IP: re freedom

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Subject: Re: IP: Re: Read it and be real worried -- [And we need a missile 
> shield !! ]-- Pentagon Tracked Deadly Jet but Found No Way to Stop It
> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:15:01 -0400
> From: Matt Blaze <mab () crypto com>
>
> Norman MacLeod Writes:
> > >
> > >It's particular galling that the New York Times and some other media
> > >outlets are second-guessing what was happening in the Pentagon's command
> > >center in the hour before AA 77 was flown into the building. Their
> > >reporters were not there. Whatever the inefficiencies were in place as 
> the
> > >result of the legally required civilian-military spheres of control, our
> > >nation could do with a little less public Monday morning quarterbacking
> > >right now. One of the primary keys to preventing future terrorist acts is
> > >to present a unified face that demonstrates a lack of success in terms of
> > >generating long-term disunity and ineffectiveness in generating a 
> response.
> > >
>
> I can't comment on the substantive merits of any "second-guessing" that's
> occured, but I'm disturbed by the suggestion that it shouldn't be going on.
> It is possible - arguably it is our duty - to demand an accounting from
> our leaders at the same time that we support them.
>
> I cannot think of a more eloquent demonstration that our democracy has
> survived intact than the lively public discourse in which we, and the
> media, are now engaged.  It is when this stops that we will have signaled
> to our enemies that we are in trouble.
>
> -matt



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