This Post Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With The Boston Red Sox #1
Back in 2003 and 2004, I posted political news/opinions on this blog. When I stopped, many readers told me they were sad to see them go; others rejoiced.
Just so you know, I'm going to have an itchy delete finger on comments here.
No one told you to read the fucking post. It's hidden enough that those people who don't want anything non-baseball from me could avoid it. That was intentional.
You don't want to argue about it? Then don't post a comment.
All I'll say is: Finding out what happened that day is one of the best things we can do for the people who were killed.
I think there are three versions of LC now (or the 3rd one is on the way). The success of that film is quite amazing.
There are problems with it, but there are some nuggets mixed in among the manure. (I've noticed that many debunking sites devoted to it have sprung up, which is interesting.)
The problem with LC and all the other videos is you have to do a shitload of other research to figure how what's what.
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We were all the way at the other end of Manhattan, at home. The next day, we were able to go down as far as 14th Street.
We were in New York last week and I'm still amazed that the buildings aren't there. It's a very strange feeling, like, "how can that be?"
"None of the people who died 5 years ago wasted their last moments on hatred,"
The only hatred here is coming from you: "I hate it. I hate everything about this day."
"revenge,"
It's only Bush who wants revenge. Revenge for the way Saddam, who had nothing to do with 9-11, treated his father.
"politics,"
I totally don't see this as being about politics, just common sense.
"or anything else but love for their families"
Allan said it best: "Finding out what happened that day is one of the best things we can do for the people who were killed." If I were killed that day, and if my soul somehow lived on, I'd definitely want my family to try to figure out what happened, and think about how they can help change the world to ensure horrible things like that never happen again. And these yearly moments of remebrance seem so contrived. Remember what happened all the time, not just at a specific time when cable channels tell you to. Also, people should try giving and caring about others NOT JUST at the end of December or after disaters...
And you wanna talk about wasted moments? bin Laden, whether he was the mastermind or not, is still not captured, and there's still a huge hole down in Lower Manhattan.
Allan, I'm glad you linked to your great post over at L's site, and I of course vote for it to go up on this site, but, you know, I know this isn't an election.
Jere, I'll bet this post brings my troll out of hiding tonight. He'll fume that it's merely the next step in my nefarious plan to brainwash all of you and get you to move to Canada.
Berserker: If you think that those who died on 9/11 felt only love for their families, you are not thinking realistically. Listen to the 911 tapes - the fear and hysteria are apparent. Nobody deserves to die in such a state of terror. That some victims had the presence of mind to call loved ones is certainly admirable but I'm betting that most didn't. The government & its flunky media have just played that aspect up.
We need to talk about this. We need to find out what happened. I agree with what others said: it really is the most appropriate way to give honor to the dead.
Redsock - great post. Thanks for enlightening me today. :-)
Re: the troll: I saved one of his comments from before you deleted it. I should sell bootleg copies out behind the blog:)
And Berserker, I also want to add that I'm not accusing you of being some kind of hatemonger, just trying to point out that you brought up hatrid; Allan's post was not hateful in any way, it was the opposite.
all i wish is for people to educate themselves and decide for themselves what to believe from knowledge, not ignorance.
i can't tell you "what happened", but i can sure as shit tell you in which areas we should be pushing to get straight answers. the military non-response/war games issue is perhaps #1.
If anyone wants to read yet another friggin "what I did that day" post, I wrote about our experience on 9/12/2001. A wmtc reader once asked me about it, so I posted it. I can direct you if you're interested, or else search the blog for "September 12, 2001".
I hope we get Bin Ladin soon before he dies naturally.
I hope we get Bush and Cheny before they die naturally.
I of course vote for it to go up on this site, but, you know, I know this isn't an election.
I vote the same way, always have. I may have stalled the demise of the political JoS for a bit, with all my whining and cajoling, but in the end, I was overruled.
So now he hangs around wmtc trying to take over. ;-)
I guess the only opinion I am allowed to post has to be in lock step with the host...
Awwwww, boo fucking hoo!
There plenty of people here who don't agree with me. I don't care. They can post. I probably don't agree with them.
Shit, I post a fucking link -- a LINK, not the actual post, which I considered putting in the comment -- but a fucking goddamn link -- and suddenly the blog is "going another way".
Jesus.
Missles? Missing planes?
Where did I fucking mention missles and missing fucking planes? Where? Huh? Show me fucking where!
You can't, because I didn't mention them anyfuckingwhere. You are making shit up!
So yeah, if a little blue link bothers you that much, buh-bye. It clearly was only a matter of time -- something else from me would have sent you off eventually.
I only linked to the post because there are people who read this blog who know where I stand politically and don't care to read it on a Red Sox site. I think I did that by the post's title and my little explanation before the link.
But I did want to make the progressive readers aware that it existed.
It is the inevitable comments by the crazys that get to me, and the timing.
Me too, but there aren't any comments by crazies here. I'd delete them if there were, and there hasn't been even one.
People's hatred against Bush, hatred against Clinton
I hate 'em both, so ...
I worked in WTC 1 for three years. I worked with people who were there in 1993 and I'm sure some of my former co-workers were there in 2001. The company I worked for lost only one employee person (they were about 30 floors below the first crash) -- and as far as I know, I knew no one who suffered any injury or death.
I'm sorry if I touched a nerve. Please know that I'm incensed at the way 9/11 has been used by both parties and all I want is for a real investigation to find out what truly happened.
I assume almost every one would like that. And whatever comes from that investigation, so be it.
I'd bet everyone who reads this blog feels the same way.
I was sorry to see it go another way.
It was one post - and it wasn't even on this blog!! It was an ANOTHER blog!! AND you were warned!!!!
My fault for reading it.
Finally, something intelligent comes out of this person's keyboard.
Wild conspiracy theories. Yeah. Go back to your little bubble where everything is explained by CNN, and we can honour the "heroes" by putting magnets on our SUVs.
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Nice to see Allan lose it for a change. I always think he is far too nice to people who whine about politics on this blog.
Berserker said I am in NY. In a tall building. The 2nd plane flew over my head.
The second plane approached the WTC by way of New Jersey. It was over NJ for all of its last (approximately) 15 minutes of flight. At 9:00, three minutes before impact, it was still at 18,000 feet.
It did not fly over Manhattan at all except about one second before it crashed (probably over the Winter Garden/Battery Park City).
Most of us who were in NYC or the area at the time know someone who lost someone. My niece went to school with kids whose parents didn't come home from work, a co-worker's uncle was a window-washer working on the outside of one of the towers, a friend's family had 3 firefighters in the family, another friend's babysitter was trapped under a car while ash piled up around her... on and on and on.
No one I know was more than two degrees of separation from the event.
I don't think anyone needs names.
The day can be anything to anyone. We still deserve and need to know the truth.
I'd love to see everything re: 9/11 come out, but can we honestly expect that to happen? It seems so exhaustingly futile to me to expect anything remotely resembling the truth to surface... I would much rather we spend our time and energy researching foreign policy that won't engender a rabid hatred of this country.
