Thursday, August 02, 2007

I repeat, It was NOT an act of Terrorism

I try to get my dose news every morning by reading the widely distributed Metro while on the subway. The picture of the collapsed bridge over the Mississippi river caught my attention, and I was curious to know as to what had caused the disastrous collapse. I read the short article eagerly waiting the conclusion. I anticipated something along the lines of “lack of maintenance and poor design lead to the collapse.” But to my disappointment there was no information on why the bridge collapsed, rather, there was information on what hadn’t caused collapse. The article read “The U.S. Homeland Security Department had no indication that the collapse was related to an act of terrorism,” which of course made the event much more tolerable. People have no fear, the Homeland Security Department is here!

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posted by x @ 5:39 PM   7 comments

7 Comments:

  • At 8/03/2007 3:45 AM, Blogger Yazan said…

    Exactly Omar. Youve hit a serious nerve.

    In the last explosion that killed 15military personnel in syria [yes, 15 people died, and the biggest coverage was a 400 words article in the inner pages of our local news], people felt it is less tragic, just because it is not an act of terrorism.

    While right on the opposite, I felt a lot more outraged, and disgusted, because it was a human error. Theres a huge chance these people didnt have to die.

     

  • At 8/03/2007 9:59 PM, Blogger Ted said…

    I read in a Russian news paper it was VLF (very low frequency) transmissions which brought it down.

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  • At 8/14/2007 10:17 PM, Blogger x said…

    Yazan, aside from what you pointed out, I felt that the articke was trying to relate terrorism to the bridge collapse by merely mentioning it. It further instills fear in people's hearts and makes them think of terrorism as a suspect for all things that go wrong.

    ted, welcome to the blog and thanks for the link. I will add yours to my list soon. Glad to see people like you blogging about things that matter

     

  • At 8/15/2007 10:09 AM, Blogger poshlemon said…

    Omar, I personally do not think this article instills fear as much as it follows the current trend of either negating or confirming an incident's relationship with terrorism.

    I understand why the article flowed along these lines. People are terrified and almost every action calls for one main question: was it an act of terror? As a reader, I want to read that it is not.

    Nevertheless, I agree with you. There is a hidden agenda. There is this great want for the current U.S. administration to constantly remind people of the impending presence of terrorism. This, in turn, is an effort to indirectly legitimize America's recent 'wars on terror' and the country's deteriorating economical status. This way people, subconsciously, find it easier to accept the American administration's agenda. It is a very intelligent technique to silence the people.

     

  • At 8/20/2007 8:43 PM, Blogger x said…

    well said poshlemon

     

  • At 8/22/2007 3:48 PM, Blogger Solomon2 said…

    My first degree is in mechanical engineering and I will say that although I have made speculations, it was totally unreasonable to instantly expect to trace the cause of the collapse unless it was an obvious act of terrorism. That said, I don't doubt that the cause will eventually be found, because all the pieces are right there.

     

  • At 8/29/2007 11:24 PM, Blogger x said…

    solomon, I am majoring in Mechanical Engineering, and the last thing that came to mind was terrorism..

    There are so many more mechanical reasons why a bridge could collapse besides an act of terrorism. Just check the story behind the iron ring that engineers in Canada wear

     

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