Apologydue, I generally do not engage in argument, at least I try not to on the web, and I live my life allowing for others to have their own differing opinions as long as they don't present a risk to others, or myself but I've perhaps needlessly taken a bit of offense to your closing comments:
"Fresh trauma is the name of the game, and deflecting the recoil away from its makers is the aim, as this is what drives the wheel that generates the gains.
Step aside, astroturf in progress"
I imagine from what you’ve written that you’re close in age to me and therefore have experienced many of the disturbing events that have taken place since and including Kennedy’s assassination. My historical frame of reference spans some five decades. I wonder, did you read my earlier post? I lost three loved ones in 911. Did you that day lose more than your faith in your protectors, your government? If that’s all you lost that day, well, I long ago lost that, but I understand your disappointment, frustration and feeling powerless. If you suffered a greater, more personal loss as I did, you have my condolences.
You seem to misunderstand the meaning of the word “trauma” in its psychological sense, and have misused it repeatedly, but it is certainly clear that the events of 911 have left you traumatized.
Trauma: A severely disturbing experience that leads to lasting psychological or emotional impairment.
A traumatized person is in shock and unable to act or react rationally, so in saying this you are incorrect: ”People in pain and trauma react.” People in pain not suffering from trauma can and do react.
The memories of that fateful day some 9 years ago may be fresh and indeed many were and remain traumatized to varying degrees, but while it’s clear you feel outraged and pained by that day’s events and feel certain our government is responsible, I haven’t yet read of you being arrested for taking a hammer to the White House’s bricks, so why is that, you being as convinced as you are of who the culprits were? Are you awaiting some personal revelation from Donald Rumsfeld?
Perhaps you have not acted because you know, as millions of others do, that it would be an effort in futility, ending in at least your imprisonment but more probably your certain death? I would advise you not to engage in such a foolish illegal activity. But have you even written a letter to any of your elected representatives protesting the official findings of the 911 Commission? No? Why’s that?
Let’s remember for a moment what had transpired in the 9 years after Kennedy’s and Oswald’s assassinations: first there was the Warren Commission’s unbelievable ‘single bullet’ theory, promoted by recently turned Dem Arlen Spector, pinning Oswald for the President’s murder; Viet Nam; Watts; MLK’s and Bobbie’s murders; Charlie Manson; Viet Nam; Nixon; Viet Nam.
What more could be necessary to raise the public to outrage? Child sacrifice on the White House Lawn?
The 60s sure seemed enough for me to be roused from my slumber, but I didn’t see any great change, did you? (Well, there was the Civil Rights Act and Earth Day, too.) All of those events were as fresh in our minds then as 911 is today. Hmm, no revolution. Why was that? Don’t think the 58 thousand American deaths were enough? How many more would it take to die for the profit of the war mongers to rouse the people into action for change?
Lots of people, perhaps numbering in the millions, believe the government was at least knowledgeable beforehand of the events that took place on 911 if in fact they did not orchestrate the day’s events. Whether or not a building fell or was demolished is of little consequence when we weigh what has transpired since 911. It doesn’t matter. You still believe, as did Rachel Corey that you matter to the D-9 operator; that you can appeal to their sense of morality and change their direction or stop them in their tracks. Sadly, you still don’t get it. You still don’t realize that you are a slave, as we all are, allowed to live only because your master wills it.
