Another
9/11 Anniversary Is
Just Around The Corner
By Vincent L. Guarisco
24 July, 2006
Countercurrents.org
"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only
the truth"
~~Voltaire
Once
again, that time-clock of terrifying consternation is poised to chime
yet again as we approach the 5th anniversary of the September 11, 2001
attacks. Be as it may, if Americans paid even a little attention all
these years, surely by now they have a clue as to what really happened.
Even a cursory search of
the Internet yields many surprising discrepancies that totally destroy
the official fairytale that has been literally shoved down our throats
for years. But this knowledge could only be achieved if we are wise
enough to disregard, or avoid, the twisted lies of the mainstream new
media. If so, then it comes as no surprise. We already know it was an
inside job.
Regardless of what we think
we know in terms of justice, the killers believe they have pulled off
the crime of the Century and will continue to politically exploit everyone
and everything to pedal their propaganda and agenda. As history has
shown, more times than not the guilty ones with cruel ideologies walk
free. In this case, they arrogantly had the brass balls to smirkingly
pin medals on themselves and give the accomplices promotions into high-level
positions. And all they had to do was follow without question the blueprint
of the neo-con New World Order. One thing for sure, thus far -- NO person
has been held accountable for his or her actions. It blows my mind that
so many people still consider these traitors as "heros." Wow!
Controlling one's gag reflex is all but impossible....
While I'm on the subject
of "up-chucking," do you remember when Bush hammered the iron
bell at his 2001 State of the Union Address and slyly labeled other
nations (especially those with oil) as an"Axis of Evil?" In
my view, that was the moment that many of us foolishly fell for this
administration's war trickery and became an "Axis of Assess"
in this deadly war-for-profit game. Do any of us still think the battle
isn't being fought here at home? Do we really think there isn't a special
deck of War Cards, just for us here at home?
I hope you aren't expecting
a mushy 9/11 birthday cake with five bloody candles on it. If so, the
best you'll get out of me is a silent prayer for those who died...followed
by extreme rage for those who killed them. And it's not just the madmen
in the administration who are to blame -- their corporate media toadies
are just as guilty for rushing American citizens off to their death.
Most writers will willingly follow tightly scripted journalistic guidelines
because their paychecks depend on it.
Many are well known for twisting
the truth within their nominal, polite linguistic perimeters, and are
fork-tongued experts when it comes to damage control with their fast-footed
word jargon on just about everything they say or write. Let's get real
-- almost without exception, the US media are pimped-out whores on a
mind-bending mission to keep us confused, scared and compliant. And,
after performing their daily lip-service, they pack up their kneepads
and quickly scurry off -- paychecks in hand -- already planning their
next behavior-modification head-job. It's a rare occurrence when a bit
of truth escapes their lips.
I say to hell with that crap.
Considering everything that has happened, we have serious problems.
We have decisions to make, and we'd better do it fast. I'm not simply
preaching to the choir, I've already seen enough of that circulating
around to know it doesn't accomplish much of anything. All of us must
get involved in saving our republic. We must be assertive and actively
protest in every way humanly possible. Time is running out.
Yes sir, it all went down
like clockwork when Poppy and sons, Cheney and the Project for a New
American Century boys fulfilled their wicked dream of yet another Pearl
Harbor in order to fraudulently rock our peace-loving world for their
wicked power-grab. Believe it or not, 9/11 is just a small cog in a
larger gear that runs their great corporate quest for complete imperialistic
control over the world's natural resources, including a cheap labor
force absent of any unions, oversight and environmental restrictions,
to exploit.
Oh my, the stacks of money
must be taller than Mount Everest by now. All made possible by attacking
our own country, blaming someone else for it, and then giving the bill
to the US tax-payers. Hundreds of billions wasted to finance two false
wars with more on the horizon. Hell, with a "privatized" Military
Industrial Complex, they are more than happy to accommodate a good
profitable conflict, or two, or three, or four...
What a waste All that hard
earned money falling into the Pentagon's bottomless pit. You know, that
deep, dark hole where funds disappear forever and the accounting books
never balance out. Well, that's not the only thing getting "swallowed
up." Just like our national treasury, the US Constitution and Democracy
-- the hourglass of freedom -- is almost empty too. Think about it.
The pendulum swings for the
5th consecutive year that each of us has had to endure ongoing hardships.
This nightmare must end. We cannot continue to be bombarded with stolen
elections, soaring cost-of-living hikes, massive poverty increases,
a diminishing middle class, hoards of homeless people living in the
streets, unbelievable amounts of hunger and starvation, astronomical
national debt, a trade debt getting as f**king high as the space station,
endless wars (with many more on the chalkboard), secret gulag torture
chambers strategically placed abroad, marathon amounts of displacement,
destruction and death for mass populations at home and
overseas, and of course -- our continuing wholesale servitude to our
Masters of the Universe whom without our hard labor, funds and sacrifice
they may never have been able to enjoy their royal life of rich pleasure.
