Posted On Thursday, September 13th, 2001 By David Veatch
ORIGINAL SCRIPT AND AUDIO COURTESY STANDARD BROADCASTING CORPORATION LTD. © 1973 BY GORDON SINCLAIR PUBLISHED BY STAR QUALITY MUSIC (SOCAN) A DIVISION OF UNIDISC MUSIC INC. 578 HYMUS BOULEVARD POINTE-CLAIRE, QUEBEC, CANADA, H9R 4T2 A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit more »
Posted On Wednesday, September 12th, 2001 By David Veatch
I don’t know which is more tragic, the original attacks on the Pentagon and the NYC World Trade Center, or the aftermath. I’m not talking about the heroic rescue efforts, or the equally heroic generosity of all those who have donated money, time, and/or blood. I’m not talking about the (some would say misdirected and pointless) clampdown on security at airports. I’m talking about the death threats, firebombs, and other violence and atrocity carried out against Muslims in both the U.S. and Canada… all around the world, for that matter. Those that inflict such suffering and anguish are NO BETTER than those that planned and carried out the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon. NO BETTER. Maybe even worse.
Posted On Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 By David Veatch
/. has a thread for personal first hand accounts of today’s events. While not everyone actually posted first person accounts (by definition), I don’t think, in this case it really matters. This is one of the best uses of /. I’ve ever seen. IMHO.
Posted On Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 By David Veatch
CNN has enough coverage on this obscenity that I don’t feel I need to explain what happened… as if you didn’t already know. Instead, at the risk of belittling today’s horrible tragedy, I just want to point out an irony in my life made evident today. Several weeks ago, the building that eScout LLC is located in suffered a bomb threat. We were told to duck under windows and work w/o the lights to avoid the cops kicking us out. Today, 2,000+ miles away, tragically, though completely unrelated to eScout in any way, terrorists bombed our country using commercial jets as missle and fuel, and everyone at eScout was told to go home. When our lives are potentially at risk, we stay. When tragedy strikes half a country away, we go home. That irony and testimony regarding complete misplacement of priorities out of the way, my heart goes out to all those personally affected by the absolutely horrible events that took place 12 hours ago. I hope you can someday find peace…