And 2 degrees is a lot when it's life and death...
That's the first intelligent thing I've ever read from you.
I've been in that 2 degrees. No, I've been in that half-a-degree. I know what that difference means.
Maybe it's because I've survived a brush with death that I know how much the truth means. What justice would mean. I'd recognize it if I saw it.
Do people who have lost love ones sleep better or worse.
Many of them would sleep better. Much, much better. That's why so many of them have worked so hard, and continue to work, to reject the lies and dig away at the truth. The 9/11 Truth Movement was started by 9/11 widows. They feel they deserve the truth, and I agree with them.
For those that feel otherwise, who would rather not know, that's their choice.
But the fact is, this happened in my city and the country of my birth, and I want to know what happened. If you don't want to know, go stick your head in the sand. That's your choice, too.
Jason, I feel the same way. Everyone works for justice in her/his own way. The 9/11 Truth people feel they are working towards a greater good, also. There are many paths - they all work together.
Fair enough, L-Girl, I may have overstated my feelings on the subject. It can be frustrating how fractured the left is, especially when facing such an enormously organized outfit (the Government? the Dems/Reps?)
Jason, I totally, totally understand. I used to say the exact same thing to Allan all the time - what good does that do, we'll never know, it's a distraction from the real issues... I guess I just had an epiphany about it, and now see the search for truth about 9/11 as part of the peace & justice movement in general. It's not my focus at all, but I now understand why it's important.
Doesn't mean you have to, of course. :) I just wanted to say that we're really in the same boat.
I think a lot about all these movements that have similar threads, and how everyone suddenly realized that how f-ing much power would suddenly be transferred... The Seattle demonstrations were like that, with Labor and Femminists and Enivronmentalists etc. etc. all realizing for a shirt time that they shared many of the same goals. Can you imagine if that tide had kept building?!?
But as it stands now, things are fractious, and I tend to worry about the collective attention span required to work on all 4,506 items on the "left" agenda (and the attention span of those we're attempting to inform)...
[Which doesn't mean I should slag off on an excellent piece (not my intention), but should rather work on making those interconnections more obvious]
If there is one thing we can each do to improve the world we live in, our own lives and the lives of those around us and around the world, and to prevent humanity from needlessly suffering another moment, it would clearly be "just stop giving a fuck." Or it could be that other thing that I'm forgetting at the moment.
Gutch: if that "let's stop caring" speech was supposed to be sarcasm, well, perfect. But I don't think it was. (And now I know it wasn't, since you've already clarified since I started typing this.)
Back to what Berserker said: "I get angry when I see movies come out about it. Flight 93 and the ilk. I view it as making money on the dead, and I get more than a little angry."
What about all the flags and bumper stickers? That's making money off the dead, too.
gutch, i would say that's what "they" would love for you to do.
stop paying attention, stop asking questions, stop voting, stop everything -- so they can do their murderous work in peace.
don't forget, though, that you may not care -- that is your choice -- but everything "they" (that's both parties) do will affect you in one way or the other.
I've been aware of your worldviews (by checking Laura's blog in the past), and have felt nothing but admiration for your ability to have a Red Sox blog where you rarely even hint at politics -- something which clouds virtually everything I do and think every day. It's a true blog that chronicles the frustration of our "Break your Heart" Sox.
Now that I read your other posting, and understand you are part of the 911-truth movement, I only express further admiration at your ability to separate your love of the Sox and your love of my country.
Thank you for the link. It is interesting reading.
Now, back to the fantasy bums on the baseball field -- thinking about the real ones that so pervade our political and media outlets is depressing.
bloodyyank78, i was going to respond to your second post, but you blew it with the first one. (is that you, zeke?)
... oh hell, i'll respond: of course, i had issues with the usa before 2000. are you saying it was perfect before then? when CLINTON was running things? ... moran.
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Red sock: I Never said you claimed things about missiles and planes. If you read my post, you will see that I refer to the crazys that jump on your initial post.
you wrote:
There was nothing in your initial post that botherd me, but it naturaly ended up with wild conspiracy theories about missiles and missing planes.
Maybe that's what you meant, but that's not what you wrote ("it" clearly = my initial post).
Gutch, you seem to confuse the blather of the mainstream media and elected (with or without quotes) officials with activism - people's movements.
"endless banter that gets everybody nowhere" "every news station, and all of the radio shows all repeat themselves over and over again. I'm just sick of it."
You should be sick of that. It's sickening.
But real people, banding together to try to alleviate some of the world's suffering - that, you should never be sick of.
We all get burnt out, and we all need a break sometimes. (That's one of the beautiful things baseball gives us.) But trying to make the world a slightly better place - trying to reclaim the country - is not a waste of time. It's what gives our lives meaning.
Obviously, your mileage may vary, and if you find it more convenient to not give a fuck, then so be it. As Allan said, you're doing exactly what the rulers of this country want.
I include all rulers in that statement, by the way, past and present.
I think a lot about all these movements that have similar threads, and how everyone suddenly realized that how f-ing much power would suddenly be transferred... The Seattle demonstrations were like that, with Labor and Femminists and Enivronmentalists etc. etc. all realizing for a shirt time that they shared many of the same goals. Can you imagine if that tide had kept building?!?
Actually, I only saw bloodyank's first post. (It's on my clipboard now! haha). But I'm pretty sure he's not Zeke. In fact, I'm almost positive. I know bloodyank from my site, and I think the writing styles are way too different.
jere: he toned it down on post #2, so you got the good one.
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i can't help but notice that no one -- not a regular commenter or anyone who decided to open a blogger account -- has said anything to discredit, challenge or counter the stuff i wrote in my post.
jack, i figured you stayed out of this one yesterday on purpose. you were kind of conspicously absent, at least to me.
there is something wrong in the world when a smart and perceptive guy like you can become convinced that the elected leaders of the country of his birth are all certified evil, psycho-madman megalomaniacs
first, i take issue with "elected". second, i would not hazard a guess as to who was involved -- but i'll bet we don't know the names of most of them.
your otherwise well-moderated posts.
err, thanks.
I know something about other U.S. conspiracy lore, from the Lincoln assassination on, and they all have had honorable, intelligent and, ultimately dead-wrong advocates as well.
I know very little about the lincoln assassination, but I know you know that many events derided as "wacko conspiracies" have turned out to be true years down the road (Watergate and Iran-Contra to name two big ones in my lifetime).
I'm going to have to give a lot of thought to why so many people think this way now
ummm, because our leaders are "certified evil, psycho-madman megalomaniacs"? ... just a guess.
another big reason is that these "leaders" give a radically different explanation every time they are asked.
if your teenaged son or daughter came home late and kept revising his/her story of what happened every time you asked, you might get the impression you were being told something less than the complete truth.