It's a hard job, but someone's gotta move the battle lines from side
to side on the geopolitical map, inside the corporate board rooms. Are
we enjoying this yet? Sometimes I wonder...
And the beat goes on. Bush
has unraveled our country to a third-world standard, and the Albatross
of blame hangs around the people's neck for what he has done in our
name. The international community rightfully holds us accountable for
allowing these warmongers to steal our elections and launch the 9/11
attacks and then take control of the most powerful helm on the planet
to red-bait and attack innocent nations with impunity using the largest
arsenal known to mankind. We deserve our dishonored place in the world
arena for allowing this carnage to continue unchecked. Perhaps it's
better that most of us don't speak a second or third language, we may
not like what they have to say about us as a "civilized" nation.
It's sad, but life in this
"Land of Opportunity" is gonna get very rough indeed. Our
country is nearly bankrupt. Regardless of what the lying corporate economists
say, the USA is almost broke. In fact, it might behoove us to contact
older family members or friends for a few pointers on scratch survival.
Preferably those who lived through the 1930's. Because we're gonna need
it. Get real, this is exactly where we're headed, straight down poverty
lane into another great depression. As Federal programs diminish and
social funding comes to a screeching halt, there will be no handouts
or assistance to ease our suffering; our hunger. And for those of us
who think we are sitting on a safety cushion because we have lots of
toys and stuff to sell? Forget about it, we can't sell anything when
others have no money to purchase it.
And for those of us who own
our homes outright, well -- we still gotta pay those taxes, don't we?
Indeed. Just because Uncle Sam's pants pockets are hanging out to dry
doesn't mean we get a free ride. Remember that old 60's saying -- Ass
or grass, no one rides for free? Yeah, it kind of takes on new meaning
when we're the ones thumbing at the bottom of the food chain. For those
who refuse to wake up and see what is happening around them, we'll likely
have time to continue this discussion at a later date, perhaps on Pennsylvania
Avenue huddled around a trash can in front of the White House -- just
for shit and giggles. Hey we may even get a wave from George. Can you
feel the love? Wake up before it's too late.
As I keep repeating, back-to-back
stolen elections and the 9\11 attacks have been the catalyst of where
we are today. I shake my head in disgust when I hear Congress is debating
our right to desecrate the American Flag as a public display of protest
and dissent. In reality, the flag should remain at half mast, because
we are dying as a nation. But that's not how it works. It's now socially
and legally acceptable for policymakers and legislators to limit our
hard-earned ability to practice our rights while they hypocritically
and disgracefully trash Old Glory down into the mud with their hideous
words and actions.
Yeah sure, that's a real
morale booster. That's the quickest way to get us to snap to attention
and sing "America the Beautiful" while watching CNN coverage
of bombs bursting in air on civilian targets. In fact, let me crash
this keyboard shut, grab my car keys, and rush my children straight
down to the military recruiter's office to sign them up pronto Heck,
they may even return home alive. And we can feel good all over again
about adding their names to a very long list of untreated Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD) patients enjoying a quality life reliving the
memories of Uncle Sam's war for profit.
For me, this whole nightmare
is quite graphic and real. Some nights I wake up in a cold sweat, horrified
by the sounds of gargled screams drawing their last blood-filled breath
as razor sharp rubble tears flesh from limb to limb as I imagine what
happened inside the twin towers. Or sometimes I hear the rapid, desperate
pounding of footsteps, radio chatter and frantic chaos of brave fireman
running up the seemingly endless stairwells attempting to save innocent
lives; only to be greeted with screeching, disintegrating debris of
twisting molten metal falling back at them. Or, I think about what it
must have been like for those poor unfortunate souls who weren't lucky
enough to die instantly. The ones trapped for hours or even days whose
lonely cries for help slowly diminished into a whispered death-sentence
and then forced to rot beneath the tons of rubble. As an American, do
you ever have this experience? As an American -- why not?
For me, the 5th anniversary
of 9/11 is just like the four previous ones -- a shrill, never-ending
scream of what should never have been allowed to happen. We should have
stopped it, but we just stood there, transfixed by terror. Because of
our inaction, we will never be the same. The horror of 9/11 will forever
remain embedded in all of us as an evil lesson of what can happen --
what will surely happen -- to a nation's people when they lose control
of their leaders' actions.
Vincent L Guarisco is a freelance writer from Bullhead
City, Arizona, a contributing writer for many web sites, and a lifetime
founding member of the Alliance of Atomic Veterans. Replies welcomed
at: [email protected]
© 2006 Vincent L Guarisco