As wise and as clever as I am, I've never fully understood the generally acceptable and very broad gap between official "truth" and reality. Some days you find yourself staring directly into the sun while our politicians confidently describe it as the moon or even a turnip. No one questions this. The press reports it as a turnip while the blazing sun burns their collective retinas to a crisp. I have no idea why I thought of a turnip; perhaps it is because a turnip metaphorically makes as much sense as the nonsense daily dished out by American officialdom. The latest case in point is the once ridiculously named Freedom Tower aka the world's largest target, commonly known as the World Trade Center. Today's New York Times suggests what has been obvious to anyone with eyes for about ten very long years.
New York City's Mayor of Fantasyland, Mike Bloomberg has been boasting for a decade that he is not only restoring the world's most famous symbol of freedom, he is rebuilding neighorhoods, returning the vibrancy of New York street life to this former war zone. In reality, his neo-fascist administration has built a fortress memorial to freedom, a concept long since buried under a mountain of national security measures, laws, regulations, drones, cameras and armed goons.
The vibrant New York City neighborhood street life translates into barricades, barriers, securty cameras, concrete and steel walls, heavily armed uniforms, endless security checkpoints and the occasional garden of barbed wire.
Mike's revitalized lower Manhattan neighborhood is a ne0-fascist high tech security zone. Kudos to the johnny-come-lately New York Times for finally realizing this.
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