I am so sick of 9/11 memorials, retrospectives, tributes, charities, ice cream pops, you name it I've had enough of it.
It's been five fucking years people, you'd think by now you'd have gotten over yourselves. But if there's anything powerful people enjoy it's playing the victim, and for the last 5 years people have been creaming their pants over the sweet sweet self-pity and self-
righteousness that they can excuse with three little numerals and a single punctuation mark.
Three thousand people died in an act of terrible murder. Yes, it was indeed a tragedy and a wake-up call...a wake up call that went
un-answered.
9/11 was a direct result of America's apathy and self-interest. We've been in bed with so many different groups only to then jump out and
declare them demons as soon as it suited our purposes that we were way past due for our comeuppance.
Most of the
atrocities Saddam Hussein is on trial for were carried out when he was an ally of the United States and he
committed them with Reagan's blessing and protection.
Remember Rambo III? Remember the clean faced, plucky
Afghan Boy who befriended John Rambo and helped him fight the evil commies? That was Bin
Laddin and the boys. After 9/11 the major TV networks brought the ex-CIA agent who trained Al-
Qaeda as an expert witness and then politely pussy-footed around the fact He was the one who taught them how to make a superpower bleed in the first place.
The public records
released by this administration show that if Bush had just read the goddamn reports on his goddamn desk instead of clearing brush back at the ranch we could have been on alert for terrorist activity BEFORE planes smashed into buildings.
So if we can forget all about how much 9/11 is at least in part our own damn fault, why must we 'never forget' the attack that took place that morning. Most Americans wouldn't even have noticed those 3,000 people were gone if they weren't told every 12 minutes.
More than 3,000 American women die of cervical cancer every year. That's 5 trade centers since the attacks and counting, lives that could be saved if the
HPV vaccine was implemented on a large scale. That vaccine is currently being fought by the
religious right, the same right that supports
bombing the shit out some poor Iraqi's who didn't have anything to do with 9/11 in the name of those who fell from the towers.
If you're so eager to be
indignant and dramatic about a national tragedy how-the-fuck-about Katrina?
WAYYYY more people died there, victims of the
incompetence and indifference of the people who were sworn to protect them. Where's the outrage, where's the commitment to hound those
responsible to the ends of the earth when it comes to this?
But more than all the rest, I am so fucking DONE with assholes using 9/11 and the resulting 'war on terror' to excuse their Racism and
Bloodlust.
If you've ever defended 'interrogation tactics', racial profiling, domestic spying, secret prisons, called the Geneva Conventions 'outdated' or used the phrase 'glass parking lot' I want you to stop and take a deep breath through your nose. Go on, I'll wait....
...smells funny, doesn't it?
That's because you're head's so far up your ass you're breathing shit as well as talking it.
People, if you wanna do something to honor the fallen souls of
the eleventh of September, 2001. Stand up for yourself and the rights that America is supposed to be founded on. Rather than slapping another jingoist sticker on your SUV why don't you get up and make sure that there will still BE an America here for your grandchildren to live in. Why don't you tell the 4
th estate to stop trying to scare you into watching their bullshit and insist that they use
YOUR AIRWAVES to hold
YOUR GOVERNMENT accountable.
Why don't you stop saying 'Never Again, Never Forget' and put your money where your mouth is, and start amending the global fiasco that is
your foreign policy so people stop wanting to smash planes into your buildings,
'cuz until you do anytime anyone invokes 9/11 I'm just gonna know you're a
hypocritical asshole.
