Enough, Already! [HUGE MEGA-BARF ALERT!!!]

New Times - LA ^ | 6 sep 02 | JILL STEWART

[white trash redneck]

This is so vile as to be beyond words.

On another, though somewhat related topic, it appears that our PC media have decided that the especially graphic WTC pictures (the planes crashing into the towers, the horrific shots of the jumpers) will incite the American people into such a frenzy of revenge that they'll go out and string up the owner of the local 7-11 from the nearest lamp post, and they have censored them.

This is wrong. Americans need to see these pictures as a reminder of the evil that we are facing (the article I have posted shows the need for such reminding). Two places where these pictures are posted are Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs, and Politics and Protest. Are there any other such sites?

[Jolly Rodgers]

I don't find it so vile. There are a few things in it that I would refute, but on the whole it is a fairly accurate representation of reality.

[Jeff Chandler]

Key phrase indicating where the writer is coming from: West Hollywood.

Nuf said.

[i_dont_chat]

>>>>>>>I conducted an unofficial survey of friends and acquaintances on this subject, the kind of people I'd talk about it with over drinks. And a surprising number agreed with me.<<<<<<<

Oh, brother! If her drinkin' buds so say, it must be true.

Please spare me from reading any more of this type of anti-American drivel.

[goldstategop]

Liberals can't stand national self-absorption, huh? That's funny coming from the same people who spend a lifetime collectively gazing their navels and wondering why every one doesn't share their good intentions (when they aren't bashing America or conservatives) mindset.

[Jeff Chandler]

Hey, can't you read? I wrote "Nuf said"! ; )

[goodnesswins]

There's THAT word.........JINGOISTIC........I ABHOR that word.......and I know that when I see it the blathering idiot who wrote it isn't worth reading any further.

[JimSEA]

Instead, say a prayer for the 20,000 obliterated in India, or the 1,100 trampled in Nigeria, or the untold dead child soldiers. Do not buy a "Let's Roll!" T-shirt, but do send a dollar to an Afghan group helping illiterate girls and boys learn to read normal childhood books. Play a small part in helping our self-indulgent nation to become a better citizen of the world. You'll feel oh so much better.

We are helping here in instances where WE ARE NOT THE GUILTY PARY. We are not isolationists.

In 1998 the Islamists (a very significant percent of the Muslims in the world), through Osama bin Ladan, declared war on USA. We did not declare war on them until 9/12/01, after the battle of WTC/Pentagon. On this 9/11/02 we will reaffirm our intent by remembering. This columnist has chosen her side in this war.

[GoreIsLove]

forgot about that provision

[Cyber Liberty]

Try and stay with the program...

;^)

[fporretto]

This woman is consumed by envy. She's upset that others are getting the attention and the sympathy she wants for her pet causes. Although I can resonate to some extent with her criticisms of the victims' families that have gone payola-seeking through lawsuits, most of her screed amounts to no more than "Hey! I think this other stuff that has nothing to do with America or Americans is way more important than the worst atrocity ever visited upon our soil, and you Philistines are raining on my parade!"

What could anyone say to such a person?

The Islamist radicals hate us for precisely the reasons she hates our "self-absorption" over having been attacked in our homeland: they can't abide people who've elected to tend their own gardens in peace and privacy. She and they are so dedicated to the notion that "we are the world" -- that we should consider every sorrow anyone suffers anywhere to have equal weight with what happens to us -- that the American perspective is lost on her. There's no reasoning with someone like that.

Ultimately, hers is a demand that we not have personal or regional concerns. Everyone else around the world is allowed those things, but we, because we're Americans, have to put our own "provincial" cares aside and nurture the world, with never a moment of "selfish absorption" in our own troubles, or in the injustices that have been visited upon us.

Ignore her. Better yet, hold her up to others as an example of what happens when the natural and righteous perspective -- the inclination to tend one's own first, and make room for the sorrows of others only when one's own wounds have been salved -- is somehow made to seem shabby or shameful. It produces prigs like her, who make no sense.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Sender]

I can agree with the writer that often we don't attach much importance or attention to disasters that happen far away. It's easy to ignore TV reports of thousands dead in India or China while we eat supper. On that count, we are often guilty.

THAT SAID, the writer is quite obviously not in our camp as to the great wrong perpetrated on this country one year ago. Sure there has been commercial exploitation of 9/11 but that does NOT justify trivializing the attack or the loss of American lives and freedoms. And I'll wager that the families of the victims of the earthquake in India are a darn sight more concerned with their own tragedy than they are with our 9/11. So why isn't this writer also haranguing the squashed Indians with "enough already, get over it"?

[alnick]

Partly, what makes us not Bosnia, or Israel, or Angola, or Kashmir, or Palestine is that we do not obsessively nurse our most profound grievances against other peoples from generation to generation

I wonder where she stands on reparations.

[windcliff]

The disasters she mentioned were not intentional. 9-11 was. That's a big difference.

[Cicero]

I feel like inviting the author to come over so I can blow my nose on her.

[thegreatbeast]

How the hell is something that takes place like clockwork in India supposed to grab our attention and enmity (huh?) like September 11th. That's idiotic!
There is much to be truly offended by in this article while the wench writing it has weaved just enough earnest observation into it to make it impossible to dismiss out of hand. So much of the federal money pouring in to NYC has apparently been wasted. If they didn't purchase a wonderful, working radio system with the first monies then we could pour our natural treaury into NYC and still see them unprepared. Jail time should be served. God love those courageous men of the Fire & Police Departments but they were doing their jobs. You don't get a parade everyday for doing your job. Forget greedy families and greedy charities!
But Ms. Stewart offends, offends grievously.
Life is for the living. The things of this world are for those in it. Honor heroes in your heart where it counts the most.

[cruiserman]

And magnificent the trial lawyers have been. They have persuaded families to sue the bejesus out of everybody from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which built the towers, to those they allege underwrote Osama bin Laden.

Better that than soaking the taxpayers.

[cruiserman]

But after all, man didn't do that to man. A quake can't be helped. So it's forgotten in an evening or two by us bighearted, courageous citizens of the best country on Earth.

No country is more generous than the USA.