The most obvious thing that has come out of all of this in the past year is the war. The War On Terrorism, to be exact. This was the first instant war in American history. A war that was never formally declared, but just came out of the rubble of the attacked buildings. One year later, what has this war done for us all? Well, it sure has helped make Mr. Businessman rich. The pentagon has be3n working overtime doling out the fat contracts to the various businesses that are going to make the various supplies necessary to fight this war, and they have done themselves proud. Millions upon millions of dollars have been given out to businesses of all types, to do things like repair the damage at the Pentagon, to make bombs and planes and uniforms and meals and housing and shit for the war effort. So a lot of dues have gotten way the fuck rich from this war in the last year. But what has the actual fighting in the war done? The answer to that one is not too much. Yes, there were the well documented bombing raids on the various targets and the routing of the Taliban from Afghanistan and all of that. We had a bunch of dudes taken prisoner and shipped off to that Camp X-Ray in Cuba , where they have been paraded before the cameras in chains and with all sorts of sensory deprivation shit on them and so forth. But when you lok at all of this, there have not been any real advantages gotten from talking these prisoners, no real information gleaned that has made a big difference. You have had these rumors hit the air about all these alleged plans that the terrorists had that have come out of the mouths of these prisoner dudes., but none of that shit that they spoke of has even remotely come to pass. We hear about how the government has gotten some kind of information out of a high ranking Taliban prisoner, but it always seems to look like these dudes are bullshitting the Americans just to tell them something that they'll freak out over. None of their information has turned out to be worth very much. The biggest prisoner that we have heard of was that John Walker Lindh, and he was only noteworthy because he is an American that defected to the Taliban. It turned out that he didn't know shit either, nothing more than the average Taliban soldier, he was just some dumbfuck that the Taliban took money from and gave him insincere thanks. His show court appearances were about the only thing that has come out of Camp X Ray in these many months of its existence. And in terms of prisoners, America has not captured anyone that is really a high ranking Taliban fucker, including the main man of that horrid scene himself, Osama bin Laden. He has steadily eluded capture, mocking America all the way with his videos where he laughs about what he did. There have been numerous stories in the last year about how the American troops came very close to capturing him, only to have him elude them time after time. All of his top lieutenants have been able to do the same thing. None of his inner circle has been captures, only the lackeys that he used to put his scheme into action. One year later, and America has no idea of where bin Laden or his top henchmen are any more than they did one year ago today. They know what part of the world he's in, and that's about it, they can't even tell you which country for sure. So that has not exactly been a rousing success. Yes, the Taliban has been weakened, but it was a ragtag organization to begin with, juts a bunch of stooges that did what their leaders told them too. Those same leaders are still on the loose in the world, and they won't have any problem finding as many more stooges as they'll need to do whatever else they have on their evil minds. Capturing the stooges won;t solve much, the leaders are the ones that need to be captured, and they have not. There has been much death and destruction rained down on Afghanistan in the past year, more innocent Afghani civilians have been killed than the innocent American and other country's civilians in the attacks last year. Plus add to that all the fact that the government that America helped to install to replace the Taliban in Afghanistan is made up of as coalition of heroin dealers, some of the biggest ones in the world. These dudes are no friends of anyone except themselves and the amounts of heroin that they can sell. They have turned on one another, on America, on anyone and everyone that they feel gets in their way. These guys have no one's interests at heart except their own. So a lot of blood has been shed, and the results have been rather vague at best for America. It seems that nothing untoward has been stopped, no one important has been captured, that some of the world's biggest heroin dealers have been installed as the Afghani government, backed with American military power, but Mr. Businessman has gotten rich ion a lot of ways, and that seems to be about the only real concrete thing that has come out of the war so far.
