| Quote: | Originally posted by bystanderfanzine.com
Ok, now I have to be serious.
My undergrad is in history; history is probably the most important thing in my life. I live for it. This has been such a sticky subject for the last
two years, but the truth is until the American people get their heads out of the sand we are never going to wake up.
The Trade Centers true significance is that it was attack on a major empire on its own soil. Compared to the bombings of Dresden, Hitler?s
extermination of the Jews, Stalin?s political purges, Israel?s Zionist land push and a million other events? the death toll and human suffering is
somewhat insignificant. We lost 4,000 of our people, how many civilians died every day in the Congo? Fuck how many Iraq citizens died the first few
days of bombing in Baghdad? How many children around the world die from cancer caused by the depleted uranium in our ammunition?
The fact of the matter is the world doesn?t care; the world deals with events like this on a daily basis, often as a result of our foreign policy.
Ask the families the Chilean?s who were rounded up, tutored and killed with the help of our CIA, just because they voted in a free election for the
wrong person. It was more then 4,000. Ask the Armenians about how the Turkish rapped and killed with the help of our CIA. America is like the kid in
the emergency room with a cut complaining to the guy who is having a heart attack.
Everybody keeps asking why a bunch of rich Saudi kids flew planes into buildings full of innocent people, but no one wants to hear the answer.
Americans need to stop thinking we are the end all be this entire world, the fact is our comfort is the expense of the rest of the world. You want to
stop terrorism, ride your fucking bike. Every time you fill up your car your funding terrorism.
Also, check the tag on your Never Forget 9/11 and America the beautiful shirts, I bet they say made in Mexico. How many kids live in poverty in our
country because jobs are out sourced? That to me is a tragedy.
One final note before I get attacked. WTC was my train stop on the A. I took it daily to get to work and school, I went to Pace. My sister watched the
planes hit, she had a case at the Federal Court Building. She had to walk 40 blocks home, helping people along the way. My brother-in-law?s building
was hit with debris and luckily he was home. I thank god every day I did not lose a loved one, I know people who did. My sister and I both lost people
we went to High School and College with. NYC was my second home growing up, and I love that city. I am so sick of hicks and idiots marching around in
WTC shirts and waving their flags and at the same time hating the ?liberal big city people.? Seems like people only support NYC if it has to do with
9/11 or the Yankees.
If you want to support NYC because of 9/11 ask your fucking congressmen why North Dakota gets more money per person for anti terrorism then NYC. Ask
your congress person why the federal housing vouchers to get people to re populate the area ended up being taxable, fucking everyone who got them. Ask
you Congressmen why the Vice president made it a personal mission to lower funding for NYC after 9/11.Why aren?t we invading Saudi Arabia, a place
that funds terrorism and is more oppressive then any other Middle Eastern country? If there is one place freedom needs to be spread too, it is there.
Who the fuck cares what some washed up hairdresser writes on the wall of some fucking dressing room. We are so busy fighting over the word liberal and
conservative, that an answer to all these problems is never going to be found. Lets fight with each other more, that?s what the Bush?s and the Bin
Laddens want. They will keep killing people and we will keep arguing, buying their oil and killing the earth. |
Holy cow. Exactly. I could never articulate it that well.
A lot of people have argued the "appropriate" reaction on 9/11, too. I was in an office full of regular people who don't question very much of
anything and get their only news and political debate from regular tv. Everyone was in complete disbelief and insisting it was an accident till the
2nd plane hit except for me. Since I'd started educating myself on politics, I had always wondered why more things like that hadn't happened already.
That doesn't mean I wasn't horrified, worried that someone I knew was there that I didn't know about, that even my family on the island was ok.
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