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Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 01:04 PM by bluestateguy
Today is a day for remembering and memorializing those who were lost, as it is important to do that. For those who were very directly impacted by 9/11, I would not presume to tell them to "get over it". So if you are one of those people, then this message is not for you But we have many people in this country who claim to have been directly impacted upon 9/11 simply because their feelings were hurt. They don't have a relative in the military, did not have a relative who was lost on 9/11 and they were not in New York or DC on that day; they were sitting in the comforts of their home thousands of miles away in some Red state.
As upset as I was on that day 10 years ago, and even as I supported retaliation and justice for the terrorists who did this nation harm, I could also sense troubling signs within just a few days that 9/11 would be politicized to a significant degree. Political dissenters were shouted down and told to shut up. I used to wear a flag lapel pin in the months after 9/11, but I took it off once I saw that it was being used as a political flogging device. George W. Bush was already invoking 9/11 at Republican fundraisers in 2002, and Karl Rove was already setting up a strategy to milk 9/11 for all that it was worth in the 2002 and 2004 elections. Fortunately, that well ran dry by 2006.
Terrorism is not something that we should tolerate in the United States, but every year more U.S. citizens are killed due to not having access to health care, or just because of routine street crime, as the US remains one of the most crime ridden industrialized nations on Earth, than on 9/11.
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