Now I am the last person who wants to walk around all stressed out and paranoid about what might happen in this crazy world, but I read something today that made me think of another story I read last week.
Story #1: American Taliban fighter says new attack planned on U.S.
After interrogating this 20-year-old kid, officials say that he mentioned "additional attacks in phases". Seems as though he is being dismissed mainly because they do not believe he would have access to the real information and that even those closely involved with bin Laden did not know the exact details of the attack on September 11th. Walker mentioned specifically that the second phase was to begin at the end of Ramadan, which incidently ends on Sunday.
Okay, yeah, great. I understand their logic. Punk kid out in the wilderness shooting guns for fun. He is essentially a sheep. He follows. He goes where they tell him to go and does what they tell him to do. I would like to believe, as much as the next person, that he is just basking in his fifteen minutes of fame.
But what if he is right?
Story #2: The Telegram Nobody Believed
This is a tale of a 30-year-old refugee from Berlin named Gerhart Riegner. He tried to warn the U.S. about the devastating news he learned from an anti-Nazi German named Eduard Schulte. "According to Schulte's intelligence, Nazi Germany aimed to resolve once and for all the 'Jewish question in Europe.' This goal required the deportation of 3.5 to four million Jews to the East, where they would be 'at one blow exterminated.'"
It is my understanding that it took over a month to get the information into the right hands because people could not believe such a thing could be true. I know it must have seemed like a fantastic story. I mean, who would honestly want to believe that such an idea could be true.
How many people wish that someone had believed sooner?
Story #3: The Sky Is Falling
A tale about the country fowl who believed the sky was falling just because Chicken Little told them it was so. One at a time, they joined the march to the king. Certainly it was true... because a piece of the sky had fallen on Chicken Little.
Email hoaxes of free tickets from Disney and beta-email-tracking programs forwarded to everyone in your mailing list might be a modern day parallel.
I don't really know what to think today.
Song for the Day:
Once Again - from All Around the World
Story #1: American Taliban fighter says new attack planned on U.S.
After interrogating this 20-year-old kid, officials say that he mentioned "additional attacks in phases". Seems as though he is being dismissed mainly because they do not believe he would have access to the real information and that even those closely involved with bin Laden did not know the exact details of the attack on September 11th. Walker mentioned specifically that the second phase was to begin at the end of Ramadan, which incidently ends on Sunday.
Okay, yeah, great. I understand their logic. Punk kid out in the wilderness shooting guns for fun. He is essentially a sheep. He follows. He goes where they tell him to go and does what they tell him to do. I would like to believe, as much as the next person, that he is just basking in his fifteen minutes of fame.
But what if he is right?
Story #2: The Telegram Nobody Believed
This is a tale of a 30-year-old refugee from Berlin named Gerhart Riegner. He tried to warn the U.S. about the devastating news he learned from an anti-Nazi German named Eduard Schulte. "According to Schulte's intelligence, Nazi Germany aimed to resolve once and for all the 'Jewish question in Europe.' This goal required the deportation of 3.5 to four million Jews to the East, where they would be 'at one blow exterminated.'"
It is my understanding that it took over a month to get the information into the right hands because people could not believe such a thing could be true. I know it must have seemed like a fantastic story. I mean, who would honestly want to believe that such an idea could be true.
How many people wish that someone had believed sooner?
Story #3: The Sky Is Falling
A tale about the country fowl who believed the sky was falling just because Chicken Little told them it was so. One at a time, they joined the march to the king. Certainly it was true... because a piece of the sky had fallen on Chicken Little.
Email hoaxes of free tickets from Disney and beta-email-tracking programs forwarded to everyone in your mailing list might be a modern day parallel.
I don't really know what to think today.
Song for the Day:
Once Again - from All Around the World
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