Primitive pays tribute on 9/11 in typical DUmmy fashion

[Freeper]

by pissing all over it.

MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun Sep-11-11 08:35 AM
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On 9/11
   
Don't get me wrong, I feel for those people who died that day.

But I refuse to participate in this two week long, hyper-inflated orgy of "grief and remembrance." I refuse to join any such tributes, in fact I'm doing my level best to ignore the whole spectacle.

Spectacle is exactly what this is. A spectacle designed to stir up jingonism, nationalism, and rekindle fear. It is an over the top patriotic spectacle for the masses, complete with a "solid threat assessment" that somebody, somewhere is planning on another attack today.

9/11 has been never primarily been about memorializing the victims, but rather about cover up and stirring up peoples' base emotions of hatred and hypernationalism. Yes, thousands died that day, but their death has been transformed from a tragedy to a red, white and blue orgy of nationalism that rivals Nazi memorials to the Beer Hall Putsch.

Let's look at other comparable events. In 1951, on the tenth anniversary of Pear Harbor, there was nowhere near the attention paid to memorializing that event as there is 911. The tenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings came and went with little fuss, perhaps because the perpetrator was a white Christian instead of a brown Muslim.

But 911 is being taken over the top. Starting two weeks ago there were the beginnings of the insanity. Swathed in nationalism, we have been treated to endless "tributes", remembrances, "new details", and let us not forget, increased security and a bonus terror threat. Today, it is going to be nothing but 911 for twenty four hours straight.

Personally, thought I feel for the families of the victims, I refuse to wallow in this corporate-state sponsored hypernationalistic feeding frenzy. I've found the only radio station, commercial and non-commercial, that isn't doing some 911 tribute and plays music that I can stand. I'm going to work outside this morning, and when I go in to watch football, I will time my watching to begin with the ending of the invariable 911 tribute.

I refuse to participate in this sort of hypernationalism. It isn't a genuine rememberance, and frankly it isn't healthy for our country.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1917269

They consider discussing terrorism as fear mongering, meanwhile they all claim that this summer being hot means that global warming is going to kill us all by next Tuesday. 

dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun Sep-11-11 08:49 AM
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4. The main thing which gets glossed over
   
is that it was the event which was use to convert the small group known as al qaeda into a significant worldwide terrorist network.

Yeah and if a woman wears a skirt and walks into the wrong neighborhood she deserves to be raped. 
Typical of these idiots, they praise the sick twisted evil people, and blame the victims.

[Ballygrl]

[JohnnyReb]

Pear Harbor?

Yeah, I know what he meant to say....but still.

[jtyangel]

Spectacle is actually watching the collective mind of the hive that is the DUmp and their responses and reaction to the somber national events we recognize on a day like today. You can also see it on anything remotely related to our founding fathers or Christianity ie Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, and Columubus Day. They are pathetic.

[franksolich]

They are pathetic.

"Contemptibly pathetic" is better.

<<has nothing but Contempt (capital "c") for animals trying to masquerade as humans.

[Carl]

I bet DUmmys will have a month long celebration of Katrina at some point.

Politics is everything to them.

[dandi]

If someone had flown an airplane into a gay bar, they'd be demanding a national holiday, mandatory teaching of it in grade schools, a monument where the rest room stood, and Brokeback Mountain on a loop for 24 hours every year on all tv stations.

Three thousand people in buildings representing the evil MIC? Naahhh. Get over it already.

[blitzkrieg_17]

Typical, indeed. Even hit all the talking points.  Asshole.

[Boudicca]

In 1951 this nation was enmeshed in the Korean War.  Probably had a few other priorities outside of commemorating a treacherous attack.

God help us all if it ever comes to all out world war again, when everyone, including the dregs of our country's "manhood" aka Islamic loving dumbshit libs are put on the front lines to defend our way of life.  We may as well capitulate in advance if those pussies are in charge of national defense, the way they are now (Obama, what a joke).

I wish to hell I'd been born 50 years before I was, before Americans had the unmitigated audacity to be "ashamed" of their country and willing to make excuses for her enemies.  Well, maybe there have always been cowardly unpatriotic ****s, but it seems to me that nowadays they're crawling out of the woodwork and GLORYING in demonstrating how hateful they can be towards the nation that gave them MORE than any nation heretofore has ever afforded its citizens.

Hell, pack them on trains for our borders and admit an equal number of Emma Lazarus' huddled masses yearning to be free.

9/11 was THE watershed moment of my children's generation, as was Pearl Harbor for my parents'.  What the HELL is so difficult to understand about the fact that the Islamic terrorists declared war that day every bit as decisively as the Japanese declared war on us in '41?