(If I believed that the government could or would be involved in intentionally allowing a terrorist attack to kill 3,000 Americans, I'd move to Canada TONIGHT,)
after a sober examiantion of everything we have been told for the past five years -- and i mean the words spoken by various government officials and only those words -- "intentionally allowing a terrorist attack to kill 3,000 Americans" is the kindest verdict you could render.
also, the us government has intentionally "killed" almost 3,000 other Americans in the middle east by sending them to invade and occupy two countries.
and just so we're clear, only one party is currently in power, but i believe almost all members of both parties are morally bankrupt, and will never be able to wash the blood off their hands.
It was in the 1950s and America was in the height of the Cold War. ...
The U.S. government was preparing for germ warfare by secretly spraying biological agents on its own citizens. The tests were conducted in 239 cities, including one of Oklahoma's most prominent communities.
that came to light in 2003. the year before, the department of defense admitted that the US had sprayed more than 4,000 sailors in Vietnam with various substances, including sarin, from 1964-68.
thereby giving new meaning to "he gassed his own people".
"And I think you used extreme good taste and fairness in the manner in which you did it...with a link and a warning. Class all the way."
I don't see how it would've shown a lack of class had he just posted his article on the main page of this blog, with no warning.
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Gutch: I was referring to a comment that was deleted in which someone told Allan he wasn't allowed to have an opinion about the US because he moved away. Hence the "right?" at the end. I was mocking him.
Gutch, NO ONE here places 100% of the blame on Bush. In fact, the owner of this blog and his esteemed partner-in-crime think Bush is nothing but a figurehead, and likely knows nothing and did less.
Also, there is no "blind speculating" going on. Allan has spent years researching this stuff. Try to debate him on it and you'll find out how much he knows.
We can't take somebodies difference in opinion personally because we basically all want the same thing; peace, no terrorism, no war, stability, and we don't even know it.
BULLSHIT. Many people do not want peace. Many people want war, as long as other people do the dying. If everyone wanted peace, Gutch, THERE'D BE NO WAR.
I am quite certain some of them enjoy killing people.
WOW! that's quite a statement......
Prefacing it by saying they are doing what they are told.......
Then follow it up with oh yeah but I bet they enjoy it ....I myself would never assume to know how a soldier truly feels its presumptious and ignorant.
That's like the arguement of the boy being molested by his woman teacher.......
You're full of shit, man. I'm done talking to you. Do you think when people read these things, they say, Boy that 9Casey guy sure is smart? You miss the point of what people are saying consistently. I shouldn't have to write something to you and then explain it in the next comment.
"I enjoy killing Iraqis," says Staff Sgt. William Deaton, 30, who had killed a hostile fighter the night before. Deaton has lost a good friend in Iraq. "I just feel rage, hate when I'm out there. I feel like I carry it all the time. We talk about it. We all feel the same way."
let's not forget the planned (one week ahead of time) rape and burning of Abeer Qasim Hamzaa, a 14-year-old iraqi girl, and the murder of three other members of her family.
I have never been in war or even shot a gun....... ....I don't know how these people think....I was brought up a different way.. I am going to give someone the benefit of the doubt before I judge..There are stories out there of good soldiers who are away from their families fighting a war some of them don't believe in..I am just not going to generalize and say some enjoy it.....I have never walked even a second in their shoes...I can't lump a thousand bad guys with 30,000 good and say its all bad that helps no one...
These guys come home and ,I know we all know someone who has been in Iraq or Afghanaistan or even Vietnam....they don't want to talk about it.....I can't give David Ortiz the benefit of the doubt and say he was misquoted and on the other hand believe all the bad crap that is written about our soldiers......I will never know what it is like to be in Iraq and comment on it like I was. When it comes to war , IN MY VIEW , I can not comment good or bad ..because its something I hope I will never have to be a part of.......Wars Suck wheter they are right or wrong..That is just my opinion...You can have your views and I will respect them I ask for the same of mine...
What you're missing is that NO ONE SAID that ALL soldiers like killing. Me saying that there is documented evidence of SOME soldiers (who knows what the percentage is? Let's hope it's very, very low) who admit to enjoying it is not my opinion, it's the truth.
When gutch said "I'm pretty sure they wish that there was no need for a war," I AGREED with him by saying they're just doing what they're told. The point of me saying that was that no one was talking about the soldiers wanting war, just the people who make the wars wanting it. Then I went onto say that some soldiers DO like killing, to counter the fact that he was saying that NO ONE wants war (meaning soldiers, since, like I said, he missed the point that we were talking about warmongers, not pawns.)
Supporting the war effort, and wanting war are two different things. I'm sure the soldiers over there work hard to do what they can but I'm pretty sure they wish that there was no need for a war. You have to see that difference, don't you?
I see the difference, and disagree with you. Many people want war. Many people love war. That, to me, is blatantly obvious and easy to see by looking around you.
I'm not talking about soldiers. Your original comment said nothing about soldiers - it said "everyone wants the same thing ... peace".
Re "supporting the war effort" in the US, that seems to mean paying your taxes (which is involuntary), putting a sticker on your car, and not protesting. How do civilians "support the war effort"? By not questioning the men who start the wars?
Re "need for war", if there is anyone in the US who still believes there is a "need" to invade, destroy and occupy Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran or any other country, they are ignorant, gullible sheep. And I apologize to sheep, as sheep are better and smarter than those people.
Dismiss me because of my opinion of your comment and I'm the narrow-minded one....
9Casey, people here don't dismiss you because of your opinion. They dismiss you because you seem not to read carefully, then respond to something other than what the person wrote. It's highly frustrating.
If you do it on purpose, you're not interested in having a rational discussion. If you do it by accident, slow down and read more carefully, it would go a long way.
Some unsolicited advice from your resident man-basher.
let's not forget the planned (one week ahead of time) rape and burning of Abeer Qasim Hamzaa, a 14-year-old iraqi girl, and the murder of three other members of her family.
Maybe I read that article wrong but it says the girl is between 15- 20 years old........I also do not know forensic science that well but Is it possible to know if a girl who has been burned , that she has also been raped?
while it doesn't make the crime any less barbaric if she was 20, official documents were released that show her exact birth date. they can be found with some online searching.
as i understand it, several of the men involved confessed.
Her face was burned beyond recognition. Much of her body was not, and her body bore all the tell-tale scars of gang rape.
Several soldiers confessed to raping her, holding her while others raped her, and to knowing that her body had been burned in an attempt to hide it.
I'm not sure if Allan said this, but her parents and baby brother were murdered in an attempt to cover up the crime.
No one is saying all soldiers do this. I see most of the armed forces in this war as victims. However, to say that they would prefer peace or don't like killing is quite a stretch.
Again, I also repeat that when Gutch said (copying here) "we basically all want the same thing; peace, no terrorism, no war, stability, and we don't even know it" he didn't mention soldiers, he seemed to be (and I believe he was) referring to civilians, hence his use of the word "we". If he meant soldiers, who is the "we"?
We do NOT all want the same things. That should be pretty fucking obvious.
