Friday, September 11th, 2009
I haven’t forgotten
I haven’t forgotten The Spirit of 9/11™ — the time in the immediate aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on American soil since the Murrah Federal Building bombing when Americans of all political stripes put aside their differences to work together to defeat the terrorists who had just slapped us silly to the tune of 3,000+ dead.
Boy, that sure lasted long, didn’t it?
And since then, 9/11 has devolved into a political football, with conservatives regularly bashing liberals over the head with the corpses in an effort to paint them as insufficiently patriotic and a Fifth Column in the War on Terror™©®. And that’s when they weren’t using it to declare all Muslims untermenchen worthy only of being shoved into Adam Yoshida’s macrowave ovens.
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, is the most profane desecration of the memory of 9/11 in my mind.
While we’re remembering 9/11, I’m wondering if any of the GOP & anti-health care reform are remembering the surviving victims who are chronically ill due to smoke exposure from Ground Zero who have NO health coverage or access to adequate health care?
http://www.healthcare-now.org/action-alert-support-the-911-responders/. While we’re remembering 9/11, we should also think of the rescue workers & other victims who are very sick due to exposure & have no health care coverage & no way to access it.
Weird, how they commemorate 9/11 while they still worry about those pesky illegals getting coverage & seem to be willing to allow poorer American citizens to go on suffering because of lack of coverage; including sick 9/11 survivors. In the words of Michael Moore: “SICKO!”
Comment by CK — September 11, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
CK - True, especially considering the fact that our government lied about the air quality at Ground Zero.
Comment by J. A. Baker — September 11, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
CK - Funny thing about wingnuts - they only care about people before or after their actual lives, not during.
I hear very little about the 9/11 survivors and rescue workers who now live with chronic lung damage sustained that day.
Comment by JJ — September 13, 2009 @ 10:04 pm