The Air is Thick With Lies

Have we accomlished anything in last two years? At least I think the more intelligent people are becoming aware that the simplistic solution to the crime of 9/11 was not quite right, and the price of this mistake has been high. Our Government didn't carefully indentify and gather enough information against criminals responsible to stand up in authentic, open constitutional trials -- so our government resorted to the alltogether unconsititutional and un-american farce of closed military "tribunals". Our Constitution is being scrapped in the name of "National Security", but you know it's all a scam because their making people feel more insecure all the time! This "war on terrorism" involving "pre-emptive strikes" with whatever sci-fi-horror technology Rumsfeld can get his hands on is terrorizing people more than anything since days of Mussolini and Hitler! God only knows what will be the long-term health effects of weapons Rumsfeld and co. have tested in Afghanistan, Iraq, and New York City.


It was all wrong. Living in lies, denial, media myths and political cover-ups has not taken us where any of us want to be. We have paid a very high price for stupid immature attitudes, and the price in lives and devastation will only increase as time goes by. Those of us who can now identify with Jimmy Breslin's timely manifesto from New York City against the cover-up, should be able to do a bit better. We couldn't possibly do any worse!

THE AIR IS THICK WITH LIES
by Jimmy Breslin

NEW YORK, August 24, 2003: I was a few hundred yards up on Liberty Street when the Two Tower of the World Trade Center blew. I put my nose inside my shirt and ran through smoke that turned day into night. In the smoke were computers, asbestos, pulverized glass, human bodies, lead. I got on another street and One Tower blew up. Again, the air was black with a pulverized 110-story building.

I did not feel well for two months. I never said anything because I was too embarrassed. A couple of thousand had died. So many others were scorched and broken and maimed. I had no right to open my mouth, I thought. Besides, from the first day, the government's Environmental Protection Agency had announced that air was remarkably clean. Work on. Breathe on. You're fine.

They lied. They lied because the administration did not want people not going to work. They lied the first week and they lied the week after that and they have lied every day of the past two years to the people of this city....

I sit here in New York and I don't believe one single solitary word of what the government says. Can you believe anything Bush says? Only if you're a rank sucker. Then you put that Rumsfeld on and he grimaces and tells you the first thing he thinks of, and here is Powell, who I thought would be our first black national candidate and he's as bad as the rest of them....


....The attack on the destroyers never happened. McNamara lied. And the lie grew, and anybody who took the time to build evidence of this was attacked. "This is a just war," Johnson said.

The war blew up 58,000 of our young.

And now we have this administration welding their lies together on two matters: the air you breathe and the war they insist is good for us. We've just dealt with 40 years of lying and death. It is getting worse. "We're winning in Iraq," your poor president says.

Copyright © 2003, Newsday, Inc.

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Many of the "Blue" voters are in NYC.

and it probably affects how I vote sometimes, though I couldn't tell you just how... :)