Maybe I read that article wrong but it says the girl is between 15- 20 years old........
You read it incompletely, or possibly the article was not updated.
The US Army originally said the victim was a 20-year-old woman, in an attempt to make the crime look less heinous. It was later established, using the girl's official identity papers, that she was 14 years old.
Fourteen.
This is what war does to many men. I'd bet anything not none of those men would have committed a crime like this in the US against American women. In war, it's open season.
There is so much evidence documenting this in all wars throughout history, and many of us are so familiar with the evidence, that 9Casey, you'd do well to believe it.
Oh yeah, we all want the same things. Those men who committed that heinous crime and me, we want the same things. Sure.
i wanted to share a quote. korey rowe, one of the makers of "loose change", admits they left lies in the movie on purpose.
"What I encourage people to do is go out and research it themselves. We don't ever come out and say that everything we say is 100 percent. We know there are errors in the documentary, and we've actually left them in there so that people discredit us and do the research for themselves -- the B52 (remarked to have flown into the Empire State Building), the use of Wikipedia, things like that. We left them in there so people will want to discredit us and go out and research the events yourself and come up with your own conclusions. That's our whole goal, to make Americans think."
I have not watched it all the way through, though I know generally their points of view.
Is that your theory as well?
I don't really have a theory. Like I said, I am more more open to raising questions and getting people to realize the strange and contradictory things we've been told (and are still being told).
There are some things that I think are likely to have occurred -- based on dozens bits of information culled from hundreds of news reports -- but I usually don't write about them.
If it all happened the way they said, because like you pointed out they admitted to lies, was it really done for the money?
It's been available for free on the web, so I don't think so.
Why they would knowingly include lies is just beyond bizarre. ... I don't thnk they did that. It seems like they were caught in a bunch of lies and this is their "excuse".
No real respectable historian would write a book, then admit that he threw in 100 lies, and told you to go do the same research to figure how where he was dishonest.
There is more than enough stuff to point to and not lie. It's insane.
Jesus, not the moviemakers the gov't........Thats what is said in the end of the movie .That they blew up the buildings for gold. I assumed you watched it.sorry.......
L-girl , what did I write for you to write that?
You for some reason you always think I am trying to twist something...I was trying to get redsock point of view on the movie.... Never even once made a comment to his post , except what he wrote, about the lies......
L-girl said... Like I said,
Never assume 9Casey has read anything you've written. Big mistake.
edsock doesn't even mention that I assumed anything
I guess we just have a communication problem. You often seem to respond to something other than what people actually wrote.
I'm sorry to have offended you.
If it all happened the way they said, because like you pointed out they admitted to lies, was it really done for the money?
It's been available for free on the web, so I don't think so.
This was a strange exchange!
9Casey didn't mean they made Loose Change for profit.
He meant (I think) that the filmmakers think *9/11 was committed for profit*, and does Redsock agree. Am I reading that right?
"...it was realy done for the money" - meaning 9/11 was committed for profit. (And I suppose not the long-term profit of war in Iraq?) Is that what Loose Change theorizes??? Very strange. I guess we'll have to see it and judge for ourselves how wacky or sober it is.
Not sure about the gold. Off the top of my head, I remember reading stories about a shitload of gold stored in the WTC complex, but that it was all recovered. (Which could be a lie ...)
if you get the chance, check out "9/11 - press for truth".
much of it is based on paul thompson's 9/11 timeline. i watched the first hour of it yesterday and was impressed.
it's made for someone who might not be very well-versed in the battle to get a 9/11 investigation off the ground and everything that came out during the various hearings.
and it sticks only to verifible mainstream news reports.
For the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I wrote something for Laura's blog.
ReplyDeleteBerserker: So go do it. Who's stopping you?
ReplyDeleteNo one is arguing here. Allan pointed out a post, is all. No one made you read it.
Just so you know, I'm going to have an itchy delete finger on comments here.
ReplyDeleteNo one told you to read the fucking post. It's hidden enough that those people who don't want anything non-baseball from me could avoid it. That was intentional.
You don't want to argue about it? Then don't post a comment.
All I'll say is: Finding out what happened that day is one of the best things we can do for the people who were killed.
I think there are three versions of LC now (or the 3rd one is on the way). The success of that film is quite amazing.
ReplyDeleteThere are problems with it, but there are some nuggets mixed in among the manure. (I've noticed that many debunking sites devoted to it have sprung up, which is interesting.)
The problem with LC and all the other videos is you have to do a shitload of other research to figure how what's what.
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We were all the way at the other end of Manhattan, at home. The next day, we were able to go down as far as 14th Street.
We were in New York last week and I'm still amazed that the buildings aren't there. It's a very strange feeling, like, "how can that be?"
"None of the people who died 5 years ago wasted their last moments on hatred,"
ReplyDeleteThe only hatred here is coming from you: "I hate it. I hate everything about this day."
"revenge,"
It's only Bush who wants revenge. Revenge for the way Saddam, who had nothing to do with 9-11, treated his father.
"politics,"
I totally don't see this as being about politics, just common sense.
"or anything else but love for their families"
Allan said it best: "Finding out what happened that day is one of the best things we can do for the people who were killed." If I were killed that day, and if my soul somehow lived on, I'd definitely want my family to try to figure out what happened, and think about how they can help change the world to ensure horrible things like that never happen again. And these yearly moments of remebrance seem so contrived. Remember what happened all the time, not just at a specific time when cable channels tell you to. Also, people should try giving and caring about others NOT JUST at the end of December or after disaters...
And you wanna talk about wasted moments? bin Laden, whether he was the mastermind or not, is still not captured, and there's still a huge hole down in Lower Manhattan.
Allan, I'm glad you linked to your great post over at L's site, and I of course vote for it to go up on this site, but, you know, I know this isn't an election.
I know this isn't an election.
ReplyDeleteNope. It's a dictatorship.
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Jere, I'll bet this post brings my troll out of hiding tonight. He'll fume that it's merely the next step in my nefarious plan to brainwash all of you and get you to move to Canada.
Now there's a conspiracy!
Berserker: If you think that those who died on 9/11 felt only love for their families, you are not thinking realistically. Listen to the 911 tapes - the fear and hysteria are apparent. Nobody deserves to die in such a state of terror. That some victims had the presence of mind to call loved ones is certainly admirable but I'm betting that most didn't. The government & its flunky media have just played that aspect up.
ReplyDeleteWe need to talk about this. We need to find out what happened. I agree with what others said: it really is the most appropriate way to give honor to the dead.
Redsock - great post. Thanks for enlightening me today. :-)
Re: the troll: I saved one of his comments from before you deleted it. I should sell bootleg copies out behind the blog:)
ReplyDeleteAnd Berserker, I also want to add that I'm not accusing you of being some kind of hatemonger, just trying to point out that you brought up hatrid; Allan's post was not hateful in any way, it was the opposite.
