A little bit of history...
Gave my desk a thorough cleaning today and found a newspaper from November 11, 2001 jammed in the back behind a drawer. Reading a newspaper that is almost 5 years old is quite interesting (although it makes you ask yourself if it can still be called a newspaper, as nothing in it is new, so much as it is new again) especially considering what an important date it holds. This paper is 2 months after New York was blown up, and about a month after the war in Afghanistan began. It's interesting to see the different take on many things.
If we knew then what we know now. But as that is impossible, I offer a more tangible goal to reach for... If we remembered now, what we knew then.
I don't think there is a single person that can forget Sept. 11, 2001. But what about Sept. 18th? That is one week after the twin towers came down, and the day that the Anthrax letters started.
"Oooohhhh yeah!!! The Anthrax letters. Forgot all about those." And so had I until I read this paper where the FBI (whose real agents can never live up to Mulder and Scully) released this brilliant profile of the mailer: "a man familiar with hazardous material, and a possible grudge against the letters' addressees." I see American tax dollars are hiring only the best minds of the country.
Anyhoo, I start to think about the fact that the Anthrax mailer seems to have fallen right out of the newspapers. Don't think I ever heard of anyone being caught, could it be like a Jack the Ripper kinda thing, where the government is covering up for one of it's own? So I'z doez some diggin and come by this interesting article that makes ya wonder... who does control the press, anyway?
I remember that after the twin towers, Dubya could do no wrong. Every paper and news show was behind him, covering up his blunders, not reporting his lies, and it was the first time in forever that that had happened. Now we have to ask the question, what is intentionally being left off out dinner plates in the hopes that we forget we once had it? Stop reporting on the Anthrax mailer and we eventually forget he existed.
Hey... didn't I used to eat steak? Memories are slowly starting to come back.
If we knew then what we know now. But as that is impossible, I offer a more tangible goal to reach for... If we remembered now, what we knew then.
I don't think there is a single person that can forget Sept. 11, 2001. But what about Sept. 18th? That is one week after the twin towers came down, and the day that the Anthrax letters started.
"Oooohhhh yeah!!! The Anthrax letters. Forgot all about those." And so had I until I read this paper where the FBI (whose real agents can never live up to Mulder and Scully) released this brilliant profile of the mailer: "a man familiar with hazardous material, and a possible grudge against the letters' addressees." I see American tax dollars are hiring only the best minds of the country.
Anyhoo, I start to think about the fact that the Anthrax mailer seems to have fallen right out of the newspapers. Don't think I ever heard of anyone being caught, could it be like a Jack the Ripper kinda thing, where the government is covering up for one of it's own? So I'z doez some diggin and come by this interesting article that makes ya wonder... who does control the press, anyway?
I remember that after the twin towers, Dubya could do no wrong. Every paper and news show was behind him, covering up his blunders, not reporting his lies, and it was the first time in forever that that had happened. Now we have to ask the question, what is intentionally being left off out dinner plates in the hopes that we forget we once had it? Stop reporting on the Anthrax mailer and we eventually forget he existed.
Hey... didn't I used to eat steak? Memories are slowly starting to come back.
posted by Akira Sundance at 11:15 AM
1 Comments:
mikey how the hell are ya?
great i hope. haven't touched base in awhile... i was in korea for the summer and a stopover in beijing... i'll be back next year... if you're still in japan around next july or august i'll drop in for a weekend adventure. ciao meng.
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