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08/24/2003 Archived Entry: "Breslin: 'Another Lie, One Among Many'"
Breslin: 'Another Lie, One Among Many'
Jimmy Breslin is the quintessential New Yorker. And he is angry.
I was a few hundred yards up on Liberty Street when the Two Tower of the World Trade Center blew. I put my nose inside my shirt and ran through smoke that turned day into night. In the smoke were computers, asbestos, pulverized glass, human bodies, lead. I got on another street and one tower blew up. Again, the air was black with a pulverized 110-story building.I did not feel well for two months. I never said anything because I was too embarrassed. A couple of thousand had died. So many others were scorched and broken and maimed. I had no right to open my mouth, I thought. Besides, from the first day, the government's Environmental Protection Agency had announced that air was remarkably clean. Work on. Breathe on. You're fine.
They lied. They lied because the administration did not want people not going to work. They lied the first week and they lied the week after that and they have lied every day of the past two years to the people of this city.
Christine Whitman was the EPA head until recently. I wasn't disturbed that her education was a jump horse school, but I thought she was better than standing up and doing what she was told by George W. Bush's White House, telling lies to a public who had to breathe this air. Turns out she isn't much of a human being.
The EPA has just admitted that they lied for all this time.....
This lying with the lives of the people of the nation is not solely the habit of Bush and his crew, although it is more widespread and being done in so many cases by so many of their people that it looks like a generation of liars.
This war with Iraq started with the full government standing right up and looking you in the eye and openly lying about why we had to invade Iraq immediately. Bush said the Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction. Why, they were starting to make nuclear bombs. He had a statement about this in his State of the Union speech. When it was shown to be a lie, Bush had people like Condoleezza Rice say, Why are you so worried about 26 words in a speech? That the 26 words were about nuclear weapons seemed beyond her. Out in the streets, you can scare people with only three words:
"Stick 'em up."
And they're going to bring the GOP Convention here next year? They may be re-thinking that before too long - the citizens of NYC are demanding a congressional investigation about the lies regarding air quailty in Lower Manhattan and demanding another round of cleanup in buildings from Liberty Street all the way out to parts of Brooklyn. If the White House continues to ignore them, Madison Square Garden will be under siege during that convention, and there will not be a barricade high enough to keep those angry New Yorkers from being heard. Bet on it.
And they'd better not even think of going anywhere near Ground Zero.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
Well that's not very reassuring.
The day after 9-11-01 (Wednesday) I was working at my office at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue. At about 11:30 in the morning an awful, acrid stench filled the office. I thought the building was on fire. Ater an hour I figured out that the stench was from the WTC wreckage.
On second thought, perhaps that stench emanated from Washington, D.C. Is there NO end to their lies?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 08/25/2003 12:39 PM NY
