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October 3, 2001
2001-11-03 12:37:02
Wake up!
Hide the scars and mek them fade away
Here you go create another fable
I don't think you trust
In, my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
Wake up!
I don't think you trust
In, my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
In, my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
Father, father, father, father
Father into your hands,
I commend my spirit
Father into your hands
why have you forsaken me
In your eyes forsaken me
In your thoughts forsaken me
In your heart forsaken, me oh
Trust in my self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
In my self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
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October 25, 2001
2001-10-25 20:47:29
"With insomnia, you're never really asleep;
you're never really awake."
"That old saying, how you always hurt
the one you love, well, it works both
ways."
"And then... something happened. I let go.
Lost in oblivion -- dark and silent
and complete. I found freedom. Losing
all hope was freedom."
"With a gun in your mouth, you speak only
in vowels."
"On a long enough timeline, the survival
rate for everyone drops to zero."
"If you wake up at a different time
and in a different place, could you
wake up as a different person?"
"Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave."
"Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
"I felt like putting a bullet between the
eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its
species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers
and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted
to breathe smoke."
"In the world I see -- you're stalking elk through
the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center.
You will wear leather clothes that last you the rest of your
life. You will climb the wrist- thick kudzu vines that wrap
the Sears Tower. You will see tiny figures pounding corn and
laying-strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of the
ruins of a superhighway."
"We were raised on television to believe
that we'd all be millionares, movie gods,
rock stars, but we won't. And we're
starting to figure that out."
"You are not special. You are not a
beautiful or unique snowflake. You are
the same decaying organic matter as
everything else."
"It's only after you've lost everything
that you're free to do anything."
"We are a generation raised by women.
I'm wondering if another woman is the answer." -
October 23, 2001
2001-10-24 00:10:55
How much do I truly trust my own friends? Are they even my friends? Do friends ridicule other friends of their accomplishments?
Who can I trust? Who can I trust? Who can I tell? Who can I depend on on? To accept me for what I am? For who I am?
Everyday, I watch the clock, I watch the calender....waiting for that day to come. The time when I will be free. May 25, 2002....when I leave my city...when I leave my past....
I can start over again....no past to follow me......no pain to hurt me.
I will be free...be free of my friends....be free to start anew. No one will know me...no one will know my mask....I'll make a new one....I will change myself....change myself.
Why do I want to change myself? Why don't I like myself?
The fear of rejection...the fear of being alone. I don't want to be alone.
Maybe....maybe I should listen to my friends....one of them told me this today:
"I'd rather walk alone then to chase you around, I'd rather fall myself than let you drag me down"
~Carlos -
October 16, 2001
2001-10-17 00:50:46
"Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and Blind and Dumb and Born to follow. What you need is someone strong to use you. Like me, like me. If you want to get your soul into Heaven, trust in me. Don't Judge or Question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do. Deaf and Blind and Dumb and Born to follow. Let me lay my Holy hand upon you. My Gods will become me. When he speaks out, he speaks thorugh me. He has needs like I do. We both want to rape you. Jesus Christ, why don't you come and save my life? Open my eyes and blind me with your lies."
~Tool -
September 11, 2001
2001-09-11 23:03:43
-------------------------------UPDATE----------------------------
President Bush issued a warning Tuesday night to any nation that may be giving refuge to those responsible for the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center and severely damaged the Pentagon.
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them," the president said from the Oval Office of the White House as he promised retaliation.
U.S. intelligence officials told CNN, "There are good indications that persons linked to Osama bin Laden may be responsible for these attacks."
Afghanistan, believed to be the home of bin Laden, denied he was connected to the attacks.
Asked if bin Laden was a suspect, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "It's not the time for discussions like that."
Other U.S. officials said that while the focus is on bin Laden, they have not ruled out other suspects.
They also said they believe more threats exist. Pentagon sources told CNN that all U.S. military sites around the world have gone to ThreatCon Delta, which means that a terrorist attack has occurred or an attack at a specific location is likely.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said there were "no specific warnings" before the attacks.
Although officials said the attacks appeared to have been well planned and executed, a passenger on the plane that hit the Pentagon said in cell phone call to her husband that the terrorists were armed with knives and box cutters.
The passenger was Barbara Olson, a CNN commentator and wife of Solicitor General Theodore Olson.
"We will expend every effort and devote all the necessary resources to bring the people responsible for these acts -- these crimes -- to justice," Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday evening.
The president suggested how many people may have been killed in the attacks when he said "thousands of lives were suddenly ended."
American Airlines Flight 11, carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members en route from Boston to Los Angeles, slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m.
About 15 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175, also en route from Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers and nine crew members aboard, crashed into the south tower.
