Before These Crowded Streets

[Disturbed]

"Later that afternoon, I jumped into a cab and headed down to the financial district to do something I hadn't done yet. A few minutes later, I found myself at the corner of Church St. and Vesey St. standing between two graveyards. The one on the left was small fenced in by a black wrought-iron fence, and very old. It reminded me of the Revolutionary War-era Granary on Tremont St. in Boston, where Paul Revere and Samuel Adams rest. The graveyard on the right was much newer, massive, fenced in by a towering gray barrier. There were no old headstones, no grass for the wind to ruffle.


This was Ground Zero, and it still smelled like burning.

It occurred to me, as I tried to take in the enormity, that I could be standing on a spot where someone died instantly after jumping from a window that used to stand high above in those lost towers. The street was crowded with ghosts, and I couldn't stay long for the chill they left in their wake. As I dove into another cab, I remembered that George W. Bush wants to give his acceptance speech at the GOP nomination from that sacred, scarred place. You have to stand at Ground Zero to appreciate the staggering arrogance of anyone who would consider, for a nanosecond, using the place for political theater."

William Rivers Pitt

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/032304A.shtml

A Violation of Ground Zero

* I won't watch this disgraceful act by a miserable failure of a Pres. but it will anger me immensely that this shallow, coward GW Bush will dare do this!!!!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Are you going to the CUNY forum this Thursday?

Shock and Awe is what its called and it is about 911 and the political uses of it. It's free, but you have to register.

[Disturbed]

2. Thanks for the heads up.

In San Fran., right?