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Tue, 12 Sep 2006
Strange Days
First, I didn't write about 9/11 yesterday because I have no desire
to memorialize 9/11. You'll just have to bear with me here; my views
on this are likely to piss off just about everyone.
I think that we should memorialize 9/12 — the day that the
world came together. 9/11 is about a group of theocracy-deranged punk
criminals with box cutters who pulled off a very dramatic act of
suicidal vandalism and murder. It was a criminal act, and should have
been treated as such. On 9/11, we were shocked.
On 9/12, we were one people, world wide, and, properly, good solid
police work was being done to find those responsible. We were all
family on 9/12/2001. We were not afraid, we were full of love and hope
and courage, and we —
billions of us — were determined to make our world safe
from evil, together, as one.
And then, the tiny men, the so-called "leaders" of our country
purposefully turned 9/11 into an act of "terrrism" for political and
monetary profit, and we gave the perpetrators of the act
exactly what they wanted. We were led into a cultural panic,
like so many sheep, by men who found it to be useful to encourage such
behavior. We have savaged our constitution, almost destroyed the
ideals that this country was founded upon, and incurred the enmity of
the world with our swaggering drunken-teenager-with-a-gun schoolyard
bully behavior. We have destroyed our soul.
We had a chance to bring the world together as one human family,
for the first time in history. We have done the opposite. It makes me
physically sick when I think about it too much.
So, no, do not ask me to memorialize 9/11/2001. It is the
darkest day in the history of this country. But not for the reasons
the talking heads on CNN and Fox tell you.
Support your troops. Get them the hell out of there and let the
policemen do their job. We are manufacturing "terrrists" wholesale,
every day, right now.
Seen?
Me and five other guys just did some of the best creative work of
our lives. It's the most satisfying project that I've done in
years. And It'll be publicly available on Friday.
They are called American
Graveyard, and I trusted them to deliver, and they surpassed my
most hopeful dreams. I am proud of that, and really happy to have
helped.
Please have a fine day, all.
Posted at 15:09 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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