It is not yet known how many of the estimated 40,000 to 50,000 people who may have been in the World Trade Twin Towers were killed when the two planes exploded and eventually turned both 110-story structures into piles of rubble.
Hours later, fire caused another building, 7 World Trade Center, to collapse. It had been burning since shortly after the planes stuck the Twin Towers. Other nearby buildings are ablaze in the area.
Asked how many people he believed were killed, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "I don't think we want to speculate about that -- more than any of us can bear."
Almost 300 emergency personnel in New York -- 78 missing police officers and 200 firefighters -- are presumed dead along with the 266 people on the four hijacked airplanes.
There is no word on fatalities at the Pentagon, where part of the complex collapsed after a Boeing 757 jet plowed into it at 9:45 a.m. Witnesses said the plane hit what is known as the "Army Corridor."
FBI sources said the aircraft was an American Airlines flight that had been hijacked after taking off from Washington Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles.
At least 53 people were injured, some severely, in the attack on the Pentagon, where about 24,000 people work. All secretaries and military chiefs of the service branches are alive and have been accounted for, authorities said.
A fourth aircraft, United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey, headed for San Francisco, crashed in a wooded area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Police said there were no survivors. There were 38 passengers, five flight attendants and two pilots.
"The plane is thoroughly disintegrated," Jim Marker of Somerset County's 911 Emergency Management Center told CNN. "There are no remains, no survivors.
Senior FBI sources said, "There is no doubt the planes [all four] were hijacked."
Intelligence sources told CNN there were indications of attempts to divert the United flight from Newark to crash at Camp David, Maryland, the presidential retreat. It is unclear how that plan may have been thwarted.
U.S. military officials said none of the planes were shot down by U.S. aircraft.
Federal Aviation officials said they were aware at the time the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center that a plane had been hijacked.
They did not know that specific plane was involved. Callers from two of the other hijack planes called on cell phones to say their planes had been hijacked.
James Kallstrom, the retired FBI agent who led the investigation into the explosive crash of TWA 800 in July 1996 that killed 230 people, said he believed the hijackers must have flown the planes into the buildings themselves.
"I can't imagine any American pilot crashing an airplane into one of these buildings, even with a gun to the head. They wouldn't do that," said Kallstrom.
"You've got people that not only are willing to give up their lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane."
The U.S. military went on full alert. Two aircraft carriers left the Naval base in Norfolk, Virginia, in response to the attacks to provide upgraded air defense for New York and Washington.
Officials in Washington said a "Continuation of Government" plan had been activated. The activation involves a fortified facility at Mount Weather, Virginia. There was no word whether any of the U.S. leadership or ranking military officers had been taken to the facility.
The city of Washington declared a state of emergency.
"The Pentagon is functioning. It will be in business tomorrow," Rumsfeld said.
Members of Congress were quick to blame bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire blamed for bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa. He is believed to be based in Afghanistan.
"This looks like the signature of Osama bin Laden," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who said he had been briefed by officials at the highest levels of government.
Hatch added: "We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards."
"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States," said Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona.
In Kabul, Afghanistan Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmed Mutawakkel said, "We in Afghanistan do not allow Osama bin Laden to use Afghan territory to launch any attack on any government around the world."
He said the Afghan government had taken away bin Laden's communication devices, "and he has not been in touch with anyone outside Afghanistan."
Mutawakkel said the Taliban will conduct its own investigation. "We will determine what really happened. We denounce this terrorist attack, whoever is behind it."
Hours later, explosions and flames lit up the night sky over Kabul, provoking speculation the city was under by the United States forces in retaliation.
Rumsfeld denied any U.S. involvement and a senior Taliban ministry official said the attack on an ammunition dump came from two helicopters flown by a rebel group called the Northern Alliance.
Security tightens in U.S.
The attacks in the United States set off security alarms across the nation. Federal government buildings in Washington, including the White House, were evacuated.
Airports in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the destinations of the planes involved in the incidents, were evacuated. The city of San Francisco declared a state of emergency. California government offices also closed.
The U.S. House of Representatives planned to convene Wednesday in a symbolic gesture to show the government is not shutting down.
For the first time in U.S. history, the Federal Aviation Administration closed airports nationwide, halting the 36,000 to 40,000 takeoffs that occur daily. It diverted a number of trans-Atlantic flights to Canada.
By midafternoon all domestic flights that had been in the air when the closings were order had landed, said FAA spokesman Less Dorr.
"The earliest the national groundstop will be lifted is noon tomorrow [Wednesday]. And that's at the very earliest," said Dorr.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service went on highest alert along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico.
This is distrubing.......
~Carlos
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