Day: September 11, 2010

The Sanctity Of 9/11

Remember the day the country stood still?

The day some radical zealots flew planes into buildings in the name of God ….the day of infamy, if you will, to quote another person from history…..from that day forward, 9/11,  it has become some sort of sacred event, as it should be….when Americans woke up and realized that nothing is safe in today’s world….

The day when 3000+ died and thousands more were injured in one way or another….we, as Americans have used this day as a day of mourning and remembrance…..we have had proposals to make it a national holiday…..we have said that the ground is sacred and a religious structure should NOT be constructed near-by, as a courtesy to the families of those killed……some have tried to turn this into a sacred event….not my place to judge yes or no……

But as the years go by it becomes more and more out of the minds of Americans…..with the exception of politicians that want to use the event as a fund raiser or a campaign slogan…….we have several politics making political appearances on the day of mourning….not for the mourning but rather for personal gain…

I think that if this is truly a sacred day of mourning, then anyone who uses it for personal gain is an un-American lout and they should be called out on the uncaring manipulation of the day for their own gain….I do not care which one of the lousy parties it is…..this should be a crime!  What message does this send to the people of the country?  Does it mean that the further away from the act the less important it is?

This should be a CRIME!

Can You Say….Xenophobia?

No…it is not a world on Star Trek!  It can best be describes as…..an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.

I guess I started thinking about this after the Mosque saga and then onto the preacher in Florida and his silly idea of burning the Koran…….(glad to say at the time of this writing the preacher has canceled the burning event).  Do you not love the idea of an organization named “Dove World Outreach”…the dove?  The symbol of peace….used as a tool for hate…gotta love the nuts on these people…..a Christian organization?  Makes me think of something Gandhi once said…”I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

Xenophobia?  Remember the days of yore, the 1920’s and 30’s, in Germany…. a party came to power basically blaming a whole race for the troubles of the country….before we have lots of BS…I am only comparing political atmosphere here)….then there were idiot zealots that flew planes into buildings all in the name of religion…..and then there was a Mosque that was purposed and the crazies started blaming a whole religion for the act of a couple of morons….and now we have had this Christ wannabe threatening to burn the holy book of a religion because it is somehow “evil”….again blaming an entire religion for the acts of a few nut jobs……it was hate in the 1920’s…it is hate today!

This can be said to be one of those “recurrent cycles” that I have been writing about….this type of thinking has occurred and re-occurred many times throughout history….when times are tough…especially economic times…..we tend to try and blame someone for the troubles and that is where the xenophobic attitude prevails…..

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”……..do you know who said that?……..(pause here for reflection)…….not sure?  It was the hero of the conservatives….Thomas Jefferson……all the whackos quote him liberally with the tree of liberty thing and maybe they should spend a little more time reading about the man……for he saw what hate really was…..HATE!  No matter how hard we try we cannot disguise hate as anything but what it is …..HATE!