It isn't the same infuriating I feel for the swift justice for our enemies, or for the new resolve that this administration has promised, that we will soon-hopefully, see come to fruition. The thing that infuriates me, especially after a few media bound events, is our broken promise. We can't even make it a week from when the day of remembrance to have already forgotten the thing that happened 8 years ago, that isn't even over. There is still things going on because of that! Your freedom is still hanging in the balance, and you, the media and America still don't care!
We are in the month in which the incident occurred. I'm not saying we can't go on with our lives, and that we must grab tissues and cry in the corner in grievance, but we should give a fuck. We made a promise to never forget, one we've not even been able to hold together for 8 years. What does remember mean? That you buy a bumper sticker, and an American flag, and make a donation to a charity. That all makes my conscience clear (they really need a font for sarcasm). Those thousands of innocent people can now rest their souls, and we can go back to our Jerry Springer, and MTV. Then every time the 11th of September comes around, we can stop and think about it for the minute of silence and then continue doing the line of blow off a hookers ass and get on with it.
The worst part about all of this is that Kanye West is a bigger story than the thousands who lost their lives on that fateful day. Kanye West does something ridiculous, that is entirely socially unacceptable, at one of the pettiest things are society frets about and he's bigger than Osama Bin Laden, the man responsible for killing thousands of AMERICANS! We're out for Kanye's blood though, because we REMEMBER TAYLOR SWIFT! Down with Kanye with SWIFT JUSTICE!- I don't think that's what it's supposed to mean. Well a week from now, hopefully you will no longer remember the ridiculous, petty worries of an award show fiasco. You'll go about your life, and not care anymore, because that is apparently the way of life.
I heard someone tell me about Osama Bin Laden's new tape. Yes, Osama Bin Laden released a tape. America's #2 most wanted, right behind Kanye West. It was released on September 13th, the same day that Kanye made himself out to the Jackass he'd already proved to be a couple years ago during the Katrina situation. What a joke, and we praise him. I tried to research what the tape said, so I came back online, and searched on CNN for about 20 minutes until I finally found about a page long story on the situation. The tape was of Osama's voice, played over a picture of him, and a picture of New York sky line with the Twin Towers still up. It said things we already knew, but were a REMINDER of why they attacked us. It pointed out why Obama will fail in pulling out troops in Iraq, and tried to spread it's normal propaganda. Apparently Mr. Osama, Obama, the remembrance from the US isn't very strong. Perhaps you should hire Kanye to interrupt your speech to America Mr. Bin Laden and tell us all that Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City Bombing was better.
Maybe I don't think of the word Remember the same as you. As in this case I think I remember those who perished by trying to vanquish those responsible for their deaths as well as allow future generations to never have to experience the atrocities that our fore fathers had fought so hard to protect. Freedom certainly isn't free, or bought easily. Even if we differ in that, which is understandable, I don't think we as Americans differ in our thought of 'promise.' We've traditionally brought great vengeance upon those who have threatened our freedom. Those who have made us remember that they had the upper hand, that they won a fight. We have brought justice without mercy upon them in the past of our country, in it's birth to up until now. And yet, we are faltering, for the first time in America's history. I don't have to remind you of any of the things that we have so forthrightly defended in the pursuit of the freedoms and liberties in which all of us enjoy. Taxation without representation. Concord. The Alamo. The USS Maine. Pearl Harbor. They all have sayings, all have brought motivation to the justice of those responsible. They ring true in our history! In our statehood, all of these things had to have the repercussions of a win on our terms to allow us to live the way we do. Free?
I believe that we are a people that do not forget. That we are the strongest nation in the world, and we should take some kind of pride in that. We shouldn't apologize for everything we do, as we are not perfect. We make mistakes, and we also fix problems. The world might hate us, but they envy us too. We need to renew our resolve and finish this war, so that my son doesn't have to fight in it too. So that we can concern ourselves with Kanye West, and the Big Brother winner. But we should get our priorities straight, and concern ourselves with the bigger, more important task at hand, preserving our freedom.
Re-Remembering yet?
I thought terrorism was a word they made up after 9/11 happened. -We're still ignorant though, aren't we?
Like I told you, I thought it was so sad that I heard about Kanye's incident via facebook before Bin Laden's tape was talked about on the news here. That tape was much bigger news. How can you not watch that tape and shudder at the thought that he's still out there? Creepers . . .
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