Hunter S. Thompson 9/11 Interview 8/29/2002

"Who stands to benefit? Who had the opportunity and the motive? You just kind of look at these basic things"- Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S Thompson on 911

Thompson talked to Mick O'Regan from Radio National's Media Report
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Thursday 29 August 2002



Excerpt: Mick O’Regan: So in that sense, there’s not enough room for dissenting voices?

Hunter S. Thompson: There’s plenty of room there’s not just enough people who are willing to take the risk. It’s sort of a herd mentality, a lemming-like mentality. If you don’t go with the flow you’re anti-American and therefore a suspect. And we’ve seen this before, these patriotic frenzies. It’s very convenient having an undeclared war that you can call a war and impose military tribunals and wartime security and we have these generals telling us that this war’s going to go on for a long, long time. Maybe not so much the generals now, the generals are a little afraid of Iraq, a little worried about it, but it’s the civilians in the White House, the gang of thieving, just lobbyists for the military industrial complex, who are running the White House, and to be against them is to be unpatriotic, then hell, call me a traitor.


Transcript here: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/09/03/1446451.php

Mick O’Regan: At the moment, even in Australia, the media is preparing for the first anniversary of the attacks in a couple of weeks from now. How is the American media preparing to sort of commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11th attack?

Hunter S. Thompson: You would never believe it, it’s so insane. This is a frantic publicity. Every day on television the President’s on TV at least once a day, and celebrations of the dead, the patriots, exposes on Al Qaida, it’s just relentless, in fact 25 hours a day, of just how tragic it was and how patriotic it was, and how much we have to get back at these dirty little swine, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised for as hideous and dumb as it sounds, an invasion of Iraq on September 11, yeah I’ll get out and take a long shot bet on that.

Hunter was off by a few months. On 20 March 2003 the US attacked Iraq.

Born Hunter Stockton Thompson
July 18, 1937 Louisville, Kentucky
Died February 20, 2005 Woody Creek, Colorado

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