September 12, 2006- Bringing Us Together

   Well, the fifth anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001 has passed, and no matter where you have been in this last week, there has been no avoiding that anniversary as it was commemorated everywhere that you looked. Of course New York City and Washington D.C. had all sorts of memorials and services and tributes and the like, but I would seriously doubt if there was a single community anywhere in America that did not have some sort of tribute going yesterday, even if it was just a bunch of farmhouses flying the American flag in unison, there was something going on. Moving ceremonies and all sorts of TV shows and magazine and newspaper stories went on everywhere, as dignitaries large and small paid thier respects to the victims of that horrible day by making speeches of some sort. Even President Bush got in on the act and went on live TV Monday night basically rehashing the same old tired propaganda and lies that have been used to justify everything that has happened in America since that day, covering no new ground at all, but no one was really about to noitce, becuase everyone was so fucking full of the images and accounts and stories of that day that were coming from every which way that by the time Bush got on TV, people were just too tired and numbed out from it all to give a fuck about anything that he said. The events of that day were analyzed from every possible angle and every conceivable storyline was covered, and yet, there was no shortage of words said to describe that day. That hot dog CNN reporter Anderson Cooper was live in Afghanistan covering that angle of the story, and he said that old tired cliche about how everyone's lives changed that day, and he even recognized that it was a cliche, but said that at times, cliches are actually the truth,so accolades and tributes were flying across America even more than the migartory birds are at this time of year, but there was one that has definetly been repeated as often as any of the others and is as tired and worn out as any of them, but has some real relevance when you look at it closely. Here in Chicago, there was the obligatory ceremony that was attended by all the politicians that had no choice except to go to those things yesterday, like Chicago's Mayor, Richard M. Daley. Now Mayor Daley is not one for words at all, the man is barely literate and coherent at times, so when he has to speak on a subject as mammoth as yesterday's was, cliches are all that you can expect from the man, he just is not elequent enough to speak originally in a situation like that, or much of any  other situation really. So Mayor Daley was giving his hackneyed, cliche ridden speech at the ceremony yesterday, and  one of the cliches that he spouted was that the events of September 11th, 2001, terrible as they were, "brought the Ametrican people together" and that is how it was gotten through and so on and so forth. That statement has been echoed for five years now, as often as the shit about the day that everyone's lives changed, when there were  probably a couple million of people at least whose lives did not really change one iota that day, and that shit about bringing Americans together is every bit as suspect as the other cliches are. When you look closely, the effects that day had on America are not quite what Mayor Daley was saying yesterday.

   What Mayor Daley was talking about was the shit that happened during the tragedy and in its aftermath, things like the firefighters that ran into the burning towers to try and help and never came out, and how so many people pitched in to help once the events of the day were over, and to be sure, there was a  lot of that. Americans were overwhelmed by the magnitude of what went doen that day and wanted to try and do something, anything, to help. They needed that every bit as much to get through these events themselves as to offer their services to those in need, so there was no shortage of those willing to help. Any charity shit that was set up to help the disaster fund as it became known was overwhelmed by people literally throwing money at them, so much so that they had to ask people to stop donating money because to much was coming in too fast, but that did little to slow the flow down. Every community across America sent what they could over to New York to help clean up the colossal mess, firefighters and police from all across America poured into town to try and help, so many of them that they had to be asked to show some restraint after a while because there were more than enough of them. All across America, people did whatever they were asked to do to help, whatever they could, you even had little kids having lemonade stands and donating their profits to the fund, Americans did indeed bond together as one to try and help. They did so because to many of them, even though these events took place hundreds and even thousands of mils away, they happened right in their own backyard, as Americans all seemed to feel that they had been attacked and wronged that day. Sometimes that shit got out of hand, like in a Southern Suburb here in Chicagoland, there was a patriotic parade that turned into an anti-Muslim rally and got ugly and people got arrested and all that shit. Americans were emotional about the events of that day, and why not, nothing like that had ever happened in any American's life before,and no one seemed to know quite how ro react. The only way that many knew how to try that was to stick together and do their best to help their fellow Americans that needed help out of this, no matter who that may be and they tried as best they knew how.  Those are the images that Daley and everyone else that uses that cliche are trying to invoke, the images of Americans mourning together and uniting as one to get over the shock and figure out what to do next. However, there is one major flaw in that scenario, and that the shock wearing off and everyone trying to figure out just what to do next, and once that started to happen, Americans were not quite to united as one anymore.  You had the Administration saying that they just had to go and invade Iraq because of all of this and then not really waiting for any other option to become available and just going right on in and doing it.  Once again, that seemed to unite the American people as one as they saw the tanks sweeping into Iraq seemingly unopposed and it all looking like a cakewalk for America, As we all know, there was no cakewalk at all, and the fact that there has not been has definitely thrown more than a few freactures into that united front that Daley and the other windbags refer to when they make speeches and things have gone a whole other way.

