Eccolo�reality check, Italian style
April 21, 2002 ~ 3:57 a.m.
Earlier in the week, a small aircraft crashed into the Pirelli tower in Milan, Italy. Looking at photos of the �accident,� I was chilled to the bone. How much more like September 11 could it possibly look? A big gaping hole through the top floors of a skyscraper, a skyscraper that has acted as a symbol of financial might just as the World Trade Center had done.
Question: Why are we expected to believe that this was an accident? Plenty of planes have crashed since air travel became an entrenched form of transportation. But how many planes have crashed into buildings before September 11? None, you say? Right! Now, airplanes seem to be crashing into edifices left, right and center, and we�re to believe that it�s just circumstance?
Apparently, the pilot of the doomed flight practiced a Locarno, Switzerland to Milan route regularly in order to sustain his pilot�s license. He was in his early 70s. He contacted the flight tower at Milan�s airport, noting that he was in distress. Witnesses in Milan�s financial district noted that the plane had been emitting smoke just before it crashed.
Yet, I remain skeptical. I can come to only a few conclusions about the pilot in question:
(1) He was sending a powerful message against Italy�s participation in the Euro.
(2) La Cosa Nostra is clearly taking a page from Osama bin Laden�s handbook on how to deal with the much-hated Northern League.
(3) He recently converted to Islam and is conducting a jihad against a Western nation.
Hmmm ... interesting choices, what say you? Mind if I pick number three? No? Oh, I see. It�s fucking obvious, isn�t it?
But not to some people. Claudio Scajola, Italy�s Interior Minister reportedly announced, �we are dealing with an accident, not terrorism.� Signor Scajola, I don�t know what kind of meds you take, but they appear to have limited your ability to interpret the real world.
Signor Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, has ordered an inquiry into the incident. He is right to do so. Berlusconi�s government has taken a tough stance against illegal immigrants, mostly Balkan Muslims, and is an ally to the U.S. in its war on terrorism. If you were in Berlusconi�s position, and a plane flew into an important building in the financial district of your country�s chief city of finance and commerce, what conclusion would you draw? Would you think, �oh, good, just an accident,� or would you show that you�ve got enough brains to learn anything from 9/11?
I quote directly from The Times : �If a terrorist had wanted to hit the heart of Milan, Italy�s financial powerhouse, he could have hardly have chosen a more potent target [the Pirelli building].�
Unlike the WTC buildings, the Pirelli tower still stands. Hopefully, they can patch up the damage to the top floors and business will return to normal. Or as normal as things are ever likely to get.
Just don�t tell me that it�s an accident when a plane crashes into a skyscraper. Before 9/11, it never happened. Keep the following formula in mind: Planes x buildings = terrorism. The people in the Pirelli tower and those on the pavement just below it weren�t wearing rose-colored glasses.
It is up to the Italians and their allies to see reality as well. The civilized world is dealing with madmen. And the pilot of the ill-fated Rockwell Commander plane Thursday evening was one such example.
� M.E.M.
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