Lots of assholes will be jumping on the 9-11 bandwagon today. As you watch them spew their nonsensical and poorly reasoned requests for silence, take a moment and really think about that day and what it means to you and your country. Think about the real heroes that died trying to help save the person in the next cubicle, or who stopped to help a co-worker when they may have made it out in time on their own or the heroes that rushed into the collapsing WTC in the hopes of saving anyone at all. Think about the heroes that tried to clear rubble in the hopes of finding anyone alive at all (and they did). Also think about the work-a-day schlubs that died no more heroically than a simpleton who stumbles out into oncoming traffic, but let's not make them heroes. They're just dead people. Did they deserve to die? Most likely not, but let's try to reserve the word hero just a bit, can we? Think about the sorts of businesses that could afford to have offices in the WTC. Maybe think about the people who worked in the insurance companies, and law offices and financial institutions some of whom made their livelihoods out of dicking over Americans. Not heroes at all, really. Think about what drove men to hijack and crash the planes and the people on board who tried to stop them. Think about a plane smashing into the outer wall of our own Pentagon and then remember the international atrocities which have been planned and executed from that building. Think about what over-reacting to this day's events in the first place has done to our rights and our freedoms. Think about all the people, Americans and otherwise, who have died in our mission to fight something that cannot triumphed over using violence...terrorism. Think about all these things...and the silence will come of its own accord.
Caustic the Clown
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