Here at home, many things have changed too. Not as many as people say, but many nonetheless. Many of Mr. Businessman's endeavors have taken a huge hit from what happened, like the airline industry, the insurance industry, to name but two. These businesses have either gone to Uncle Sam for assistance, or just gone and jacked prices up on the consumer in order to make up the loss. Much of the increased security that we now see at American public gatherings is solely because the insurance companies said that the venues had to do so in order to get a break in premium prices from them. So much of this "increased security" that we see across America now is purely for show, and has no real force behind it. It is being done to appease Mr. Businessman and to make him stop squeezing the customer so much. The airlines have felt the brunt of the security shakeup, since it was their products that were used to perpetrate the attacks last year. They have been falling all over themselves to try and increase security as much as possible. Now, airports are equipped with metal detectors, x-ray machines, Federal guards, air marshals, you name it. An airport is more like a prison camp than a place of transportation now. Yet, there have been stories upon stories in the last year about how this new security was breached in one way or another. It seems to be failing as much as it is working according to the stores that have come out. The excuses that Mr. Businessman gave at first was that he had to implement these new security measures right away, and he was not ready for that, etc. Now it is a year later, and these security measures still seem to be inadequate. Mr. Businessman is still sputtering that he had to do this right away and was not ready for it, but if he is still not ready after one year, when will he be ready? He'll be ready when he finds a way to have security measures that satisfy everyone and not have it hurt his profit margin, for the real reason that he has not implemented these new measures in the past has been money and the fact the he did not want to spend it doing this. He is desperately trying to spend as little of it as he can to bring these new measures on line. Meanwhile, the passengers are still uneasy about everything. Another thing that has come out of the last year is the lionizing of the Pigs and firemen of America. They are now considered the heroes of America far more than the sports stars or the entertainment idols are now. The firemen are a part of public safety, without them, you can't have a very secure city, because when man lives in close quarters, mishaps with fire are assured, since fire is a tough thing to control, especially in close quarters like a city. So that makes sense. The Pigs, on the other hand, are being made into gods that they are anything but. They are being lauded as the only way that America can assure that the events of last year are never repeated .The cry is that America needs more Pigs, as many more as it can possibly get, for they are the only ones that can keep the populace safe. The terrorists are supposed to be no match for the Pigs. The President and the Congress are going full speed down this path, passing laws and acts that increase the powers of the Pigs evermore and giving them more and more leeway to do as they please in terms of performing their duties. The American public, for the most part, is lapping this up like thirsty dogs. They believe every word of this, that the Pigs are the saviors if them all, the protectors of them all, and all that malarkey. But no one ever seems to bring up the fact that the events of one year ago were brought on because the top two Pig organizations in America, the FBI And the CIA, were more interested in one-upping the other and would not cooperate with one another for any reason, a fact the the terrorists exploited masterfully to pull the events of last year off. They skillfully manipulated the political processes and parts of the Pig scene to make sure that one hand had no idea what the other one was doing. They played the Pig mentality of being the heroes and having all the power like skillful veterans, using that against the Pigs to have them running around in circles. They never directly challenged the powers of the Pigs in any way. Everything was subterfuge. With all of these calls for more Pigs and more sweeping powers for them, there has been no cry about stopping the political and ego shit that was used to perpetrate these acts. All that is spoken of is power and might and arrests and shit, things that were all firmly in place in the Pig scene one year ago, and were skillfully worked around by the terrorists. There has been no talk of reforming the Pig scene so that this cannot happen again. Only of strengthening the same mentalities that were exploited originally. All we have seen is the Pigs harassing Americans in the last year, they have not made any huge terror busts of any type. Anyone with malice in their heart still only has to use the mentality of the Pigs against them and manipulate their scene to do what they want to. Yet, with all the color codes and Homeland Security offices, the government is saying that America is safer than it was one year ago. They have reformed nothing in that scene, only strengthened the things about it that can be manipulated. Yet, they claim that we are all safer and more secure now than one year ago,. All the government has really done is to trample on the rights of individual citizens, the very rights that America has always prided itself on and said made America better than other places. The citizenry is no safer now than one year ago. They just have ever shrinking rights. These things are the legacy of the last year. A year with a lot of big talk and dramatic actions, but with very little in terms of results. A year that has taken America into a very uncertain future.A year that will never be forgotten by those that lived it. A year that nobody wants to repeat. This is where we are one year later, not at all very far from where we were one year ago, despite all the claims to the contrary.