Morrow: The Case for Rage and Retribution [BRILLIANT]

Time.com ^ | 11/15/00 | Lance Morrow

[BurkeanCyclist]

Amen.

[Woodkirk]

Fire the grief counselors and give them a shovel or export them to Tabul.

[PoisedWoman]

Nothing will stem my anger. I hate having people call it a "tragedy." It's an OUTRAGE. May our rage come out! Put the fatuous grief counselors out of business. We do, indeed, need the power of our fury.

Thanks for posting this brilliant editorial that so eloquently states my thoughts and feelings. Let's not forget that rage, fury, and anger are feelings, too, wholly appropriate now and in the days, weeks, and years to come.

[Alberta's Child]

Good article. I would like to see a stop to all of these candlelight vigils and "national prayer services." Prayer has its place, but not if it promotes the development of sappy, effeminate men who should instead be laying steel to the neck of the enemy.

[BurkeanCyclist]

I would like to see a stop to all of these candlelight vigils and "national prayer services."

I think we needed to mourn the victims (though we do get a bit soppy these days). However, I would have liked a few references at prayer services to the God of Battles strengthening our arm, or "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and the United States of America is His instrument."

[dep]

exactly right. just perfect.

now, let's find and kill the bad guys. let's find and kill those who sponsored the bad guys. let's find and kill those who merely cheered on the bad guys. let's find and kill everyone to whom news of the world trade center and pentagon brought a smile.

and let is delight in the task, for our cause is just.

dep

[Coolidge]

They did sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and the end of the service on Friday.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

I believe that pure fury, properly focused, can be an incredibly productive and positive emotion. I am going to worship God tomorrow. If anyone tells me it is time to begin the healing, I will lovingly tell them to take a long walk off a short pier. I am full of rage and I will not be assuaged until the blood of my brothers and sisters is avenged. May God Bless this Republic!

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

ANOTHER THING! This is NOT, I repeat..NOT, a tragedy. Hamlet is a tragedy. Oedipus is a tragedy. This was an atrocity. I was getting a battery for my watch this afternoon. I heard a bimbo complaining that the thing about this atrocity that ticks her off is that a marine ball has been cancelled. I wanted to pick that babe by the hair and bunny slap her. I wanted to say girl, you better get on your knees and pray that your man don't come home in a body bag. Another example of a prozac-sedated mind-numbed automaton. May God have mercy on her sin-sick soul.

[PoisedWoman]

If anyone tells me it is time to begin the healing, I will lovingly tell them to take a long walk off a short pier.

LOL! What restraint -- I'd get behind them and shove.

[BurkeanCyclist]

And for God's sake, get Joyce Brothers off TV!

[AMMON-CENTRIST]

The Case for Rage and Retribution

Only Jehovah God, Lord of ALL UNIVERSES have the right to VENGENCE!!!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

In for the long haul with "purple American Rage".

[Max McGarrity]

BTTT

[BurkeanCyclist]

Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord...

...and the U.S.A. is His instrument.

[neutrino]

Thank you for posting this!

[AMMON-CENTRIST]

and the U.S.A. is His instrument.

WRONG!!!!

[neutrino]

Only Jehovah God, Lord of ALL UNIVERSES have the right to VENGENCE!!!

Really? Then I'll go for payback. With interest. And handling charges.

Though the payback may be of Biblical proportions...

[AMMON-CENTRIST]

You need to REPENT!!!!

[Clinton's a liar]

Absolutely excellent post!

"As the bodies are counted, into the thousands and thousands, hatred will not, I think, be a difficult emotion to summon. Is the medicine too strong? Call it, rather, a wholesome and intelligent enmity—the sort that impels even such a prosperous, messily tolerant organism as America to act. Anyone who does not loathe the people who did these things, and the people who cheer them on, is too philosophical for decent company."

That was certainly worth repeating.