2002-09-11

[mdlbear]

I don't feel a whole lot safer than I did a year ago.

I feel a lot less free.

More this evening, maybe.

Comments

[figmo.livejournal.com]

You and 63% of the American public.

I was amazed when Katie Couric announced the results of the latest poll to that effect this morning. Everything's been so jingoistic it was refreshing to hear a brief voice of sanity.

I agree

[carol-kitty.livejournal.com]

It is one thing to remember 9/11. It is another to go overboard and keep reminding people of it.

[freyjaw.livejournal.com]

Eric and I didn't listen to, read, or see the 9/11 coverage. This was deliberate. (They pre-empted the traffic reports for a memorial. Gah!) There's just too much, well, er, too much. Period. We all can grieve and remember in our own ways without having it organized and televized and media-spattered everywhere.

Thank you for your strength. You helped me get through and live life fiercely in defiance of terror! (Pop-rocks Oreos? I've seen it all...)

{hug}

From the Christian Science Monitor...

[tanais.livejournal.com]

...which has been surprisingly recommended to me by several friends as one of the more unbiased sources for foreign policy news and editorials...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0911/p02s03-wogi.html

"Is America the 'good guy'? Many now say, 'No.' ... Americans see their global role differently from the way others see
it. So the Monitor asked people in 16 countries this question: 'Is America the good guy?'"

Re: From the Christian Science Monitor...

[mdlbear]

Good article -- many thanks.

It's not just our foreign policy I'm worried about; 9/11 is being used by our own government as a convenient excuse to take away as many rights as they can get away with. And calling it a "war" against terrorism gives them all sorts of extra powers. Very scary.

Re: From the Christian Science Monitor...

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

handy bandwagon for other governments too; and it almost annoys me, the way it's seen as the only disaster that's had meaning or long-term effects

[firecat]

That pretty much sums it up for me, too.

Oh, and I have less faith in the perspicacity of the average citizen than I used to. And never did have a lot to begin with.

lost freedom

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I'm just back from Ireland, and incredibly jet-lagged (flew back on the 11th, seeing lots of St. Christopher medals and flags on folks), so I'll probably read the whole article when my brain can process it. (I'm just hoping I make sense in this post.) I found it interesting that the night before, in Ireland, they had a TV news commentary being critical of America for human rights violations in the wake of the events of September 11th. (I refuse to use shorthand for it.) They also had a dramatization of Flight 93 that was too heart-wrenching to watch, esp. the interviews with real family members.)

It was weird, too, to find the nation of Freedom-Fighters speaking cynically of America talking as if THEY were the only ones affected "And what about our Irish losses?" And I suddenly had the hair on my neck stand up when I realized something vital about the police and firefighters in NYC. They were predominantly Irish decendants or immigrants.

I don't think the Irish approve of how we are "remembering" the fallen with loss of liberties.

Lots of thoughts stirred up by that one. May comment in a posting, later, when my brain is functioning again.