The other day I was watching some bullshit TV show about the "heroes of flight...whatever." Anyway, they were talking about how on Sept. 11th one of the groups of passengers on one of the planes rose up and tried to take the plane back from the terrorists. The plane then went on to, according to official reports, "crash." However, the reality is that they found fragments and debris from that plane over a five mile radius. I know this because those reports were all over the place in the first few days following 9/11, but now, mysteriously, they're as hard to find as negative reviews of "Citizen Kane" (all the first reviews of that movie were negative by the way...but thanks to revisionist history, all you can find is positive reviews these days).

Anyway, this TV show was thrown together with about 2 seconds of actual recording from the black box in which nothing could be heard but static, and this was to be taken of the proof that the passengers rose up rather than that the plane was shot down by the US air force.

I'm getting off track, what I really wanted to talk about is how every time something to do with 9/11 comes up, you're supposed to regard it with mournful reverence no matter how stupid or contrary to logic it is. Even some stupid TV re-enactment that only got financed to perpetuate a myth that is designed to cover up the fact that our air force actually did the appropriate thing in response to a kamikaze jumbo-jet (shoot it down). But the American public can't handle this so it must be hidden...how about just growing the fuck up America?

But no, if you say something like that you're an insensitive bastard now aren't you. This is just one more in an infinite list of "charged words and subjects" that people, in any social setting, can react to with utter indignance and make you out to be a monster. Of course right there at the top of the list is "always be respectful and mournful of 9/11."

Well, sorry jack, but I'm all cried out for 9/11!

(Shock of extreme faked rage and indignation coupled with licked lips at the thought of the feast the jackals can now have on my flesh...well just hold on there for a second you fucking cannibals)

The reason that I have no more strength to mourn 9/11 is that I'm exhausted from mourning the Tsunami tragedy in Indonesia. Ahhhh...do you remember that? I know it's pretty fucking difficult in the propaganda blitzkrieg of all this bullshit 9/11 remembrance we're supposed to perpetually maintain, but it actually happened. Oh, and remember that the death toll there was about 20 times that which was taken at 9/11. So therefore, if I were a vindictive person, I could say that any asshole spending energy mourning 9/11 at the expense of mourning the Indonesia Tsunami is a heartless brute with no awareness of true world suffering.

Self-righteous Moral majority responds: "Oh...but we weren't paying attention to the Tsunami because it wasn't an act of terrorism."

Ok, so people who die from acts of god aren't as worthy of our sympathy as people who die from acts of terrorists. Not too logical, but I'm not going to engage that argument right now. Instead I'll just go into my bag of suffering and pull out the Shining Path. Now I'm all cried out for 9/11 because I'm too busy morning the 60,000 indigenous Peruvians that were killed through acts of terrorism in the Andean mountains.

Self-righteous Moral majority responds: "Oh...but we don't pay attention to that because it wasn't happening to AMERICANS."

Well, actually they were AMERICANS, they were SOUTH AMERICANS...but, oh I get it, so human life that isn't NORTH American life is worth less?

Self-righteous Moral majority responds: "Oh...but we aren't trying to send that message!"

I RESPOND...."BULLSHIT, THAT'S EXACTLY THE MESSAGE YOU'RE SENDING!!!!!!!!!"

Every god damn time there is some bullshit scene of an American flag waving in slow motion with some bullshit Don Henly tribute song and the shadowy images of the two towers behind it, it's a slap in the face of every other tragedy that has occurred within ten years of that attack. I mean...why do we only chose to honor the victims of that tragedy? There have been hundreds of tragedies that have been equally if not much more horrific. I mean, I understand the whole concept of helping the people grieve so that they can recuperate their strength and get on with their lives....but everybody else who has suffered a tragedy since 9/11 has had to suck it up and get on with it with or without a billion dollars in charitable donations.

Shut the fuck up already! It's pathetic in a sense, and I tell you who else I'm too busy mourning for...I'm too busy mourning for every mother of every American soldier that was killed in our ill-advised attack on Iraq. I'm too busy mourning for every child and every woman and every poor Iraqi soldier that was unjustly killed or left homeless in that Haliburton profiteering fucking illegal war....the war that we embarked on because everybody in the whole fucking USA turned into a blood seeking asshole after the terrorist attacks.

But you know who else I mourn for? I mourn for the millions of people who are suffering from starvation or AIDS every god-damned day. I mourn for the people who don't have enough money to get higher education in rich 1st world countries and are stuck living in mud shacks in Hurricane country. I mourn for anybody who is made a slave in order to generate the funds necessary to finance the sick, indulgent lifestyle of jerk-offs who drive around in 80,000 dollar H2 Hummers and who have to buy aerosol mud in a spray-can to make it look like they've taken their excessive all terrain vehicles off-road.

What about all those other victims? Where are the fabricated TV memorials for them? Where are the billions of dollars in aid for their families? Where are the billions of dollars spent on bullshit monuments to keep us from FORGETTING about the agony they suffered?

No, there's enough people mourning for the dead from 9/11. But don't you dare call me insensitive or cold-hearted for not going along with them. I'm too busy trying to help out the still-suffering living. I'm too busy trying to bring about positive change so that this shit can be eliminated or prevented from happening. If you fuckers want to sit around with your tear-stained faces and circle-jerk each other until judgment day, then be my fucking guest, but don't you dare think that you've somehow obtained some Victim card that makes you untouchable for the rest of your lives. As long as your body draws breath, you have an obligation to help other people, and there's no amount of suffering that you can have endured that justifies your participation in the torture of another.

Just think that shit over for a minute.

And quit bitching about what's happened to you. No matter what you've been through, there's always somebody whose had it worse. No amount of Hollywood special-effects or propaganda can change that basic truth.

The End