Re: the troll: I saved one of his comments from before you deleted it. I should sell bootleg copies out behind the blog :)
ReplyDeleteahhhh, but i can release the box set! (plus some "unreleased" posts to laura's blog!!)
or maybe we can swap them like baseball cards. i'll give you two "move to canada like your mentor" for one "isreal, a country with real balls!"
seriously, thanks for the kind words.
ReplyDeleteall i wish is for people to educate themselves and decide for themselves what to believe from knowledge, not ignorance.
i can't tell you "what happened", but i can sure as shit tell you in which areas we should be pushing to get straight answers. the military non-response/war games issue is perhaps #1.
Jere: thank you. What a wonderful comment.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone wants to read yet another friggin "what I did that day" post, I wrote about our experience on 9/12/2001. A wmtc reader once asked me about it, so I posted it. I can direct you if you're interested, or else search the blog for "September 12, 2001".
I hope we get Bin Ladin soon before he dies naturally.
I hope we get Bush and Cheny before they die naturally.
Couch Potato: thank you. I hadn't gotten that far when I started typing to thank Jere. :)
ReplyDeleteThis blog has a very intelligent readership.
I of course vote for it to go up on this site, but, you know, I know this isn't an election.
ReplyDeleteI vote the same way, always have. I may have stalled the demise of the political JoS for a bit, with all my whining and cajoling, but in the end, I was overruled.
So now he hangs around wmtc trying to take over. ;-)
I hope we get Bush and Cheny before they die naturally.
ReplyDeleteGood one! Throw all three long-time business partners in the same cell.
So now he hangs around wmtc trying to take over. ;-)
Just a few days ago, you were saying I never comment. Hmmm. ... You must mean my nagging about getting a weekly "column".
I guess the only opinion I am allowed to post has to be in lock step with the host...
ReplyDeleteAwwwww, boo fucking hoo!
There plenty of people here who don't agree with me. I don't care. They can post. I probably don't agree with them.
Shit, I post a fucking link -- a LINK, not the actual post, which I considered putting in the comment -- but a fucking goddamn link -- and suddenly the blog is "going another way".
Jesus.
Missles? Missing planes?
Where did I fucking mention missles and missing fucking planes? Where? Huh? Show me fucking where!
You can't, because I didn't mention them anyfuckingwhere. You are making shit up!
So yeah, if a little blue link bothers you that much, buh-bye. It clearly was only a matter of time -- something else from me would have sent you off eventually.
Great. I lash out and now you back off. Jeez.
ReplyDeleteListen.
I only linked to the post because there are people who read this blog who know where I stand politically and don't care to read it on a Red Sox site. I think I did that by the post's title and my little explanation before the link.
But I did want to make the progressive readers aware that it existed.
It is the inevitable comments by the crazys that get to me, and the timing.
Me too, but there aren't any comments by crazies here. I'd delete them if there were, and there hasn't been even one.
People's hatred against Bush, hatred against Clinton
I hate 'em both, so ...
I worked in WTC 1 for three years. I worked with people who were there in 1993 and I'm sure some of my former co-workers were there in 2001. The company I worked for lost only one employee person (they were about 30 floors below the first crash) -- and as far as I know, I knew no one who suffered any injury or death.
I'm sorry if I touched a nerve. Please know that I'm incensed at the way 9/11 has been used by both parties and all I want is for a real investigation to find out what truly happened.
I assume almost every one would like that. And whatever comes from that investigation, so be it.
Baseball is like an escape for me.
ReplyDeleteI'd bet everyone who reads this blog feels the same way.
I was sorry to see it go another way.
It was one post - and it wasn't even on this blog!! It was an ANOTHER blog!! AND you were warned!!!!
My fault for reading it.
Finally, something intelligent comes out of this person's keyboard.
Wild conspiracy theories. Yeah. Go back to your little bubble where everything is explained by CNN, and we can honour the "heroes" by putting magnets on our SUVs.
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Nice to see Allan lose it for a change. I always think he is far too nice to people who whine about politics on this blog.
Great. I lash out and now you back off. Jeez.
ReplyDeleteOh, now we're nicey-nice again? You are too damn nice. Bet you never thought anyone would accuse you of that.
Nice to see Allan lose it for a change. I always think he is far too nice to people who whine about politics on this blog.
ReplyDeleteNice to see Allan loose it for a change. ... Dismissed as coincedence?
I guess the only opinion I am allowed to post has to be in lock step with the host...
ReplyDeleteCan I please have a dollar for every time a disgruntled reader says this?
Berserker said
ReplyDeleteI am in NY. In a tall building. The 2nd plane flew over my head.
The second plane approached the WTC by way of New Jersey. It was over NJ for all of its last (approximately) 15 minutes of flight. At 9:00, three minutes before impact, it was still at 18,000 feet.
It did not fly over Manhattan at all except about one second before it crashed (probably over the Winter Garden/Battery Park City).
I have a friend who lost a son on that day . And to this day it has not been about anything accept a tragedy that took his son .
ReplyDeleteIt was an event that took a father away from his son too early.
He chooses to let his son name live on through scholarships and fond memories.
and redsock if you want the the name to verify i will give it to you privately.
All I'll say is: Finding out what happened that day is one of the best things we can do for the people who were killed.
ReplyDeleteexactly. and for humanity in general.
9/11 is like the new 'enlightenment'. a foundation for a new world order.
suzy lux: excellent. so chilling - so true.
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Most of us who were in NYC or the area at the time know someone who lost someone. My niece went to school with kids whose parents didn't come home from work, a co-worker's uncle was a window-washer working on the outside of one of the towers, a friend's family had 3 firefighters in the family, another friend's babysitter was trapped under a car while ash piled up around her... on and on and on.
No one I know was more than two degrees of separation from the event.
I don't think anyone needs names.
The day can be anything to anyone. We still deserve and need to know the truth.
I'd love to see everything re: 9/11 come out, but can we honestly expect that to happen? It seems so exhaustingly futile to me to expect anything remotely resembling the truth to surface... I would much rather we spend our time and energy researching foreign policy that won't engender a rabid hatred of this country.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think the truth is ?
ReplyDeleteAnd 2 degrees is a lot when it's life and death...
A New World Order.....??
Even if the truth is everything some of you want it to be , what does it change...
Do people who have lost love ones sleep better or worse.
You will never know the truth.
I would much rather we spend our time and energy researching foreign policy that won't engender a rabid hatred of this country.
ReplyDeleteI think the two are very much connected.
And 2 degrees is a lot when it's life and death...
ReplyDeleteThat's the first intelligent thing I've ever read from you.
I've been in that 2 degrees. No, I've been in that half-a-degree. I know what that difference means.
Maybe it's because I've survived a brush with death that I know how much the truth means. What justice would mean. I'd recognize it if I saw it.
Do people who have lost love ones sleep better or worse.
Many of them would sleep better. Much, much better. That's why so many of them have worked so hard, and continue to work, to reject the lies and dig away at the truth. The 9/11 Truth Movement was started by 9/11 widows. They feel they deserve the truth, and I agree with them.
