Fw:WRL on Attacks, some thoughts on day 1

[Jasper Fidget]

From: "Nika Bertram" <ame16 at uni-koeln.de>

>
> i don't see how killing even more civilians (or do you really think you
> will catch the big ones, this time?) could better things or bring back
> anyone of those victims so sadly missed.
>
> oh.. shit.
>
> nika
>
>

I am merely telling you what I see and feel around me, and I honestly have
never witnessed so much collective rage.  Rage, like heat, like water, like
any primal force of nature, needs some place to direct itself, and some
means to move, lest it explode in its container.

Personally, I tend toward libertarian political views, and libertarians
oppose the use of force under any circumstances (indeed, we Libs have
received notification from our party chairman restating this position
concerning the current crisis).  But I suppose it is only the most extreme
circumstances that inform us of our own true politics, because I cannot
accept this position as my own.  I believe our only possible course of
action is to take action--dramatic action.  Otherwise, we may never recover
from this; the blow was too great, the harm too grave, the insult too
profound.

Tens of thousands of our people were taken from us, people we love, need,
and respect.  Hundreds more died in the self-less act of trying to save
them, and in this aspect alone we are gravely injured: these men were
indisputably the best of us, the most noble, the purest examples of our
spirit.  The very notion of not avenging them makes me dizzy with nausea.

On Tuesday, I stood and watched my beloved skyline crumble from the action
of a few sick monsters.  Those buildings were important to me; they meant
something to me; they stood in parallel to my life and held some small but
important part of the meaning I've given it.  They can never be
replaced--nor should they be--but they can still stand as symbols for what
it means to be an American.

Jasper Fidget