"What we are seeing here is free market capitalism at it's finest" (Richard "Dick" Grasso on the day Wall Street reopened after the attack on the WTC)

"...It was the Americans, after all, who poured resources into the 1980s war against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul, at a time when girls could go to school and women to work. Bin Laden and his mojahedin were armed and trained by the CIA and MI6, as Afghanistan was turned into a wasteland and its communist leader Najibullah left hanging from a Kabul lamp post with his genitals stuffed in his mouth.
But by then Bin Laden had turned against his American sponsors, while US-sponsored Pakistani intelligence had spawned the grotesque Taliban now protecting him. To punish its wayward Afghan offspring, the US subsequently forced through a sanctions regime which has helped push 4m to the brink of starvation, according to the latest UN figures, while Afghan refugees fan out across the world. All this must doubtless seem remote to Americans desperately searching the debris of what is expected to be the largest-ever massacre on US soil - as must the killings of yet more Palestinians in the West Bank yesterday, or even the 2m estimated to have died in Congo's wars since the overthrow of the US-backed Mobutu regime. "What could some political thing have to do with blowing up office buildings during working hours?" one bewildered New Yorker asked yesterday...." --Guardian, 9/15/01

W.Bush has taken over america by having his brother at the right place to make him president. Then we got the all-new "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropiate Tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism Act" or shortly, the USA-Patriot-Law.
Now, everybody standing up against any form of oppression in the states can be thrown into jail for acts of terrorism and all that shit.

"There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and that this is not a time for remarks like that. … It never is" - White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer

We are at War! Or let's say that's what the trigger happy crowd wants us to believe!

Actually W.Bush has corrected himself already. It's not a war, it's a crusade and no sacrifice is big enough to show those mercyless, faceless killers who they are dealing with.
Just ask the "farmers and ranchers" George W.Bush referred to when he addressed the public for the first time after september the 11th. "Dead or alive" W. said, just like in the wild west, he added, preparing to legitimize any sort of state terrorism that a bunch of honest democrats got rid of back in the 60s.

While everybody keeps mourning, the secret service announced an "intelligence war" and Mr.Rumsfeld asked for: a.) a new unconventional technich of war.( Bollocks! What would that be? More killer squadrons as in all the other dirty little wars the US fought after WWII?)

b.) a fourth secret service working along side with the NSA which officially didn't even exist until things got too obvious. Now we are getting another service in charge of "terrorism", controlling the CIA and the F.B.I. Oh, come on!

c.) being allowed to hire any sort of dirty scumbag for undecover-operations nobody is supposed to know about. That's what they always did, right?

But there we go. It's not a war, it's just a process that has been going on for quite a while.

History has gotten cheap and prepackaged. Good and evil, that's what's left of the world we used to live in. The world under texas state law. Smoke out the left! Violence disguised as justice.

Americans couldn't care less in their isolationsim and that's where it gets dangerous. They look up to their president and trust him, singing their anthem, waving flags for the camera and praying to god. What else are they gonna do? They don't even know where Afghanistan is, hell, most of them don't know where they are themselves if you show them a map of the world! Any unemployed guy in Bangladesh is smarter than you regular joe-next-door in the US.
W wants to make us believe, the only thing americans understand is american football and killing small animals with big guns.

But obviously most people in America are not as stupid as their representative wants us to believe. They simply don't understand why the mayority of the world thinks they are complete idiots who should stick to football and horseback-riding. Most americans have never been in another country where not everybody speaks English and they don't learn languages by themselves because they don't feel a need to communicate with the rest of the world. You know why? Because they are proud to live in a country that is sort of a perfect dictator-rulership.
The guy who was more or less responsible for preparing the world for global warfare is one big hero now, eh? He stole the election, he was hiding when things were happening and he still doesn't know how to deal with it. Some kind of hero.... America fights the popularity-war again! Whew, send in the cheerleaders and the end of the world will be just one giant superbowl. Buy warbonds and you can help fight terrorism too!

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the international tv-coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center has been collected for the real-player: televisionarchive - a library of world perspectives concerning sept.11th

Free Expression After September 11th - An Online Index

A long piece by Nicole Blackman on the WTC.... The Touristguy

Oliver Stone on Sept.11th

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