[lit-ideas] Re: Five Years Ago
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:13:23 -0500
AR:
What are your thoughts on five years ago?
The same as they were 5 years ago:
1. That we were attacked again by people we've known for some time are
desperate to get our attention.
2. That the attack was an horrendous crime but a minimal military and
material threat to our existence as a nation.
3. That we would probably kill tens of thousands of innocent, very poor
people in revenge that would accomplish nothing.
4. That the blood-lust would make billions for many American
corporations.
5. That none of the root causes of 9/11 would be addressed.
Thoughts not the same as they were 5 years ago:
1. I never guessed that Osama bin Ladin would still be free.
2. I never imagined that the United States, the country I love most of
all for its dedication to individual human rights, would become a nation
that tortured people, that disappeared people, that assassinated people,
that imprisoned without recourse to justice.
3. I never imagined that my government would argue it had the right to
listen in on my phone calls, monitor which books I read, or read my e-mails
without judicial warrants.
4. I never would have believed that America could be so stupid in it's
response to the world.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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