It has been an exhausting
Sep 12 2001
It has been an exhausting day for the entire world. I think I will go to bed
much earlier tonight, assuming I can sleep. Like much of the country, I've been
mesmerized by the hyper-real coverage of an event that hardly seems real at all.
The CNN logo remains in inverted green on my
retina when I close my eyes; I haven't missed over 20 minutes of coverage since
9am. That can't be healthy. As the dust finally starts to settle in NY, the
first ashen wings of a unified anger are beginning to rise. Pain knows little of
restraint and it saddens me, because I know that misdirected hatred and
unfettered anger could result in hate crimes against Muslims and people of the
Middle East living in the U.S. Unlike many instigators on indymedia.org, I am
not advocating a suppression of anger. That would be a great injustice against
those who died, but a greater injustice would be an unfocused and wasted anger.
We owe it to all those who have suffered to focus our anger at the throat of
injustice and to refrain from blind slashing into every dark corner.
I think I'll steal John's entry (from http://www.johnlockhart.com/):
I think I'll steal John's entry (from http://www.johnlockhart.com/):
2001.09.11 03:45pm Judgement Day works both ways.
"When the buried infant shall be asked for what sin she was slain,
…then shall a soul know what it has produced."
—Qur'an The Darkening 81:8-9,14
…then shall a soul know what it has produced."
—Qur'an The Darkening 81:8-9,14
As a side note, I've deliberately taken down my link to indymedia.org. Once an
attempt to funnel grassroots news, it is now a forum for people who either
lack the capacity grasp the full effect of world events or selfishly seek
attention at any cost. What these people fail to realize is that the
anti-globalization movement collapsed with the towers of the World Trade
Center. And that's all I have to say on that.