There are all "givens" to the rest of us - I am trying to fit these arguments into Donald's Reality Distortion Field.
//Alif On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:41:45 -0400 > From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Airport insanity > > Let us not forget the more tangible 'value' in bombing the WTC and messing > up things downtown. First of all, the companies in the WTC were, to say the > least, impacted (actually, the company I work for lost 11 people and > relocated to NJ for about a year)....hitting them (and their workers) was > probably not considered "collateral damage" by Al Qaeda, any more than > bombing German or japanese urban production centers was considered that for > the allies in WWII. Next comes the financial district and Wall Street as a > whole. The third (and as it turned out by far the most impactful) was the > destruction of the Telecom Central Office in #4 World Trade Center, along > with bringing off-line the big Verizon CO across the street. These actually > caused Wall Street to be knocked off line for several days, an impact that > is hard to underestimate. And while I suspect that Al-Qaeda were probably > unaware in advance of the impact on Telecom, the rest was certainly a > conscious decision. > > -TD > > >From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: Airport insanity > >Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:14:22 -0500 (CDT) > > > >On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: > > > > > "James A. Donald" > > > > > All of the terrorists came from countries that were > > > > > beneficiaries of an immense amount of US help. Saudi > > > > > Arabia was certainly not under attack. If they were > > > > > Palestinians, and they hit the Pentagon but not the two > > > > > towers, then they would be defending themselves. > > > > > > John Kelsey > > > > I'm still trying to understand the moral theory on which you > > > > differentiate hitting the two towers from the Oklaholma City > > > > bombing. > > > > > > The pentagon did not have a branch office in the two towers. > > > BATF had an office in the Murrah building. > > > >Bzzzt! Try again. > > > >There were a number of federales in the towers, INCLUDING atf, all the > >various branches of the armed services, and a large number of spook proxy > >points. > > > > > > > > So they killed a whole bunch of people, most of whom had > > > > nothing to do with what they opposed, but surely including > > > > people who were doing business with Saudi Arabia and Israel. > > > > > > Was McViegh targeting people who do business with BATF? > > > > > > Besides which the terrorists did not target them for doing > > > business with Israel, but for "World Trade" - globalization and > > > all that. > > > >Personal knowledge? > > > >-- > >Yours, > > > >J.A. Terranson > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >0xBD4A95BF > > > > "An ill wind is stalking > > while evil stars whir > > and all the gold apples > > go bad to the core" > > > > S. Plath, Temper of Time > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get ready for school! Find articles, homework help and more in the Back to > School Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04backtoschool.armx > > -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF "An ill wind is stalking while evil stars whir and all the gold apples go bad to the core" S. Plath, Temper of Time
