From Lucianne.com comes an image the media didn’t want to play, and our government didn’t particularly want you to see. Or maybe not to see too much of.
Remember why this unknown man chose to leap to his death. Remember who is responsible. Remember the vicious “religious” ideology that motivates those who would like to see all Americans forced into a horrible death like this one.
Remember that the issue isn’t whether the Democrats get to take power and raise the minimum wage. The issue is that there are tens of thousand of religious maniacs out there actively trying to kill us all, and tens - or hundreds - of millions more who think those religious maniacs are right to do so. And remember that there are all too many regimes using these religious maniacs for their own purposes.
The issue is whether we are going to fight to defend ourselves, or submit.
Never forget that, either.
Submit to Stumbled Upon!
Yeah, isn’t it interesting that showing us video of what was happening that day is too disturbing, but showing video - which are provided by their killers - of our soldiers being killed is no problem.
The New Republic’s literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, penned an extended meditation on that image for 9/11’s first anniversary.
Wieseltier was terrified. I was enraged. I still am. And Wieseltier may still be terrified.
And both reactions may combine to explain why sightings of that picture have been few and far between in the post 9/11 era.
There are plenty more such pictures in this haunting slide show.
I talked about it this morning over at QandO. I wish I could be as succinct as Bill above in my 9/11 reflections, but I couldn’t. I just poured it all out.
I want a poster of that picture to hang on my living room wall, and I want a 5×7 for my office desk. Where can I buy them?
As much as this image pisses me off and makes a decent argument for many, many dead Muslims, what gets my gall even more are the jackasses in this country so incapable of critical thinking that they fervently believe our own government intentionally instigated or conspired to produce this barbarity.
Thank you for that picture. I never forget, I still think of all those people and why we fight, and I still look at the pictures and slideshows often.
And I still think that was the opening salvo and this is the first battle in a very long and horrific struggle. The deniers and all those buffoon Dem congress pontificators and their fellow travelers unfortunately will cause more to come. If only we could fight this war the way we must to win.
I haven’t forgotten.
Where’s bin Laden again? How’s al Queda doing these days anyway?
I was enraged. I still am.
Angry people make mistakes. Often stupid, long-term mistakes.
So, you espouse the Obama/Osama Doctrine, and want us to invade Pakistan?
I agree with you that we’ve permitted al Qaeda to become far too active. We should have destroyed the regimes that arm, support, finance, and use al Qaeda and other Islamofascist terror gangs long ago - the regimes in Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia spring to mind, but I am willing to add Pakistan to the list.
No, and you seem quite eager to attribute the worst to people you don’t even know. I think that explains a lot.
Then you advocated “destroying” the regimes in Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia (plus Pakistan!), and now I figure it’s something worse than simple projection.
(We destroyed the regime in Iraq–how’s that going, by the way? al Queda crumbling before us yet?)
It’s going great! Saddam and his hideous family are dead, and are no longer murdering 100,000 or so Iraqis a year, and no longer financing Islamofascist terror gangs all over the middle east, as well as paying a huge bounty for each lunatic who blows himself up in an Israeli cafe.
Our real mistake was this democracy crap. We should have just moved on from Iraq right into Iran. Then we wouldn’t have the Mad Mullahs financing terror gangs all over the mideast. In passing, we could knock off Syria, or let Israel take care of it, and then we wouldn’t have Syria financing and arming terror gangs all over the mideast, particularly in Lebanon and Palestine.
I’d call all of that a win-win-win over barbarian savagery for the entire world!
Here’s something for you to consider: Back in the 1970s, there were “indigenous” communist terror movements all over the world. Most of them were armed, trained, financed, and directed by the Soviet Union. When we destroyed that regime, all of a sudden, almost all of those terrorist gangs just…disappeared.
Amazing, huh?
Why do you think that happened?