   The fact is that Americans could not possibly be more divided than they are now over so many things. The biggest oine is that little war   in Iraq that Bush and Co. said that they just had to start as part of this, that war has divided America in ways not seen since Vietnam. You have people like Cindy Sheehan squatting outside of Bush's ranch making inpassioned speeches against the war to any TV cameras present, and you also have Bush's supporters sticking up for what he has done. It seems that for every person that thinks that this whole war scene is a mistake and is costing America too much in terms of money and lives, there is another person that truly feels that America has to wage this war in order to keep the events of five years ago from happening again and again. the longer that things go on the way that they are in Iraq, the more heated and emotional an issue it becomes, and now it is probably every bit as much an emotional as the events of five years ago, but instead of uniting Americans as one, it is bitterly dividing them into camps and factions. the same people that gave money so freely five years ago, or who volunteered to help in some way are now at one another's throats over the fallout that came out of five years ago. There are as bitter of divisions on this subject amongst those that were called heroes five years ago. firefighters and the like, as ther eare among average citizens these days, this debate crosses all economic classes and  levels of society, from rich to poor, to black to white, Americans are becoming more divided over the events that have come out of five years ago every day. The media seems to have taken sides, with some outlets being called Pro-Administration, while others are called anti-Administration, and they fan these flames in pursuit of ratings and the money that rating bring them. Americans are increasingly turning against one another now instead of towards one another and division and schism seem to be the orders of the day. Everyone has an opinion about where America should go from here, leave Iraq, stay the course, etc., and those opinions are making Americans hate one another every bit as much as the events of five years ago made them love one another. That is where we are at five years later, and that trend shows no signs at all of ever slowing down anytime soon. Americans are fighting one another so much over these issues that they are not fighting their perceived enemy of five years ago any longer and no one seems overly concerned about that. For if America  is truly at war, and there is no doubt that they are, them keeping unity among the people lwould seem to be of paramount importance, as you will need those people to eventually win the war like Bush says we will. In World War II, there was no such division among the American people, they were united and stayed that way, and many feel that was why America won World War II, because of the unity that was put into the American war effort by all its citizens. If this current war is indeed the largest that Amereica has seen since World War II, then why would Washington let the American people get so deeply divided over the issue? After all, conventional wisdom says that the real reason that America lost to the Communists in Vietnam was because the American people back at home turned against the war in such great numbers and created such deep schisms in society that Washington was no longer effectively fight it. So it would seem as if letting that happen again today would be suicide, but happen it has, and the reality of it  is that it is no accident, no accident at all.

   When you look at how these divisions have occured these last five years, you see one entitiy always square in the middle of it all, and that's the White House. So many of these divisions have occured simply because of the way that this Administration has handled and said things.  they have made no effort to be politically correct, just look at these terms that they throw around like "Islamofacism" and comparing their foe to Hitler and them, so they have not even tried to disguise their real agenda in Iraq, and that was to destabilize the country so that they could take over and oversee a Civil War where thoudands of Iraqis are killed, so that America can  move their own people in and re-populate Iraq as an American colony. They have so brazen with this so that they antagonized their opponents here at home no end and inflame passions among their supporters equally. they want the American people squawking at and fighting with one another so that  no one is watching closely enough to hold them accountable for anything that they might do. This approach has worked admirably, there have been things like prisoner abuse by Americans and massacres of civilians committed by them, and no one has said all that much about that. Sure, they use these things as examples to make their points, but since they are so busy making those points to one another, no one is telling Washington anything, so they are free to do as they please. The way that they profit off of this is to make it an eteranl war, and to have an eternal battlefield war, you need to have an eternal war between your own people so that they don't stop you. Vietnam was not supposed to be a long war, was not supposed to last anywhere near as long as it did, so when schisms started in America, that closed that scene down. This war is made to last eternally, with no one ever really winning it, just people profiting off of it, so having the American people fight over it just means that it can keep going on and on and on. Manipulating the  American people and setting them against one another like this was always part of the plan from the beginning, and like everything else that America is doing in the war, what seems like a failure or a negative  is actually success at the highest levels. That is what September 11th, 2001 has been best for as far as The Establishment is concerned, setting people apart, but only after bringing them together first. Universal approval was necessary for them to get their little party started, but deep schisms are necessary for them to keep it going. That is the part that Daley and all the other speechmakers forget when the use that cliche about people being brought together by the events of that day, but don't think that even a seemingly uneducated and inarticualte man like Daley doesn't know that is the truth, but they also know that they cannot say it, because as part of The Establishment, they know that they benefited from that day in some way, Daley got all sorts of Federal money for Chicago to get this new high-tech Pig system going, and transportation money and all kinds of other money as well. he knows that to keep that money flowing into Chicago, that the American people need to be set against one another, that is the oldest political trick going, divide and conquer,and the people really behind bringing us the events of five years ago, the Administration in Washington, have done that very well, both in Iraq and here in America as well. September 11th, 2001 was not designed to bring anyone together except Mr. Businessman and money, as far as the ordinary Americans are concerned, that day was meant to tear them apart and set them against one another, but there were no commemoration ceremonies yesterday that said that.

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