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The terror from within

February 03, 2003 ~ 12:28 a.m.

One major factor contributing to the demise of my recent emotional sickness was the news of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia. That whipped my perspective back into shape, and damn quickly too. The original pride and glory of our revamped space program first saw action in 1981. She served us well. It�s not right to anthropomorphize things, but hell � how can you not feel sadness at her loss?

That�s right. The people. Those poor souls. How long did they know they were in trouble before exploding 40 miles high in the sky? How long did they suffer from sheer terror, knowing their lives might very well go kaput at any moment? No-one will know. All that's being said is that there was a communications blackout and NASA was receiving some strange figures.

Apparently it all has to do with excessive structural overheating, the trouble starting with Columbia�s left wing. Now it�s time to pick up the debris showering all over Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, accept the world�s sympathies, comfort the families of the deceased and launch our investigation into what went wrong.

The latter makes my eyes roll. Investigation! Guess what? The bastards got us again. Add February 1, 2003 to September 11, 2001 and December 7, 1941 as dates that will live in infamy. When the chronology and histology of the explosion is all accounted for and weighed up, I wonder in which direction the arrow will point. Gee, that�s a tough one.

Three relevant facts:

1. Columbia recently underwent a major restoration. Her 22-year-old age cannot be cited as a factor, especially after a previous successful mission a year ago after said renovation.

2. An Israeli astronaut and an army hero, the first Israeli in space, was on the mission. This, in addition to a young graduate student of Indian ancestry. Prime fodder for two perceived enemy states of Islam.

3. The United States is saddled with a liberal do-gooder Immigration and Naturalization Service and is incredibly lax when it comes to processing visas, especially for skilled technical work, that I cannot buy for one moment all this talk that security was extra stringent because of the Israeli astronaut. We cannot say where the sympathies of the possibly many foreign-born shuttle engineers lay. They had access to the shuttle and could have put a controlled detonating device on board.

Any way you slice it, a shuttle exploding upon its re-entry, after a successful mission of international gravity can be seen as another terrorist shock tactic. We have just witnessed the sequel to 9/11, ladies and gentlemen.

Of this I am convinced. The terrorists are 110% guilty until proven otherwise. I know it�s not the American way, but they�re out to take no prisoners. This is the way we as a nation, as the Western world, must approach matters from now on. We truly are not safe anywhere.

And what burns me up more than anything is the fact that the government is already saying �it is definitely not terror.� How the fuck do they know? They don�t know jack shit at this stage.

But it isn't enough the U.S. Government is responsible for the loss in Vietnam, that they�re hiding Roswell evidence which will probably never be released and the truth never fully known, that they punish start-up businesses and married families with punitive taxes, saddle the average citizen with faceless bureaucracies to do almost anything but take a crap, and letting foreign nationals into the country without adequate background checks of any sort.

Americans aren�t safe anymore and it�s not just the terrorists. It�s our own government. If they even dare to declare this an act of non-terrorism, then I believe with all my heart and soul that we are well and truly fucked. Ignorance is bliss, isn�t it, and the new Homeland Security is just a meaningless fa�ade whose purpose is to add to government payroll and increase taxes for its support.

� M.E.M.

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