Fear Is Not Welcome Here
Rusty
The message of remembrance and hope you are about to read was written on September 11, 2006 by our friend and colleague Truth in Action. It was composed in response to the demeaning barrage of corporate media hype we were all subjected to on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and expresses the deepest meaning and legacy of that tragedy, with a simple eloquence that is all too rare in this age of contrived emotional displays by tv anchors, hollow tributes, and the shameful pandering of politicians for votes.
"The horror of 9/11 is so beyond anything our nation has experienced before.
I choose to honor those who died on 9/11 by living my life fearlessly.
9/11 and the words fear or terror are used in the same sentence over and over and over again. The whole of the 9/11 event is made to create fear and awe and terror in people.
We in this country have given up too much because of the fear-mongering centered around this event.
I choose instead to remember those who were fearless on that day. In the face of life and death, so many people did brave and heroic things. It is their example that shines forth for me on 9/11 and it is their bravery that I choose to emulate. I am especially reminded of those who chose the horror of jumping to their deaths rather than face the fire inside the buildings, some holding hands and jumping together. I remember being amazed how easy it is to die. Watching this choice over one's death will never cease to affect me.
So much fear and terror spoken about in reference to 9/11 this evening on television.
All this fear comes out of a box that I choose to watch or not. To show the world my power over fear tonight, I simply turned off my television set.
The squacking heads on TV promoting fear and terror were instantly silenced.
For ten years I worked just three blocks away from the World Trade center. While I did not know anyone personally who died in the tragedy that I am aware of, I do know many friends whose lives are horribly altered forever by that day. My heart goes out to everyone affected by it.
For me, personally, in addition to the horror and deep tragedy of the thousands of lives lost and changed forever, I deeply miss the buildings themselves. It feels so trite to say that, but it is almost as if they spoke to me like a powerful entity. I loved spending time in them. They were my shopping center, my health bar, my subway station, my Christmas party, my food court, my path across West 4th Street. There was not a single time that I was in them or around them that I was not in awe of them.
No longer working in Manhattan at the time they came down, I woke each morning after 9/11 with a horrible headache, as if my brain were trying to wrap itself around the scope of the tragedy and just could not take it in.
I'm putting my hand up to fear. You are not welcome here.
Just say no to fear."
Comment # 1 ~ Alma ~ 09/01/2006 00:27 GMT I think Rummys word will cause them to make more enemies than friends. I have heard quite a few conservative republicans pundits come out against Rummys comments. Even mentioning that they are personally offended. I love Boxers amendment tied to the defense bill next week to dump Rummy, even though it is nonbinding, it will show who all stands up for the American people.
Comment # 2 ~ tahoebasha1 ~ 09/01/2006 01:04 GMT Rusty, I believe we have reached the pinnacle of the Rovian treachery.
I had posted this on CB two threads before, remarking on the incredulous stand of Rumsfield, to wit:
"......Rumsfeld alluded to critics of the Bush administration's war policies in terms associated with the failure to stop Nazism in the 1930s, ''a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among the Western democracies.''
Without explicitly citing Bush critics at home or abroad, he said ''it is apparent that many have still not learned history's lessons.'' Aides to Rumsfeld said later he was not accusing the administration's critics of trying to appease the terrorists but was cautioning against a repeat of errors made in earlier eras...."
It doesn't get much more insane than this!
Comment # 3 ~ tahoebasha1 ~ 09/01/2006 01:08 GMT I truly believe we are up against "psychopaths" and overcoming them might get pretty "ugly."
Comment # 4 ~ Rusty ~ 09/01/2006 01:27 GMT I agree, Alma. BushCo's rabid attacks on anyone who criticizes them is beginning to wear thin even with many conservatives.
Comment # 5 ~ Rusty ~ 09/01/2006 01:30 GMT They're going down, Tahoe. It's just a matter of when, and how much damage they'll do before they're hauled off to The Hague for war crimes trials.
Comment # 6 ~ Rusty ~ 09/01/2006 05:39 GMT h
Comment # 7 ~ Rusty ~ 09/01/2006 05:41 GMT I'm not sure how that "h" got there. My apologies.
Comment # 8 ~ Reed31463 ~ 09/01/2006 22:38 GMT Fascist lying pieces of crap. Here is a picture (page 2) of the conspiring assholes way back when they should have been shot.
Comment # 9 ~ Rusty ~ 09/03/2006 18:59 GMT They're going down. If yet another election is subverted, massive civil disobedience will be the only option left. Two more years of this RePug tyranny cannot be tolerated.
Comment # 10 ~ Rusty ~ 09/11/2006 04:59 GMT Rumsfeld threatened to fire any general who dared discuss post-Iraq invasion security. If we had a real media, that would be front page news for 3 weeks.
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