For those that feel otherwise, who would rather not know, that's their choice.
But the fact is, this happened in my city and the country of my birth, and I want to know what happened. If you don't want to know, go stick your head in the sand. That's your choice, too.
Jason, I feel the same way. Everyone works for justice in her/his own way. The 9/11 Truth people feel they are working towards a greater good, also. There are many paths - they all work together.
ReplyDeleteFair enough, L-Girl, I may have overstated my feelings on the subject. It can be frustrating how fractured the left is, especially when facing such an enormously organized outfit (the Government? the Dems/Reps?)
ReplyDeleteJason, I totally, totally understand. I used to say the exact same thing to Allan all the time - what good does that do, we'll never know, it's a distraction from the real issues... I guess I just had an epiphany about it, and now see the search for truth about 9/11 as part of the peace & justice movement in general. It's not my focus at all, but I now understand why it's important.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't mean you have to, of course. :) I just wanted to say that we're really in the same boat.
I'm totally with you on that...
ReplyDeleteI think a lot about all these movements that have similar threads, and how everyone suddenly realized that how f-ing much power would suddenly be transferred... The Seattle demonstrations were like that, with Labor and Femminists and Enivronmentalists etc. etc. all realizing for a shirt time that they shared many of the same goals. Can you imagine if that tide had kept building?!?
But as it stands now, things are fractious, and I tend to worry about the collective attention span required to work on all 4,506 items on the "left" agenda (and the attention span of those we're attempting to inform)...
[Which doesn't mean I should slag off on an excellent piece (not my intention), but should rather work on making those interconnections more obvious]
If there is one thing we can each do to improve the world we live in, our own lives and the lives of those around us and around the world, and to prevent humanity from needlessly suffering another moment, it would clearly be "just stop giving a fuck." Or it could be that other thing that I'm forgetting at the moment.
ReplyDeleteGutch: if that "let's stop caring" speech was supposed to be sarcasm, well, perfect. But I don't think it was. (And now I know it wasn't, since you've already clarified since I started typing this.)
ReplyDeleteBack to what Berserker said: "I get angry when I see movies come out about it. Flight 93 and the ilk. I view it as making money on the dead, and I get more than a little angry."
What about all the flags and bumper stickers? That's making money off the dead, too.
gutch, i would say that's what "they" would love for you to do.
ReplyDeletestop paying attention, stop asking questions, stop voting, stop everything -- so they can do their murderous work in peace.
don't forget, though, that you may not care -- that is your choice -- but everything "they" (that's both parties) do will affect you in one way or the other.
Redsock,
ReplyDeleteI've been aware of your worldviews (by checking Laura's blog in the past), and have felt nothing but admiration for your ability to have a Red Sox blog where you rarely even hint at politics -- something which clouds virtually everything I do and think every day. It's a true blog that chronicles the frustration of our "Break your Heart" Sox.
Now that I read your other posting, and understand you are part of the 911-truth movement, I only express further admiration at your ability to separate your love of the Sox and your love of my country.
Thank you for the link. It is interesting reading.
Now, back to the fantasy bums on the baseball field -- thinking about the real ones that so pervade our political and media outlets is depressing.
Oh you gotta leave the idiot Yankee fan making a fool of himself up there!
ReplyDeleteOkay, well, Yankee fan, if you're still reading, You aren't a Sox fan, so you don't get to have opinions about the Red Sox, right?
bloodyyank78, i was going to respond to your second post, but you blew it with the first one. (is that you, zeke?)
ReplyDelete... oh hell, i'll respond: of course, i had issues with the usa before 2000. are you saying it was perfect before then? when CLINTON was running things? ... moran.
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Red sock: I Never said you claimed things about missiles and planes. If you read my post, you will see that I refer to the crazys that jump on your initial post.
you wrote:
There was nothing in your initial post that botherd me, but it naturaly ended up with wild conspiracy theories about missiles and missing planes.
Maybe that's what you meant, but that's not what you wrote ("it" clearly = my initial post).
Bite me!
ReplyDeleteYou should be so lucky.
teesee, thank you. ... i do hint at it, if you recall some of my recent comments about mr. timlin.
ReplyDelete...
sorry, jere, shitheads who lead with insults will not get the satisfaction of staying.
now: did you save those comments or do you need me to email them to you? :>)
Gutch, you seem to confuse the blather of the mainstream media and elected (with or without quotes) officials with activism - people's movements.
ReplyDelete"endless banter that gets everybody nowhere" "every news station, and all of the radio shows all repeat themselves over and over again. I'm just sick of it."
You should be sick of that. It's sickening.
But real people, banding together to try to alleviate some of the world's suffering - that, you should never be sick of.
We all get burnt out, and we all need a break sometimes. (That's one of the beautiful things baseball gives us.) But trying to make the world a slightly better place - trying to reclaim the country - is not a waste of time. It's what gives our lives meaning.
Obviously, your mileage may vary, and if you find it more convenient to not give a fuck, then so be it. As Allan said, you're doing exactly what the rulers of this country want.
I include all rulers in that statement, by the way, past and present.
I think a lot about all these movements that have similar threads, and how everyone suddenly realized that how f-ing much power would suddenly be transferred... The Seattle demonstrations were like that, with Labor and Femminists and Enivronmentalists etc. etc. all realizing for a shirt time that they shared many of the same goals. Can you imagine if that tide had kept building?!?
ReplyDeleteNow is the time, if ever there was one.
teesee, thank you. ... i do hint at it, if you recall some of my recent comments about mr. timlin.
ReplyDeleteBut not enough!!!! :)
Who is this Teesee, I wonder, who sometimes reads wmtc? I wonder how many readers we share. More than 3? 5, maybe?
Actually, I only saw bloodyank's first post. (It's on my clipboard now! haha). But I'm pretty sure he's not Zeke. In fact, I'm almost positive. I know bloodyank from my site, and I think the writing styles are way too different.
ReplyDeletejere: he toned it down on post #2, so you got the good one.
ReplyDelete...
i can't help but notice that no one -- not a regular commenter or anyone who decided to open a blogger account -- has said anything to discredit, challenge or counter the stuff i wrote in my post.
jack, i figured you stayed out of this one yesterday on purpose. you were kind of conspicously absent, at least to me.
ReplyDeletethere is something wrong in the world when a smart and perceptive guy like you can become convinced that the elected leaders of the country of his birth are all certified evil, psycho-madman megalomaniacs
first, i take issue with "elected". second, i would not hazard a guess as to who was involved -- but i'll bet we don't know the names of most of them.
your otherwise well-moderated posts.
err, thanks.
I know something about other U.S. conspiracy lore, from the Lincoln assassination on, and they all have had honorable, intelligent and, ultimately dead-wrong advocates as well.
I know very little about the lincoln assassination, but I know you know that many events derided as "wacko conspiracies" have turned out to be true years down the road (Watergate and Iran-Contra to name two big ones in my lifetime).
