>In politics, it not only what you mean, it's
>what you say, and even what you almost say.
>By Churchill's classification, if some members
>of this list happened to work in the WTC, they
>would fall into the category of "little Eichmanns."
>In the Spring before 9-11, I did a talk in the
>WTC in front of a class taught by the very Marxist
>Tom Dickins. We could have been LEs too.
Yup. I talked to Tom's class several times in the WTC. My mother worked there (though she retired long ago). My upstairs neighbor was killed there.
I almost said I'm surprised, then I thought again and realized I shouldn't be, that it's rarely noted in political discourse that those of us who were most directly affected by 9/11 - New Yorkers - are among the least bellicose in the U.S. From the first, there really wasn't much bellowing for revenge coming from the city that was hit. Most of it comes from a heartland that's never going to be hit by anything other than a tornado. The whole anti-terror thing is more about xenophobia and paranoia than self-defense.
Doug