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...Vidal's essay (published in Italian under the title "The End of Liberty: Toward a New Totalitarianism") is longer than the American version, which has either been revised or sanitized, depending on how you look at it (the original contains a paragraph in which Vidal speculates that the wealthy Osama bin Laden chose to destroy the World Trade Center, which contained the offices of American Express, to avoid having to pay for the airline tickets of the hijackers, purchased with American Express cards...
...freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other" rings, to Vidal, laughably hollow, since these words are coming from a man who, in Vidal's view, is doing more to damage the freedoms he purports to defend than Osama bin Laden could ever hope to do with a fleet of jumbo jets...
...information he promised to add and making several changes in the wording of the information." The resistance from Washington got so bad, she writes, that agents in her office joked that some FBI officials "had to be spies or moles, like Robert Hansen [sic], who were actually working for Osama bin Laden...
...night, the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force--a round-the-clock operation at the New York field office of the FBI--got a call from FBI headquarters. Abu Zubaydah, the highest al-Qaeda official to be captured by the U.S., had told interrogators that he had heard other Osama bin Laden loyalists discussing attacks on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and other U.S. landmarks. But, a federal law-enforcement official told TIME, Abu Zubaydah had said the conversations took place a while back and claimed he knew of no particular plan. Since his capture in March...
...feeling rebellious/ Embarrassed their parents still listen to Elvis/ They start feeling like prisoners, helpless." He says this at top speed with the clarity of Henry Higgins, over music that makes you want to get up and dance. In the Without Me video, he does a jig dressed as Osama bin Laden. Slim's art is offensive, but offensiveness is his art. If you don't think there's value in that, then this is not your album...