I'm going to have to give a lot of thought to why so many people think this way now
ummm, because our leaders are "certified evil, psycho-madman megalomaniacs"? ... just a guess.
another big reason is that these "leaders" give a radically different explanation every time they are asked.
if your teenaged son or daughter came home late and kept revising his/her story of what happened every time you asked, you might get the impression you were being told something less than the complete truth.
(If I believed that the government could or would be involved in intentionally allowing a terrorist attack to kill 3,000 Americans, I'd move to Canada TONIGHT,)
after a sober examiantion of everything we have been told for the past five years -- and i mean the words spoken by various government officials and only those words -- "intentionally allowing a terrorist attack to kill 3,000 Americans" is the kindest verdict you could render.
also, the us government has intentionally "killed" almost 3,000 other Americans in the middle east by sending them to invade and occupy two countries.
and just so we're clear, only one party is currently in power, but i believe almost all members of both parties are morally bankrupt, and will never be able to wash the blood off their hands.
of course, in addition to watergate and iran-contra, there was also stuff like the tuskegee syphilis study and the military's admission, years after the fact, that it tested chemical weapons on unsuspecting americans.
ReplyDeleteIt was in the 1950s and America was in the height of the Cold War. ...
The U.S. government was preparing for germ warfare by secretly spraying biological agents on its own citizens. The tests were conducted in 239 cities, including one of Oklahoma's most prominent communities.
that came to light in 2003. the year before, the department of defense admitted that the US had sprayed more than 4,000 sailors in Vietnam with various substances, including sarin, from 1964-68.
thereby giving new meaning to "he gassed his own people".
my theater company
ReplyDeleteWow! We have more in common than I thought.
A Sox/Jays or Sox/O's game would be great. And if we get tired of arguing about politics, we can always talk about dogs.
A game at Skydome sounds good. With any luck, it'll be a Papelbon start!
ReplyDeleteAnd I do have an email address if temptation gets the best of you.
"And I think you used extreme good taste and fairness in the manner in which you did it...with a link and a warning. Class all the way."
ReplyDeleteI don't see how it would've shown a lack of class had he just posted his article on the main page of this blog, with no warning.
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Gutch:
I was referring to a comment that was deleted in which someone told Allan he wasn't allowed to have an opinion about the US because he moved away. Hence the "right?" at the end. I was mocking him.
Sincerely,
The Jere Theatre Company
Gutch, NO ONE here places 100% of the blame on Bush. In fact, the owner of this blog and his esteemed partner-in-crime think Bush is nothing but a figurehead, and likely knows nothing and did less.
ReplyDeleteAlso, there is no "blind speculating" going on. Allan has spent years researching this stuff. Try to debate him on it and you'll find out how much he knows.
We can't take somebodies difference in opinion personally because we basically all want the same thing; peace, no terrorism, no war, stability, and we don't even know it.
BULLSHIT. Many people do not want peace. Many people want war, as long as other people do the dying. If everyone wanted peace, Gutch, THERE'D BE NO WAR.
And who can you say wants war? unless you know them personally, how do you know what they want?
ReplyDeleteIf people make public statements supporting a war, then I think it's safe to say they want the war.
The soldiers are just doing what they're told.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I am quite certain some of them enjoy killing people.
I am quite certain some of them enjoy killing people.
ReplyDeleteWOW! that's quite a statement......
Prefacing it by saying they are doing what they are told.......
Then follow it up with oh yeah but I bet they enjoy it ....I myself would never assume to know how a soldier truly feels its presumptious and ignorant.
That's like the arguement of the boy being molested by his woman teacher.......
You're full of shit, man. I'm done talking to you. Do you think when people read these things, they say, Boy that 9Casey guy sure is smart? You miss the point of what people are saying consistently. I shouldn't have to write something to you and then explain it in the next comment.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Seattle Times:
ReplyDelete"I enjoy killing Iraqis," says Staff Sgt. William Deaton, 30, who had killed a hostile fighter the night before. Deaton has lost a good friend in Iraq. "I just feel rage, hate when I'm out there. I feel like I carry it all the time. We talk about it. We all feel the same way."
That's from 2 seconds of googling.
You have your view.
ReplyDeleteNo I don't think people think hey he's smart I get called an idiot on this blog everyday.
Dismiss me because of my opinion of your comment and I'm the narrow-minded one....
let's not forget the planned (one week ahead of time) rape and burning of Abeer Qasim Hamzaa, a 14-year-old iraqi girl, and the murder of three other members of her family.
ReplyDeletewhat color ribbon do i buy for that?
I am not trying to say they are all good people..
ReplyDeleteI have never been in war or even shot a gun....... ....I don't know how these people think....I was brought up a different way.. I am going to give someone the benefit of the doubt before I judge..There are stories out there of good soldiers who are away from their families fighting a war some of them don't believe in..I am just not going to generalize and say some enjoy it.....I have never walked even a second in their shoes...I can't lump a thousand bad guys with 30,000 good and say its all bad that helps no one...
These guys come home and ,I know we all know someone who has been in Iraq or Afghanaistan or even Vietnam....they don't want to talk about it.....I can't give David Ortiz the benefit of the doubt and say he was misquoted and on the other hand believe all the bad crap that is written about our soldiers......I will never know what it is like to be in Iraq and comment on it like I was. When it comes to war , IN MY VIEW , I can not comment good or bad ..because its something I hope I will never have to be a part of.......Wars Suck wheter they are right or wrong..That is just my opinion...You can have your views and I will respect them I ask for the same of mine...
What you're missing is that NO ONE SAID that ALL soldiers like killing. Me saying that there is documented evidence of SOME soldiers (who knows what the percentage is? Let's hope it's very, very low) who admit to enjoying it is not my opinion, it's the truth.
ReplyDeleteWhen gutch said "I'm pretty sure they wish that there was no need for a war," I AGREED with him by saying they're just doing what they're told. The point of me saying that was that no one was talking about the soldiers wanting war, just the people who make the wars wanting it. Then I went onto say that some soldiers DO like killing, to counter the fact that he was saying that NO ONE wants war (meaning soldiers, since, like I said, he missed the point that we were talking about warmongers, not pawns.)
Supporting the war effort, and wanting war are two different things. I'm sure the soldiers over there work hard to do what they can but I'm pretty sure they wish that there was no need for a war. You have to see that difference, don't you?
ReplyDeleteI see the difference, and disagree with you. Many people want war. Many people love war. That, to me, is blatantly obvious and easy to see by looking around you.
I'm not talking about soldiers. Your original comment said nothing about soldiers - it said "everyone wants the same thing ... peace".
Re "supporting the war effort" in the US, that seems to mean paying your taxes (which is involuntary), putting a sticker on your car, and not protesting. How do civilians "support the war effort"? By not questioning the men who start the wars?
