way to die...in fact, it is not heroic in any sense of the word except in that it meets your need to be victimed...
The firemen and policemen who died in those towers were wasted...they were thrown away...by a city that would rather spend zillions on some other bullshit (take your pick) than on the radios necessary to allow them to communicate within the steel behemoths of the urban landscape. A city with too much territorial pissing going on between the FD and the PD to have someone actually be in command...so contradictory orders were passed that resulted in the deaths of good brave men...they were actually heroes...not the janitors at the WTC, here illegally and who families got tons of money for it...
STOP the damned wallowing...you are embarrassing yourselves and the rest of the country...you are supposed to be NEW YORKERS for Christ sake...there was a whole lot less wallowing in PA and Arlington (VA)...and they lost people too...and lets not forget our recent war dead...
The Blame Game...there is enough to go around...Bush didn't cause it...Clinton didn't cause it...(altho both contributed in some ways)..Nor did the NSC staff (contrary to what Dickie-the-dick says), or the DoS. The FBI and the CIA have never gotten along...the fact that warnings were missed is not new...Pearl harbor is a good example of how bureaucracies work...and that was more than sixty years ago...Thankfully, these bastards are a tad more forthcoming with eachother now than they were five years ago...
Lets move a few steps forward, shall we???
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