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November 2nd & 3rd 1985: Anniversary of the Alien Squid attack on Manhattan

posted 5 years ago by NorrinRad (5470)
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November 2nd, 1985 is the day that almost half of New York was destroyed by the sudden appearance of a giant Alien Squid. The prospect of extraterrestrial invasion caused both the American and Soviet governments to reconsider the escalating conflict of the Cold War, and brought about a new age of peace and prosperity.

What nobody but Dan Dreiberg and Laurie Juspeczyk knew, however, was that the alien was, in fact, a horrible cloned monster, created by Adrian Veidt, specifically to end the tension between the US and Russia. Rorschach was killed by Dr. Manhattan before he could get back to civilization, so Ozymandias' terrible secret was safe, for one whole year.

When the clock struck 12:00 am is when the attack occurred which essentially was the date of November 3rd.

The 3rd episode of Watchmen ironically will be aired tomorrow Nov. 3rd. I don't think in series the dates are the same but I believe that the officer who is shot states that it is September 2019 in the first episode.

[–] NorrinRad (5470) 5 years ago

My Smart TV had the youtube app open and autoplay was on. I wasn't actually watching anything and was doing some paperwork at home. I had searched the Tulsa Massacre previously so of course it was in my search history and would become part of "Recommendations For You".

The program "Democracy Now!" starts playing on the TV the following based on another odd November 3rd coincident/incident involving the Klan which caught my attention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre.

The incident happened 40 years ago and the station was reporting on the aftermath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aYuqI_69g0

The "Law" was found to have assisted the Klan and did not protect all of the citizens and as a result the following:

Two criminal trials of several Klan and ANP members were conducted: six men were prosecuted in a state criminal trial in 1980; five were charged with murder. All were acquitted by an all-white jury. A second, federal criminal civil rights trial in 1984 concluded with the acquittal of the nine defendants. In the first trial, the jury concluded that the defendants acted in self-defense. In the second trial, the jury concluded that the defendant's actions were based on political, rather than racial, motivations.