Let me tell you about my Twin Towers. NOT the “World Trade Center,” but my Twin Towers. When I was 10 years old my uncle was a Port Authority cop. This meant that his “beat” was the entryways to NY and NJ, specifically shipping terminals, bridges, tunnels, airports, and waterfront developments. And the Twin Towers.
One summer evening my uncle decided that he was going to give us a treat nobody ever gets. So he rallied a few of us and brought us to the top of the Twin Tower. The OTHER Twin Tower, the north tower. Not the one with the observation deck near the top, the one with the giant antenna on the roof and nothing but a 3 foot high fence between you and a 1000 foot plunge. I was fucking scared out of my mind. It was sheer terror being up there; I can feel the fear in my chest even as I write this. The winds were strong and we moved closer and closer to the fence. I slid my feet slowly, inching forward. I touched the giant antenna, I leaned over the edge, I felt the wind in my face and the sick fear in my belly...
AND IT WAS GREAT!
I LOVED being up there. I loved that place and I came to love those buildings. It was one of the best days of my life and I never saw them again without thinking of that day. THAT’S why I was hurt that day. I was hurt because they’d fucked with my home, my people and my childhood. Someone stole a lot from me that day.
When it happened I screamed the same curses you did. I swore the same oath you did, that I would get revenge. I gave food and money. I wanted to run down there to help the rescuers but they kept saying over and over on the news “Do NOT come down here. We don’t need any more men”. It’s still a small shame in my heart that I listened to those newscasts and didn’t just go down there. I have a friend who did and I’m so jealous of him. I needed to help, to do something. I just felt helpless. And I hated my enemies: America’s enemies. I hated them with a passion. I hated the Afghanis and the Iraqis. I hated Osama Bin Laden. I hated those fucking Middle East bastards who lived in a turbulent, fucked up land and whose people fought each other constantly over religious necessities and national borders and had done so for centuries. And now they’d brought it here to my house.
Article comments
1 - Georgio
Boy oh boy..You said everything that I have always thought...I love saying it like it is and you said here is spades..unfortunately many here will call you an asshole and probably me also but so what...at least you had the guts to call a spade a spade..
I would like to add that the part about the religious bastards fighting over everything....is just what this country is heading into..we will be just as fucked up as they are..opps ...we are as fucked up as them we just don't know it yet..Tom Jefferson was right..we need to get rid of all leaders and start over again.
2 - Star
Thanks, George. It's scary to write stuff that you know is true, but everybody's gonna hate you for because it isn't "P.C."
I agree, we're totally at the point of being screwed up and if we're not careful we're going to sanitize all of our freedoms right the hell out of here. The world has ALWAYS been a dangerous place - that's why governments even exist, to care for their people. A government is basically a couple of your friends you put in charge of a big "kitty" of everyone's money. When you all decide to spend the money on caring for the group that's how government sponsored housing and healthcare come into being. That AINT "communism" the dirty word, it's the very definition of government.
You don't get "free-er" by giving that government more control over your life, you get free-er by giving it LESS. You give it more ability to help it's people and consequently they have the ability to rule themselves better because they don't have to worry about some of their basic needs. And we're about to piss that all away because we're giving away control.
3 - spoogy55
whats going on here
4 - bliffle
Recounting some of the deceits by which the American Rulers tricked us into allowing them to raid and loot the treasury just before Bush got dismissed from office.