Words of Power #28: On 9/11/06, Ask Yourself "Is This My Country?"

Words of Power #28: On 9/11/06, Ask Yourself "Is This My Country?"

It could be held in New York harbor, instead of Boston harbor. Patriots could hurl television sets into the water, instead of tea crates.

It has been five years since the slaughter of the innocents on 9/11/01.

The ports have not been secured. The chemical plants have not been secured. The 911 Commission recommendations remain unfulfilled.

Bin Laden and Zawahiri are alive and free to incite violence and hatred. The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan. The Pakistani government has established a truce with the tribes of Waziristan, allowing Al Qaeda and the Taliban to carve out a sanctuary.

In the immediate aftermath of the 911 attacks, unprecedented and almost universal good will flowed toward the USA. But the Bush-Cheney regime's foolish military adventure in Iraq and its policy of torture and degradation of prisoners have turned that good will into unprecedented and almost universal contempt and condemnation.

The US is isolated in the world.

The US Constitution (and the Bill of Rights in particular) has been seriously undermined.

And what does ABC offer you? An abomination from the hell realms.

Without commercial interruption. Well, of course, it was a commercial. No need to interrupt it.

I did not know John P.