Most people who know me know that I am somewhat of a conspiracy theorist regarding 9/11. Actually, I am more of a 9/11 Truth Movement advocate than I am a conspiracy theorist. I am open to the idea of conspiracies but I do not particularly accept them as truth. What I want is the truth of what happened on 09/11/01 and nothing but. I want it in its purest, unadulterated form. I don’t want excuses for why it happened. I know that truth already. What I want is for our “leadership” to explain to us why it was allowed to happen. I want to know how our great government, with all of its resources for preventing such atrocities, allowed this to happen. I want to know why 2,948 people were permissibly murdered and between 71,824 and 78,403 Iraqi civilian deaths have been documented during the time afterward. I want to know why more Americans have been sacrificed to avenge 9/11 than actually died during it. I want to know why 27,004 American men and women have been injured in the line of duty to allegedly avenge 9/11. Can anyone logically explain any of this to me?
The previous paragraph being stated, I suppose you may be wondering why I posted nothing about the anniversary of 9/11 on the day of said anniversary. Well, I didn’t because it wasn’t necessary. It wasn’t necessary because you all know how you feel about it and you do not need me to tell you what to think. I did my grieving yesterday while I watched the minute-by-minute replay of the events of that morning on MSNBC and I didn’t need any blog to do it. Now I’m angry, to put it mildly.
I am angry for all of the reasons that I stated in the first paragraph. I am angry because the Bush administration stood on the shoulders of a national tragedy and attacked an innocent nation. I am angry because the Bush administration did not complete the mission they began in the one nation that actually did harbor the enemy who attacked us. I am angry at the audacity that the Bush administration displays when they tell us that they care about the victims of 9/11, while sacrificing the lives and well-being of our troops in carrying out a war of aggression against a people who did nothing to us. I am angry at the utter hypocrisy of the Bush administration in their decrying of the loss of innocent life in the World Trade Center attacks while causing the deaths of the aforementioned innocent Iraqi civilians. Pot, meet kettle.
I am also angry at the fact that my name as an American is being dragged through the proverbial mud to appease the imperial goals of a group of intellectual troglodytes. To top this off, the rights that so many people fought, suffered and died for are being limited and, in some cases, taken away from me in the name of “security”. I do not need nor desire that kind of security. Life is not meant to be without danger. Life is not meant to be “safe” and without risk. No government can protect me from the dangers that life throws my way and I would not ask the government to do so. This has been proven time and again throughout our relatively short history as Americans. When will we follow the rules of history and the observance of it?
I don’t know about you, but I would much rather die free than live as a slave.
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