Re: [ILUG] [OT] FYI: Newsflash

From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Tue 11 Sep 2001 - 16:03:45 IST


begin Noel Carroll quotation:
> I really hope there wasn't 50,000 people at work at the time. Thats just
> way, way too fucked up. Anyway, why the WTC? I wouldn't have figured it to
> be a centre or symbol of Americanism?

1. It's big.
2. It's therefore easy to aim at.
3. And has lots of people in it.
4. And makes for a photogenic explosion.

Er, make that "was', rather than "is".

> Aside from that, how do you coordinate something so big without any US
> intelligence finding out?

They're busy crafting excuses and searching for scapegoats, as we speak.
That's always the first order of business, in these cases.

> This is so bad, considering George Bush Snr's little gulf war jaunt
> over Kuwait, one wonders what dubya is going to do.

Eliminate civil liberties, silly.

Oh, and require everyone to use MS-Windows XP.

-- 
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Rick Moen                                   Pillage first, _then_ burn.
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