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Today marks the 5th Anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
This was the day we lost nearly 3000 human souls…Americans mostly. We lost them to the anger of people who disdain our way of life. Who hate the things America stands for or allows to happen.

As David Cross said:

I saw this ad for electric scissors [referring to a bit earlier] during an episode of the Simple Life. Which is a show that glorifies these two rich, giggling (snip), who have no respect for anyone, and get away with anything. I, right then, vowed that I would retain this image everytime I hear George Bush say ‘the terrorists hate our freedom.’ You know what? I hate our freedom. Little ol’ me, an American, I hate it. That’s all we’ve done with it? We’re (snip) assholes, man. We…are…awful.

What a great point. We’re the greatest nation on the face of the earth, and the best we can offer is Paris Hilton, who inundates the airwaves and our watercooler discussions? No wonder they hate us…they think we’re all like that.

And what do we do to change their opinions? We lock them up for years at a time…we bomb them further into the stone age. We ridicule them and imply that our way, the AMERICAN way, is so much better. We force ‘freedom’ on them.

Today also marks the 5th anniversary of:
*the day we lost our civil rights
*the day we lost our privacy
*the day we lost the respect of the rest of the world
*the day we lost our freedom and decided to impose it on the rest of the world, like it or not

Everyone is so concerned with proving that the terrorists didn’t win that they didn’t notice that they HAVE won. We’re so busy fighting amongst ourselves about which memorial to build that we didn’t notice that we can’t make a phone call or send an email without it being logged, tracked, categorized and tagged, all in the name of our safety.

It’s a damn shame that all of those people died, and all we can offer them in memory is rhetoric and more death.