9/11...

[seawasp]

... was called a declaration of war. And, in a way, it was, but not the war that the politicians wanted us to think.

It was a war against trust. A war against acceptance of risk in the real world. A war against our freedom, not by Muslim terrorists, but by our own people.

We are currently losing this war, as we were from the moment the PATRIOT act was passed. We continue to lose it as long as it, and similar laws, remain in force, as long as we are searched by increasingly intrusive means for weapons just to be able to fly for an hour, as long as our politicians and police justify any level of violence, intrusion, surveillance, and confiscation in the name of "terrorism".

I mourn for the people who died that day. And I mourn for the wound that it dealt our country, a wound that various groups are trying their best not to heal, but to cut open wider.

Comments

[kengr]

Well, I still recall one of my thoughts at the time (shortly after the planes hit the second tower, I was watching live coverage).

Mind you, I was wrong about it, but I did wonder if this was a "Reichstag Fire" situation.

Alas, while it wasn't a plot, they *used* it the same way Germany's government used the Reichstag fire...

[melchar.livejournal.com]

And they continue to use it - and beat the 'fear - fire - foes' terrorism drum every year to make sure the herd stays afraid enough to be manipulated. And now the war drum beat picks up again.