Why do you repeat, time after time, that we are terrorized? We are not. As a people we grieve our dead; we wish life for ourselves and our loved ones, but we are not “terrorized”. Is it perhaps your own coping mechanism, your own cowardice?
Why do you repeat, time after time, that we feel vulnerable? We have always known that. Have you already forgotten all but the youngest adults among us grew up knowing holocaust was 15 minutes away, every minute, every day, every year of our lives? Is it perhaps a realization that you too could die that makes you cry out your cowardice in our name?
Why do you repeat, time after time, that we have lost our innocence? We have long known and lived with the nightmare that some day an American city would see a mushroom cloud in its’ center. However terrible and unexpected the events we have survived, they are as nothing to what we understand we will have to survive and overcome in the future. Is it perhaps your own ignorance or failure to believe the reality of those risks that make you appear as cowards in our eyes?
Why do you repeat, time after time, that we are uncertain about our future? We are not. We will overcome any attack, no matter how deadly, and we will have the resolve to punish those responsible, to hunt them down to the ends of the Earth and kill or imprison them, even if they are crippled old men by the time we find them. Is it your own short attention span that leaves you incapable of understanding that others might take on a task of decades? Is it another sign of your lack of moral fiber and perserverence?
We are none of the things you say in our name. It is your own mirrored image you speak and write of, not ours. Do not speak for me. I am an American; I am proud of that fact; I grieve for my dead and I feel pride in the bravery and spirit and individualism shown by our heroes of that day… but I do not cower in fear and neither do my fellow countrymen.
Silence your fear-palpitated hearts and palsied hands. Listen to our voice. Listen to our spirit and share our strength….but never again tell us we are afraid or uncertain.
I would also ask the media to refrain from saying that “we were all changed by 9/11”. I, for one, have not changed.
What I find so farcical about the media’s wailing is that the same words are used, regardless of the scale or sometimes, the circumstances, of the event. After the abduction and murder in Soham, didn’t we hear the same phrases about loss of innocence, how it will never be the same again, etc?
The word is PROPAGANDA.
If people feel threatened and helpless, they are all the more likely to accept The State’s suffocating embrace.
There’s also the more mundane aspect of deliberately sowing anxiety in the hope of keeping eyeballs glued to the media.
To the Media Talking Heads,
I am a Sovereign American Citizen. I am not terrorized by 9/11, there is no certainty in life, life is not without risk. We are all vulnerable, even Facist Empires. I, for one, lost my innocence a long time ago, as for uncertainty about the future, DUH, there are no gaurentees about that subject, nor will there ever be. So cut the crap, stand up and report what really happened, report the TRUTH!
Willem Hinshawe