911 ten years ago

September 17th, 2011 - By j guevara

This is my 911 article from a segment I used to do for Radio New York International’s, ‘The Johnny Lightening Show’, From The Jungle with j guevara. I was living in the jungle at the time, and i’d send in my weekly segment. This article drew quite a response for a little-known call-in talk show. That was 10 years ago.

911

Though I moved to the jungle of Costa Rica to disassociate myself from man’s insanity, this incredibly ridiculous act of unimaginable madness is inescapable. Who could not be distraught over the torment the families of so many innocent victims must be going through? Again, elitist games have collapsed, and again it is the common that pays most dearly. And while they lie buried under steel and glass, children orphaned, and lives destroyed, the incompetent, pompous politicos and their mogul masters who should be lying under that rubble are shuttled off to underground bunkers and surrounded by armed protection. Although it was Corporate America, not Democratic Republic America that was attacked, they will use this tragedy in Machiavellian tradition to whittle away at your freedom in return for security. And Americans will thank them as the founding fathers’ words fall on deaf ears: “He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”

Take stock all you gofer politicians who manipulate patriotism through our loved ones’ death. Should freedom of information reveal fifty years from now that like Pearl Harbor you knew of this atrocity beforehand, and your inaction was calculated to connive Americans into a protracted war to bolster the faltering Bush dynasty, …no sweat. Like us, the next generation will only shrug their shoulders and fall for the same old trick. Pull my finger.

If there is anything bright to come of this, no longer do those towers of unmitigated corporate greed overshadow the Statue of Liberty. If only we could make that symbolism a reality.

Some have had the lucidity to ask, ‘Where was god?’ Yet who has had the perception to see that god was co-piloting those four planes – Allah Akbar! National day of prayer? I have but one prayer:

Yo god. You best not exist
For someday should we meet
You will be the one
Whose day of repentance hath come

Then maybe like a witch’s cast this god-spell insanity will be broken and humanity will finally take responsibility for its own existence. I cannot imagine any deity that would not finally breathe a sigh of relief.

As for finger pointing, need I say which finger to use? And where to point it? If the FBI was not conducting warfare on downtrodden Indian reservations, sniping mothers, gassing women and children, searching for some lecherous congressman’s licentious paramour, and disarming law abiding citizens, they’d have had the manpower to intercept and diffuse the bastards they are really paid to protect us from. If the INS gave half the attention to investigating Middle East student visas as they do to hassling grape pickers, they just might have noticed a peculiar ethnic increase in flight training schools. If the CIA spent as much time pursuing intelligence as they do coca groves, they’d know what’s going on under and up their nose. If airlines considered the human factor above protecting the ‘corporate bottom line’ they would have had professionally trained security rather than cost-effective, minimum wage rent-a-wannabes. And if some fanatics happen to get through, why is the lavatory door more secure than the entrance to the cockpit? What forethought – even though I’m being highjacked I can still piss in privacy.

If you had let the Russians have at ‘em there wouldn’t be a Taliban, Afghanistan would not have become the hellhole it is, and Bush/Reagan made billionaire O’shame of bin Laden would not be a threat. And knock off the bovine manure, this whole thing has Saddam Hussein’s middle fingerprint all over it. So when you’re done with the Afghanis, finish what you started in Iraq. Then Qaddafi, then Arafat, then Hezballah, Hamas, Shining Path, Tamil Eelam, Sikh assassins, Kashmiri factions, Ayatollah Too-Many, right-wing death squads, left-wing kidnappers, state supported terrorism, radical fundamentalist from clinic bombers and doctor murderers to cowboy gay bashers, KKK, neo-Nazi, talk-radio hate mongers and theocratic militias of pseudo patriots who insult the meaning of liberty. Bring them to justice? Right! In a body bag. Get the job done. Our patience is none. We have had enough!

With the forty billion dollars miraculously found for this cause, I could buy the minds and hearts of every extremist on this planet and their sorry nations with change to spare. Regardless, in the name of decency may every American swear out of respect and remembrance for those thousands of innocent lives needlessly sacrificed, if anybody pilfers one dollar of that money may their hand be cut off, … at the neck

As for this act of terror, it will go down in history as the most incredibly miscalculated action ever perpetrated on behalf of a cause. What did they hope to accomplish? Fear? They have strengthened our courage. Division? They have brought a nation together like never before. Dissension? Americans have now put their differences on detention (except, of course, the Christian-right who historically have never hesitated to step on others’ pain to leverage their agenda). If the perpetrators were merely delivering a message of hate, mission accomplished.

Now comes reply.

Unless the world’s last remaining superpower is a eunuch, I shudder to think what this sleeping giant is about to unleash. You scum sucking, stewardess throat cutting, cowardly bastards, conceived by your mothers from snake semen have canceled your ticket to ride; your right to exist amongst humankind is revoked. May whatever deranged deity you worship have mercy on your despicable souls, for you will find none in the hearts of any American or other civilized member of the human race.

And once all the macho-strut, tough enough, Rambo, make-my-day, jingoistic rhetoric is done; when passions subside and vengeance once again shows itself to be the hollow satisfaction that it always is; when Gandhi’s warning finally rings true that ‘an eye for an eye and in time the whole world is blind’, may we put down our clubs, sit around a warm fire and once and for all come to a conclusion over just exactly how we are going to divvy the waterhole. Where do you want your precious pissing ground to be? Where do you want to praise your pathetic excuse of a deity, preserve your useless stupidity under the guise of tradition, and practice your ridiculous, oppressive mores you call culture? Then draw a line of reasonable boundary; dare pity the first bastard that crosses it.

(Note how everything mentioned in the article came true… except the solution)

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