Jimmy Breslin-Another Lie, One Among Many

[realFedUp]

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/nyc-bres0824,0,1315702.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

Another Lie, One Among Many
Jimmy Breslin

August 23, 2003, 5:33 PM EDT

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.

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[oneighty]

1. Good observations.

Thanks realFedUp.

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[pansypoo53219]

2. 04'

is looking to very interesting. 1st mistake, politicizing 9/11. now its time for the bushivic house of cards to come tumbling down.

[realFedUp]

3. glad the dust finally cleared so they could see.

different perspective on 9/11 from out here...it
was a crime, not a war.

[ewagner]

4. WOW Good read

Thanks for the post!

Do you think Breslin is preaching to the chior or do you think this will be more widely dissemintated?

[Hand]

5. He's widely read....

At least in the New York area and probaboy the northeast generally. Breslin's a journalistic icon--Been around forever and has never let up. He's a tough Irish Catholic newspaper man out of the old school (back when journalists were wroking-class tough guys)--check out some of his comments on the church hierarchy and their continuing decadence for a really good read!

[NJCher]

6. why do they lie?

I think there's a difference in the motivation of the JFK lie and the bush lies. One should not ascribe
motivation but if I had to, I would venture that JFK's lie was to prevent people from panicking.

bush's lie in the air/WTC issue is that they wanted people to go to work. Imagine--thousands of
people drawing Workman's Comp. Employers having to retrain and go to the expense of hiring new people.

I don't want to be lied to but I don't think all lies can be grouped together.

About six months ago I had a chat with one of the women who staffs the circulation desk
at our local public library. She told me she had worked at the WTC for a government
environmental agency. Thankfully she was not at the WTC on that day but in the course of
her work, she said this agency has been litigating with the WTC over hazardous building supplies
that were used in the construction. An example was that asbestoes was used. She said they
had only recently reached an agreement on it. So at the very least, these people were breathing
a lot of asbestoes.

Still, it was a great column. I feel for Breslin, his colleague and everyone down there who
breathed that air.




Cher

[realFedUp]

7. Bush Inc. lies protect themselves, JFK protected Americans

course I'm sure that Bushies would lie about that
also.