"Let’s Cancel 9/11"

[in_cog_ni_to]

Let’s bag it.

I’m talking about the tenth anniversary ceremonies for 9/11, and everything that goes with them: the solemn reading of the names of the dead, the tolling of bells, the honoring of first responders, the gathering of presidents, the dedication of the new memorial, the moments of silence. The works.

Let’s just can it all. Shut down Ground Zero. Lock out the tourists. Close “Reflecting Absence,” the memorial built in the “footprints” of the former towers with its grove of trees, giant pools, and multiple waterfalls before it can be unveiled this Sunday. Discontinue work on the underground National September 11 Museum due to open in 2012. Tear down the Freedom Tower (redubbed 1 World Trade Center after our “freedom” wars went awry), 102 stories of “the most expensive skyscraper ever constructed in the United States.” (Estimated price tag: $3.3 billion.) Eliminate that still-being-constructed, hubris-filled 1,776 feet of building, planned in the heyday of George W. Bush and soaring into the Manhattan sky like a nyaah-nyaah invitation to future terrorists. Dismantle the other three office towers being built there as part of an $11 billion government-sponsored construction program. Let’s get rid of it all. If we had wanted a memorial to 9/11, it would have been more appropriate to leave one of the giant shards of broken tower there untouched.

Ask yourself this: ten years into the post-9/11 era, haven't we had enough of ourselves? If we have any respect for history or humanity or decency left, isn’t it time to rip the Band-Aid off the wound, to remove 9/11 from our collective consciousness? No more invocations of those attacks to explain otherwise inexplicable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and our oh-so-global war on terror. No more invocations of 9/11 to keep the Pentagon and the national security state flooded with money. No more invocations of 9/11 to justify every encroachment on liberty, every new step in the surveillance of Americans, every advance in pat-downs and wand-downs and strip downs that keeps fear high and the homeland security state afloat.<snip>

This is a very long piece...much more at link:

http://www.nationofchange.org/lets-cancel-911-1315495318

[Ohio Joe]

1. Yeah, fuck everyone that knew someone who died that day

Can't they just get over it :sarcasm:

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Let them mourn in private.

That's how I mourn the deaths of family members. I think the spectacle is what this writer is unhappy about.

[Ohio Joe]

6. Then lets take down all memorials

Why pick out just this? Today? A real douchebag move IMO.

[Exilednight]

12. I don't believe the author is talking about getting rid of

the physical memorials, but the ceremonies that goes with them.

As someone in another thread posted, this is manufactured mourning made for TV. Soaps would still be on the air if they were this well produced.

[Ohio Joe]

14. Did you read it? It's bolded in the OP.

"Let’s get rid of it all. If we had wanted a memorial to 9/11, it would have been more appropriate to leave one of the giant shards of broken tower there untouched."

Sure as shit sounds like he wants it gone to me.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. And there is is: "it would have been more appropriate to leave one of the giant shards of broken

there untouched."

He didn't say ... have no memorial.

[Ohio Joe]

20. Reading comprehension problems?

or just cherry picking? The part you left out tells it - ""Let’s get rid of it all. If we had wanted a memorial to 9/11," - He wants there to be no memorial.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. We do not have to watch 3 days of Pearl Harbor programs

every year, do we? This 911 propaganda is embarrassing, to say the least. If I had a family member killed on 911, this endless coverage would piss me off. I would hate having to watch this stuff every year when all I want to do is MOVE ON. I would grieve in PRIVATE...but that's just me. Apparently, you would relish reliving the death of your loved one every year...IN A PUBLIC DISPLAY... which is also paying out mega dollars to the corporate owned MSM for the endless coverage. They profit from the deaths EVERY YEAR. That makes you happy? Suit yourself. I find it obscene and offensive. JMCPO.

[Ohio Joe]

21. Do not put words into my mouth

I see no problem with having a memorial, I think it fitting to remember those I knew that died in the towers. It is a shitty thing to try and turn that into my having support for the media circus.

[lib2DaBone]

2. kick Let's cancel all the ridiculous call in shows...

... EVERY radio station in town is having people call in and say where they were on 911. Lame.

Then.. they play Lee Greenwood every 5 minutes and "God Bless America".

However.. the Offishul (sic) 911 report still remains classified. Why?

So.. before we make a new holiday to honor stupidity.. shouldn't we find out who was really responsible for 911?

Just a thought...

[DataException]

7. uh.... yeah...

:tinfoilhat:

[Politicalboi]

17. Yes we should find who was responsible

Then we can forget it. When the Bush cabal is in jail for their crimes of 9/11 I will be more than happy to forget it.

[EFerrari]

3. K&R

[virgogal]

4. Memorials are comforting to some,to others they're not. The

Hiroshima Memorial is very moving,as is The Arizona in Pearl Harbor. and this one will be too.

People who don't like them can just avoid them.

[MichiganVote]

8. The public memorials of 9/11 have become too much. Time to pull the plug on that.

[lib2DaBone]

9. True.... Memorials are comforting.....

But before we spend a week in angst, anger and depression every year on Sept. 11th.. shouldn't we know the truth behind 911?

Who did 911...why? We honor 1st Responders.. however.. we won't pay their health insurance if they contact lung cancer as a result.

911 First Responders are dying from ASBESTOS inhalation. But NYC will not pay their claims... does this deserve a holiday?

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Because scumbag idiot-in-chief covered up the EPA report. Let us not forget what they have done.

:grr: Dam POS.


The EPA 9/11 pollution controversy was the result of a report released by the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in August 2003 which claimed that the White House put pressure on the EPA to delete cautionary information about the air quality in New York City around Ground Zero following the September 11, 2001 attacks. According to the report: a September 18 EPA statement saying that the air was "safe"<1> was made without sufficient reliable data available; the White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced the EPA to make reassuring comments to the public; and on September 12 the EPA Administrator issued a memo saying that all statements to the media must be cleared by the National Security Council.

Numerous key differences between the draft versions and final versions of EPA statements were found. A recommendation that homes and businesses near ground zero be cleaned by professionals was replaced by a request that citizens follow orders from NYC officials. Another statement that showed concerns about "sensitive populations" was deleted altogether. Language used to describe excessive amounts of asbestos in the area was altered drastically to minimize attention to the dangers it posed.<2>

The news of the report created a short-lived backlash against the administration. Especially angered were New Yorkers who lived near the site of the terrorist attacks. Even a year after 9/11 some 7,000 rescue workers were believed to be suffering from Ground Zero illness: respiratory ailments caused by the dust. Many cleaning efforts by government and private agencies on homes and businesses were accused of being inadequate.<3>

Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joseph I. Lieberman sent a letter to President George W. Bush concerning his administration's alleged intervention in internal EPA affairs.<4><snip>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency_September_11_attacks_pollution_controversy

[virgogal]

15. Of course the inequities are horrific,but the Memorial may give

some solace to those who feel they need it.I have no problem with that.

[tammywammy]

11. Oklahoma City has a very nice memorial. n/t

[virgogal]

13. Yes,I hear it is quite nice. Good friend of my daughter is from OKC.

[Chorophyll]

19. If you can time-travel and cancel it entirely, yes.

But you can't "cancel" it for the people who died or for anyone who was directly affected. Ceremonies and memorials are tremendously comforting to some people. If you don't like all the pomp and circumstance, you don't have to look.

As for the expense of new buildings and the like, your outrage would be better directed at the trillions of dollars we've spent in Afghanistan and Iraq. A decade of war is the real problem.