[Austin-ghetto-list] Atop the Ruins

[Frances Morey]

Jaxon,
It sounds like an instant urban legend to me, and I'm the gullible type. On
this, the most photographed site of destruction on the face of the earth,
and given the emotional climate in NYC, these posers would have been torn to
shreads in short order. 
Dan Rather did note that there were some people assembled on nearby
rooftops, awaiting the destruction, who cheered when the first plane hit.
Surely this points out that a plethora of persons were aware of the
destruction in advance and somebody in the so called intelligence community
sould have heard something about it prior to the event.
Yet when you consider the slave wage conditions of persons who sit at the
airline gates doing the scan checks, it is not hard to imagine that airport
security is an open seive. I just got through reading "Nickel and Dimed," by
Barbara Ehrenreich, and she estimates that 60% of the working poor have low
opinions of themselves and are depressed thinking that being paid that
poorly, they must themselves be worthless. She also found that 1/3 of the
homeless have full or part time jobs. So a lot of Americans walk around
feeling bummed out much of the time because of our careless economy. The
upshot of the less-than-living-wage is that there is 100% turnover in
airport scan screen watchers. The stress, the bordom, the awesome
responsibility, the piss poor wages, hell, I'd quit too.
Frances

 
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:43:35 -0600, jaxon41 wrote:

>  Bill Groneman, a history-nut like me who's also a captain of the NYCFD
with
>  20 years' service, told a mutual friend here in Austin this a few days
ago.
>  While Bill & his fellow firemen were picking body parts out of the
rumble, a
>  group of fully decked out Arabs climbed  atop the rubble, posing and
giving
>  grins, victory signs & fists-to-the-sky while others in the group snapped
>  photos to send to the folks back home.  The firemen stopped their labors
and
>  took after them with baseball bats, but NYC cops stopped them before any
>  kneecaps were busted.  Did any of you see this incident reported on
CNN/FOX
>  et al?  I didn't but BG's got no reason to lie about it.  He also said
that
>  the 300 firemen who raced to the scene and died in the collapse were all
>  high-ranking guys in the department.
>  
>  Can you imagine what would have been the fate of American tourists who
tried
>  to pull a stunt like that in Their country under similar conditions??
>  
>  Myself, I've always thought that the lyrics to Marvin Gaye's "What's
Goin'
>  Down" captured the hopes & aspirations of Our Generation.  But Marvin, it
>  takes two to tango, and these extremists don't seem to wanna dance
without
>  stomping on our toes real bad.
>  
>  Like you Connie, I'm pessimistic about our prospects for winning any kind
of
>  holy war.  Unless we're willing to exterminate MILLIONS of people, down
to
>  the last squalling infant.  Thank goodness we aren't.  What I'm worried
>  about is the extremism of these Muslim fanatics spreading like poison to
>  other, more moderate believers.  SOLIDARITY, we must stand together
against
>  the Infidels!  The pope used to launch holy wars, and you know what all
Good
>  Catholics were expected/obliged to do.  Islam may be a religion of peace
&
>  love but--like most other religions--it can be pretty easily adjusted to
the
>  goals of hate & war-mongers.  This isn't a new twist; it predates the
>  Crusades and has been with us ever since in that part of the world.
>  
>  I don't know who wrote it, but George Dubya's address to Congress will
rank
>  as one of the alltime greatest delivered to Americans in a time of
stress.
>  It called for reasonable treatment of Muslims among us and stated very
well
>  our nation's long fight against the Forces of Darkness.  It said this
attack
>  has made it too late to talk about pedantic points of who's guilty;
action
>  is now required.  Sure: Oil.  But there's more to it than that, as the
prez
>  made clear.  Germany hasn't much oil, but if they'd launched the WTC
attack,
>  I suspect the speech would have been pretty similar.  Madness is
maddness,
>  whether Adolf is the mastermind or some guy named Osama.
>  
>  This war is gonna be a tough one to win & I'm depressed about it.  jaxon
>  
>  


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