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Post by freedom12 on Aug 24, 2011 17:09:11 GMT -6
Well, they responded and said they would accept it, but not sure if it will be a "guest" column or a letter.
Butters- I wouldn't let you critique a nursery rhyme. I'm sure the FBI has bigger targets than me to worry about. Upwards of 30,000 "truthers" will be converging on Ground Zero for the 10th anniversary.
I suppose you knew the firefighters from 9/11 won't be allowed to participate right? What a crock of sh%t that is.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2011 17:46:05 GMT -6
Well, they responded and said they would accept it, but not sure if it will be a "guest" column or a letter. Butters- I wouldn't let you critique a nursery rhyme. I'm sure the FBI has bigger targets than me to worry about. Upwards of 30,000 "truthers" will be converging on Ground Zero for the 10th anniversary. I suppose you knew the firefighters from 9/11 won't be allowed to participate right? What a crock of sh%t that is. You're already in their "nut job/low priority" file...count on it.
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Post by freedom12 on Aug 24, 2011 17:53:24 GMT -6
I'm sure they don't care about some chatter on SO and are more concerned about the guns I own.
Besides, Alex Jones and many others are wa bigger targets. A lot of people think AJ is a disinfo agent anyways.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2011 17:57:07 GMT -6
I'm sure they don't care about some chatter on SO and are more concerned about the guns I own. Besides, Alex Jones and many others are wa bigger targets. A lot of people think AJ is a disinfo agent anyways. Can't wait for your Times guest piece - you'll be "outed" by it. Name, address, picture. Yep.
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Post by freedom12 on Aug 24, 2011 18:16:25 GMT -6
I got no problem with that. As I wrote earlier, I was the LaSalle Co Fair and talked to lots of folks there. Some were curious, some had no idea about much of the events of 9/11, and others gave dirty looks. Been there, done that many times before.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2011 18:31:00 GMT -6
I got no problem with that. As I wrote earlier, I was the LaSalle Co Fair and talked to lots of folks there. Some were curious, some had no idea about much of the events of 9/11, and others gave dirty looks. Been there, done that many times before. Right.
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Post by FZ on Aug 25, 2011 6:56:17 GMT -6
You know, I think if you keep everything non-accusatory and focus on the questions, not so much trying to give answers, I think an interesting article could be written.
I'll be honest, I think the paper will look at the piece carefully...It's a controversial subject. But, if someone thinks its too controversial, over the top, or inflammatory, I don't think they'll consider printing it. Especially this close to 9/11.
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Post by freedom12 on Aug 25, 2011 15:53:55 GMT -6
That's what I planned on doing FZ. No accusations, questions about the symetrical fall of WTC 7 from unsymetrical fires, questions about the size of the impact hole in the Pentagon and lack of footage of the "plane" that hit it, how and why our air defenses failed so miserbly that day, and maybe throw in some former government officials who side with me. How everything that happened that day took away more of our freedoms. The wars and failed policies that came from it. Any other suggestions are welcome!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2011 9:01:07 GMT -6
You know, I think if you keep everything non-accusatory and focus on the questions, not so much trying to give answers, I think an interesting article could be written. I'll be honest, I think the paper will look at the piece carefully...It's a controversial subject. But, if someone thinks its too controversial, over the top, or inflammatory, I don't think they'll consider printing it. Especially this close to 9/11. This part of your reply speaks volumes. The Truther movement doesn't provide answers, anyway. Their shtick is posing as many hypotheticals that they can possibly generate and positing these million-and-one questions as their positions.
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Post by freedom12 on Sept 3, 2011 13:40:07 GMT -6
Can someone explain why the first responders and firemen will NOT be allowed to participate in the 10th anniversary of 9/11??
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2011 15:36:48 GMT -6
Can someone explain why the first responders and firemen will NOT be allowed to participate in the 10th anniversary of 9/11?? Go ahead and tell us.
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Post by freedom12 on Sept 3, 2011 15:59:32 GMT -6
I guess you'd have to ask Mayor Bloomberg?
First responder John Feal, founder of an advocacy group for the police officers, firefighters, civilian volunteers and others who worked at ground zero, assailed Brent’s response, saying Bloomberg “lives in his own world.”
“The best of the best that this country offered 10 years ago are being neglected and denied their rightful place,” Feal said.
Yet first responder Morris Faitelewicz, vice president of the Auxiliary Police Supervisors Benevolent Association, called that explanation “nonsense.” Faitelewicz said that, while there are not usually formal invitations, first responders have been able to attend all of the previous ceremonies simply by showing up.
Denise Villamia, a first responder who worked at ground zero for several months, cried over the phone as she recalled her “totally heartbroken” reaction to the news that she could not attend the memorial service.
“I’m crying because it’s really a big betrayal on the part of the city, to rob me from my way to pay homage and to find that comfort and healing,” she said. “I feel that I have been robbed of my way to pay tribute.”
Not allowing them to attend this year — the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks — is an especially galling affront, he said.
Giebfried has suffered from a failing liver and kidneys, a crushed arm, elbow and wrist; post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue, encroaching lupus and other diseases. All were caused by the dust, debris and other substances to which she was exposed on 9/11, she said.
On that day, Giebfried, an emergency medical technician at the time, was twice entombed in sheared building fragments, and twice escaped.
She and her partner, Jennifer Beckham, transported people to safety and set up makeshift triage stations. She watched bodies hit the ground and explode “like a bouncing ball,” and suffered three asthma attacks through a harrowing day of devastation.
Giebfried said her ongoing medical travails have disabused her of the belief that the United States honors and looks after its service members. Being excluded from the memorial proceedings was yet another confirmation of this, she said.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2011 16:03:01 GMT -6
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Post by freedom12 on Sept 3, 2011 16:17:13 GMT -6
So you're agreeing it's wrong to do this.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2011 16:57:31 GMT -6
So you're agreeing it's wrong to do this. No. There is going to be a later ceremony for the 1st responders and firefighters. I think the tone of each one will be different, don't you?
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