Remembering 9/11
9 years later, we must admit that the terrorists have won. While it was at best a shallow cover for our already heinous foreign policy, we were told that we were hated for our freedoms. And what have we done since then?
Our people live in fear, divided against each other in bitter contempt, debating even basic reality.
Our economy has collapsed, our surpluses run aground on the banks of insolvency.
Our government of liberty and justice for all now makes a policy of assassinating even its own citizens, of kidnapping and torturing men and women around the globe with impunity, of criminalizing dissent, of holding and torturing political prisoners indefinitely without even the illusion of a fair trial.
We commit ourselves and our children to wars of foreign aggression, squandering whatever reputation we had as a force for justice in the world even as we squander trillions on murdering innocents so that the pockets of cronies can be lined with gold.
Corporate billionaires hire demagogues to preach ignorance and hatred, to shape the conversation, to favor the destruction of every protection we once enjoyed, to utterly destroy a middle class that was once the envy of the world, to end democracy and all of the rights that lie at its heart.
In the wake of 9/11, traitors have spared no expense to destroy our country from within, acting from the halls of power, the gilded towers of commerce, seeking our ruin, pursuing courses of action that make a mockery of the morals that they claim to hold, that piss on the ashes of our constitution, that rob an entire people of their wealth and prosperity, built across generations of hard work.
The terrorists have won.
