American Gangster by Mark Jacobson

Author:Mark Jacobson
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2007-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Ground Zero/Grassy Knoll: 11 Bulletpoints About 9/11 Truth

The attack on the World Trade Center, with its attendant political and moral fallout, is without doubt the biggest story I ever covered. It doesn’t stop. It is a rare day that goes by I don’t think of the events of that nightmarish time. Along with almost every journalist in the City, I’ve written several pieces on the WTC and no doubt will continue to do so. For me, 9/11 time falls into several catagories. The first period is the event itself, the very day when “everything” supposed to have changed. I was there that day, at Ground Zero, arriving a couple hours after the towers fell. I was there when 7 World Trade Center collapsed. I’ll know I’ve got the Alezheimer’s when a day goes by and I don’t think about what happened then. Another part of my version of 9/11 time involves the immediate political fallout, especially the exploitation of the event by the powers that be. The Republican Party’s cynical decision to hold their 2004 nominating convention at Madison Square Garden was an affront to any real New Yorker. The notion that these creeps (fearmongering former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was one of the worst) could use the city as backdrop to push their increasingly disastrous post-9/11 agenda deserved nothing but a stiff middle finger, not the fawning, phony hospitality extended by Mayor Bloomberg. The strongarm policing job done by Commissioner Ray Kelly during the convention, indiscriminately herding non-violent protesters into paddy wagons so people like Dick Cheney would hear nary a discouraging word, ranks as a low point in New York’s long tradition of loud-mouthed democracy. New Yorkers showed what they thought of Bush’s visit by giving him a big-time 16 percent of the vote in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

Past that is what I’d call the inevitable long-range psychology of 9/11, covered in the piece printed below. Conspiracy theory has a bad name these days, and this seems highly judgemental and unfair. It is only human to invent some sort of reason for the inexplicable. This said, if the pieces I’ve written about 9/11 reveal anything, it is that my feelings remain consistent: I experience as a New Yorker first, a citizen of the City. From New York magazine, 2006.

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