While I may have something else to share with you on this later tonight, for now, just a few very thoughts on today’s somber 10th anniversary of 9/11. While my thoughts this afternoon are, naturally, with the families of those who lost their lives on 9/11, they are as much today with those exponentially many more families who have lost loved ones, needlessly, in this nation’s childish and/or cynical and/or opportunistic and/or cowardly responses to that horrific day.
I am also thinking of those countless many — a great number of whom also lost family members on both 9/11 and during our response — who carried on with exceptional courageousness nonetheless during the course of our lost decade since. To those who were not cowed by the events of 9/11 — and by our far more damaging responses to it — I thank you today, again, for your selfless persistence in exercising your freedoms and liberties to do what is right, as opposed to what, no doubt, would have been far easier and far less costly on so many levels.
Beyond that (and beyond the additional thoughts, as noted, I may have later tonight), I suspect you’ve seen plenty in relation to the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 by now. So allow me to offer just a few short links to a few short and sweet articles or clips, all very much worth reading or watching, from over the last several weeks, as they offer a great deal about what now seems to matter most — even as much of the nation’s media choose instead to travel the very same road today as they did back then, and ever since…
• STEVE CLEMONS: “9/11 and One Measure of bin Laden’s Success”
• GLENN GREENWALD: “The Decade’s Biggest Scam”
• MSNBC: In regard to both items above, this clip exploring 9/11 as “good business…huge business,” as from MSNBC’s new documentary Day of Destruction, Decade of War …
• SIBEL EDMONDS: “Answers in Absolute for ‘Why 9/11?'”
• MSNBC: And in additional support of Edmonds’ thoughts above, another clip from Day of Destruction, Decade of War, this one on the cynical, systematic, and criminal (if still shamelessly uncharged) use of tactics once known, and prosecuted by our country, as “torture”…
Never forget.
Refreshing that MSNBC is actually taking a look at 9/11 from the perspective of war profiteers.
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I lose hope & get scared-you know that! But today, I’m filled with joy & a sense of purpose. Onward! Let’s get our Constitution reinstated and why not the rule of law while we’re at it. It’s up to us’ems. There ain’t nobody else… Blessings, all.
Ernie @1,
“Refreshing that MSNBC is actually taking a look at 9/11 from the perspective of war profiteers”
Yes indeed.
They really have a difficult time believing that mommy or daddy, like the king, could ever do any wrong.
I think the new “Architects & Engineers for 9/11 truth” movie says all that needs to be said about 9/11 at this point.
That false flag attack was the keystone for everything that has transpired since then, patriot act, trillions in debt, housing market, total destruction of the US economy all started with what REALLY happened on 9/11.
Until it becomes factual history what really happened then nothing is ever going to change.