-Dammit, I hate the dumbasses who just now (9/11/01)decide to be patriotic, but let their flags sit outside in the dark and rain, and have a few red, white, and blue threads left on their car antenna. - Sara
Exactly. I REFUSE to hang a flag or wear a pin to show my "american spirit". I jus keep on doing what I have been. Watching History channel specials on America\'s past, listening to Civil War music, and speaking from the heart. I love this country, and I don\'t need no flag waving around to show how guilty I feel for not being more "patriotic" before 9/11.
-Fuggin\' media. 9/11 has been more profitable for them than the superbowl. Oh, let me guess, they\'re donating their profits to the 9/11 fund. Insert rolleyes here. - Sara
Heh, I agree 100%. No need for further detail, jus read any of the posts I\'ve been making in other 9/11 threads.
-I\'m gonna get it for this one, but...I hope everyone saw what a nation of cowards we are. 3 planes hi-jacked successfully by freakin\' utility knives. The people who fought back on the Pennsylvania flight are true heroes. - Sara
Oh I agree here too. Actually, I think Post 9/11 has shown jus how big of cowards we are on the whole. Yes, there\'s a quite a few brave souls who dropped everything - risking their jobs - to drive up to New York for a few weeks and help dig out the rubble and bring food, people who were at the recruiters office the next day signing up for the military, and other such acts. On the whole tho.. we\'ve been running around like a bunch of f*cking chickens screaming about how the sky is falling.. pissing away our freedoms one by one so that big daddy gov\'t can look out for us and keep us safe from terrorism. Pfft. Yes, what happened was a great tragedy. But jus think at how BIG this country is.. and how many people live here. These terrorists could have picked much -MUCH - more strategic targets like oil reserves or nuclear power plants and caused death and destruction on a MASSIVE scale. Remember the confusion and pandemonium caused over one cell phone sattelite going haywire? If they\'d have knocked out 4 of the six nuclear power plants that supply the east coast and midwest with power.. we\'d have been totally screwed. Remember how much damage was being estimated by Y2k if it would have happened? Well that\'s basically the equivilent right there. We don\'t know how to live without electricity anymore.. we\'re so wired that if anything happened to our power supply it would be catastrophic.
Don\'t fool yourselves. The terrorists didn\'t "Wound" America. Hell it was barely a pinscratch compaired what our Nation consists of. Yet everyone\'s running around scared like it\'s the end of the frickin world. Give me a break.. makes me feel almost ashamed to be American if I\'m grouped with such cowards. Afraid to fly.. pfft. Christ people, grow a pair. Or hell, jus be cowards and hole yourself away in your homes and be paranoid of the outside world. You\'re 1,000,000 times more likely to get injured or killed sitting at home than of dying in a terrorist attack.
Oh, and just to add a lil bit to the cop argument. You guys are right.. they are jus like everyone else in the workforce. They\'re jus doing their jobs. Take a look at your co-workers tho.. that\'s the same with cops. I can\'t speak for everywhere, but around here anyhow you can speed 60 miles over the limit at the beginning of the month.. but at the end of the month when quota time comes around you\'d better make sure you\'re ass STAYS at 55. Also, jus like someone who\'s been on any job long enough.. you start thinking that you
know your job, and you become arrogant in your experience. That tends to make dickheads more often than not.. expecially when you add in a bit of authoritative power in the mix.
Cops (IMO) are a mixed bag.. jus like everyone else. Take em on a case by case basis.. cause alot of them are pretty awesome and understanding people who take pride in helping people out and protecting their communities. Others, see it only as they\'re job.. and you\'re nothing to them but another step closer to filling their quota for that month.
