Posted on 11/30/2015 4:57:17 AM PST by SJackson
A few people trying to drag truth out of the quicksand.
Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down, too. On the news, in Idaho. It doesn't take a physical presence to observe something. I watched via television.
Also, there were posts here on FR at the time that specifically mentioned these types celebrations. So, from my lowly little hovel in Idaho, I was able to both observe the attacks, and read about muslims celebrating it here in the United States. I didn't have to be in two places at one time.
You ARE naive. ..Somalians celebrated in Seattle
There were at least two Freepers who lost their lives to the terrorists that day. I had joined FR just a little while before that fateful day so at the time I wasn’t too familiar with anyone at that point. However we should never forget.
RIP Barbara K. Olson and John Moran
Absolutely! Their loss was shocking.
Have fun.
The Jersey City riots can be in the archives just like the planes hitting the World Trade Buildings. Never to be played again so we don’t offend the very people who caused the destruction.
I will never forget it.
Go and reproduce asexually MSM.
5.56mm
Whom are we to believe? The media and establishment pubs and dems or Trump?
See you at the top President Trump!!!!!!
Do you know that there is this thing called TV?
Not a lot of video’s of blacks cheering in the streets about OJ ‘beating the rap’ for killing his white wife either... Yet they were very common at the time.
But that's what Trump said. He'd seen thousands and thousands demonstrating in Patterson, New Jersey. But to date nobody has been able to find the TV clips he says he saw.
I was in college during 9/11 and I can remember seeing the clips of overseas celebrations, particularly the ones in the Palestinian areas, and how infuriating they were. I dimly remember them talking about the Muslim population in the U.S. but don't recall if it was about demonstrations in favor of 9/11 or if it was just that there was no reactions from them, for or against. Regardless, Trump and his supporters are really grasping at anything that might show that Trump could possibly be kind of correct when he claims the demonstrations ran into the thousands. To date I haven't seen anything to support his claim, and all the reports on actual demonstrations say they were small and sporadic.
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
We DO??
Whatever for?
We KNOW why 'some' celebrated!
Oh?
I saw the WTC coming down and was in Indianapolis at the time!
I forget who originally said it but 1984 was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual.
Quite so. In GR, the young thugs at the time (most of whom have no doubt gone on to great careers leading to prison time) thought Mark Fuhrman should be put on trial, which of course makes no sense. He didn’t frame OJ, OJ did it, but the morons in the so-callled justice system didn’t want a repeat of the Rodney King riots, so instead of a jury of his peers, OJ got a jury from the ‘hood.
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