I must have been one of the few Americans who spent most of that day not knowing it had happened.
I was spending a few days in the emptied house in Crescent City of my recently passed away mother-in-law. No radio, no T.V., no internet. Neighbors were all all strangers and lived hundreds of yards away.
I spent the morning finishing reading Lord of the Rings --which was going to be a movie in the near future.
It wasn't until the middle of the afternoon that I called my wife.
Who told me the Twin Towers went down.
"Oh, you're exaggerating," I said. "You mean part of it fell off, don't you?"
"No...they are both gone."
I still didn't believe her. As I was driving home, I got the eerie sense that every car had it's radio on and we were all living in the same moment. Even on the road, there was a sense of oneness that I can't explain.
And when I finally saw the footage on T.V. it put lie to any idea I might have had that reality couldn't live up to imagination. In my wildest imagination, I didn't see what I was seeing on T.V.
I'd been listening to the radio, but I just didn't get it.
Anyway, yesterday MSNBC ran real-time coverage of the events, so ten years later I finally got a sense of what everyone else went through.
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A tragedy to be sure, but the bigger one is how the US has responded in the last 10 years. We are not a better nation. Many of us are poorer and in more debt.
I agree. I think the whole country had PTS. A nervous breakdown.
Instead of using the tragedy of 9/11 to unite Americans, Bush, Cheney et al. exploited it to divide the nation, branding anyone who didn't support them and their policies 100% as "traitors" and "appeasers." The wound they inflicted by doing that hasn't healed; if anything, it has deepened and festered. And instead of trying to heal it, their successors take every opportunity to inflame it.
OREO & SHRUB(twisted-little): SideBYSide at ground-zero
Brings tears to mee eyes it does.
Finally the siamese twins are joined by common arsehole forever stiched by 911. Hey its USA they use duck-tape.
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Bush and Obama: Side by Side at Ground Zero
New York Times
Fascism is said to be the result when the people no longer have a voice in their government. Certainly that is the case post 911. The 'bankers' now have a license to spy and print money with no regard to the 'little people'.
“The best answer is, I don’t know,” Harper said. “We have had a real breakdown in government and public oversight of government. We have a real secrecy problem in this country.”
How 9/11 Completely Changed Surveillance in U.S.
By Ryan Singel
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See Bruce we have stuff in common!
I always talk about 'fascism', but forget to define, ... so let's remember,
"Fascism is government run by Business"
Bend is essentially a FASCIST city-state, as it is run by the RE biz.
The USA of course is ran by Wall St bankers, .e.g. goldman-sachs... et-al
The 'fascists' greatest fear is an armed populace.
Going to to the toilet can send you to prison.
The big 911 story this week is that a flight to CHICAGO was aided by 2 f16's, because of an alert.
3 people arrested, they had spent too much time in the potty. Well now we're a nation that spy's on each other and narcs on each other. If you fly stay in your seat, only terrorists shit on an airplane.
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