Re "need for war", if there is anyone in the US who still believes there is a "need" to invade, destroy and occupy Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran or any other country, they are ignorant, gullible sheep. And I apologize to sheep, as sheep are better and smarter than those people.
Dismiss me because of my opinion of your comment and I'm the narrow-minded one....
ReplyDelete9Casey, people here don't dismiss you because of your opinion. They dismiss you because you seem not to read carefully, then respond to something other than what the person wrote. It's highly frustrating.
If you do it on purpose, you're not interested in having a rational discussion. If you do it by accident, slow down and read more carefully, it would go a long way.
Some unsolicited advice from your resident man-basher.
"knows nothing and did less"--The George W Bush Story.
ReplyDeletelet's not forget the planned (one week ahead of time) rape and burning of Abeer Qasim Hamzaa, a 14-year-old iraqi girl, and the murder of three other members of her family.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I read that article wrong but it says the girl is between 15- 20 years old........I also do not know forensic science that well but Is it possible to know if a girl who has been burned , that she has also been raped?
while it doesn't make the crime any less barbaric if she was 20, official documents were released that show her exact birth date. they can be found with some online searching.
ReplyDeleteas i understand it, several of the men involved confessed.
Her face was burned beyond recognition. Much of her body was not, and her body bore all the tell-tale scars of gang rape.
ReplyDeleteSeveral soldiers confessed to raping her, holding her while others raped her, and to knowing that her body had been burned in an attempt to hide it.
I'm not sure if Allan said this, but her parents and baby brother were murdered in an attempt to cover up the crime.
No one is saying all soldiers do this. I see most of the armed forces in this war as victims. However, to say that they would prefer peace or don't like killing is quite a stretch.
Again, I also repeat that when Gutch said (copying here) "we basically all want the same thing; peace, no terrorism, no war, stability, and we don't even know it" he didn't mention soldiers, he seemed to be (and I believe he was) referring to civilians, hence his use of the word "we". If he meant soldiers, who is the "we"?
We do NOT all want the same things. That should be pretty fucking obvious.
Maybe I read that article wrong but it says the girl is between 15- 20 years old........
ReplyDeleteYou read it incompletely, or possibly the article was not updated.
The US Army originally said the victim was a 20-year-old woman, in an attempt to make the crime look less heinous. It was later established, using the girl's official identity papers, that she was 14 years old.
Fourteen.
This is what war does to many men. I'd bet anything not none of those men would have committed a crime like this in the US against American women. In war, it's open season.
There is so much evidence documenting this in all wars throughout history, and many of us are so familiar with the evidence, that 9Casey, you'd do well to believe it.
Oh yeah, we all want the same things. Those men who committed that heinous crime and me, we want the same things. Sure.
is anyone still coming here to read?
ReplyDeletei wanted to share a quote. korey rowe, one of the makers of "loose change", admits they left lies in the movie on purpose.
"What I encourage people to do is go out and research it themselves. We don't ever come out and say that everything we say is 100 percent. We know there are errors in the documentary, and we've actually left them in there so that people discredit us and do the research for themselves -- the B52 (remarked to have flown into the Empire State Building), the use of Wikipedia, things like that. We left them in there so people will want to discredit us and go out and research the events yourself and come up with your own conclusions. That's our whole goal, to make Americans think."
korey, i think you are insane.
I just watched that movie.
ReplyDeleteIs that your theory as well?
If it all happened the way they said, because like you pointed out they admmitted to lies, was it really done for the money?
I just watched that movie.
ReplyDeleteI have not watched it all the way through, though I know generally their points of view.
Is that your theory as well?
I don't really have a theory. Like I said, I am more more open to raising questions and getting people to realize the strange and contradictory things we've been told (and are still being told).
There are some things that I think are likely to have occurred -- based on dozens bits of information culled from hundreds of news reports -- but I usually don't write about them.
If it all happened the way they said, because like you pointed out they admitted to lies, was it really done for the money?
It's been available for free on the web, so I don't think so.
Why they would knowingly include lies is just beyond bizarre. ... I don't thnk they did that. It seems like they were caught in a bunch of lies and this is their "excuse".
No real respectable historian would write a book, then admit that he threw in 100 lies, and told you to go do the same research to figure how where he was dishonest.
There is more than enough stuff to point to and not lie. It's insane.
Like I said,
ReplyDeleteNever assume 9Casey has read anything you've written. Big mistake.
Jesus, not the moviemakers the gov't........Thats what is said in the end of the movie .That they blew up the buildings for gold. I assumed you watched it.sorry.......
ReplyDeleteL-girl , what did I write for you to write that?
You for some reason you always think I am trying to twist something...I was trying to get redsock point of view on the movie.... Never even once made a comment to his post , except what he wrote, about the lies......
L-girl said...
Like I said,
Never assume 9Casey has read anything you've written. Big mistake.
edsock doesn't even mention that I assumed anything
L-girl , what did I write for you to write that?
ReplyDeleteI guess we just have a communication problem. You often seem to respond to something other than what people actually wrote.
I'm sorry to have offended you.
If it all happened the way they said, because like you pointed out they admitted to lies, was it really done for the money?
It's been available for free on the web, so I don't think so.
This was a strange exchange!
9Casey didn't mean they made Loose Change for profit.
He meant (I think) that the filmmakers think *9/11 was committed for profit*, and does Redsock agree. Am I reading that right?
"...it was realy done for the money" - meaning 9/11 was committed for profit. (And I suppose not the long-term profit of war in Iraq?) Is that what Loose Change theorizes??? Very strange. I guess we'll have to see it and judge for ourselves how wacky or sober it is.
Yes I was asking Redsock if he agreed with the theory.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to give away the end of the movie. In case you watch it , but it wasn't about the profit on the war.
I misunderstood.
ReplyDeleteNot sure about the gold. Off the top of my head, I remember reading stories about a shitload of gold stored in the WTC complex, but that it was all recovered. (Which could be a lie ...)
I guess I can look at the end of the film online.
I'm sorry to have offended you......No problem
ReplyDelete9casey, you haven't offended me at all.
ReplyDeleteif you get the chance, check out "9/11 - press for truth".
much of it is based on paul thompson's 9/11 timeline. i watched the first hour of it yesterday and was impressed.
it's made for someone who might not be very well-versed in the battle to get a 9/11 investigation off the ground and everything that came out during the various hearings.
and it sticks only to verifible mainstream news reports.
I'm sorry to have offended you......No problem
ReplyDelete9casey, you haven't offended me at all.
9Casey was quoting my apology and then saying no problem to me.
Major communication problems here. :)
Major communication problems here. :)
ReplyDeleteOnly when i'm involved :)
Major communication problems here. :)
ReplyDeleteOnly when i'm involved :)
That's why people use italics or quotes, to show what they're referring to.
9Casey, I'd like to ask you something personal, and I mean no offense by it in any way, merely a question. How old are you? I hope you'll be honest.
His profile shows 34. And he's a CT guy! Waterbury. Nice.
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