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Friday, September 04, 2009
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Day is
Almost Upon Us
Almost Upon Us
Eating the Towers. Hold, JS. Hold! Let us handle this...
I'M INSTAPUNK. THERE ARE ALWAYS WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS. Last year on September Eleven I featured an incredibly moving YouTube video by one of our more talented commenters, who's also a blogger in his own right. On that occasion I proposed that there was something mystical about the images he had chosen to assemble into his video poem about the event:
The author, Peregrine John, maintains
that it's only a chronology. It's
much more than that. At the beginning, you get to see the Twin Towers
thrusting through the clouds. This is who we are, who we were, the most
vivid possible example of American exceptionalism. We just shone.
Then comes the attack. And I've spoken with Peregrine John about this, and he denies it, but if you look, you can see that there is a face of predation in almost every single frame of the assault on the towers. I don't want to overplay it, but this is no accident. It was no "tragedy." It was an attack on the United States of America by forces of, well, evil.
Watch from frame to frame. Does it not look as if the Towers are being eaten?
Regardless. Look at the footage. What in the Obama campaign convinces you that he feels any of the pain -- or meaning -- of this loss? What makes you think he would fight in remembrance?
Then comes the attack. And I've spoken with Peregrine John about this, and he denies it, but if you look, you can see that there is a face of predation in almost every single frame of the assault on the towers. I don't want to overplay it, but this is no accident. It was no "tragedy." It was an attack on the United States of America by forces of, well, evil.
Watch from frame to frame. Does it not look as if the Towers are being eaten?
Regardless. Look at the footage. What in the Obama campaign convinces you that he feels any of the pain -- or meaning -- of this loss? What makes you think he would fight in remembrance?
Before I ran the video here, I discussed my ideas about "deep meaning" with Peregrine John. I told him of the oddest image I had seen from that day:
At the time of the attacks there was one photo which
seemed to show a
well defined demonic face in the smoke of the towers, and efforts to
debunk the photo as a fake failed. What blew me away in your photo
sequence was that it was possible to see such faces in virtually every
image of the towers in distress. Yes, I know the brain is wired to see
such things, and I'm not reading more into it than that, but...I also
don't know for sure that it's NOT there.
Modest as he is (I called him "reticent"), he conceded that he was unsettled by the process of examining the images. He told me in an email:
I've wondered a bit about that, myself. Never made
much of it overtly,
since frankly we have enough trouble being taken seriously
already.
But yeah; I see it.
Now we're eight years on. And we have a president who has never shown the slightest emotion about what happened on 9/11. (Go ahead. I dare you. One genuine sign of emotion by Obama about this or anything.) (Hell, Peggy Noonan just figured out today that he is cold. What took her?)
As we approach another anniversary, we're being asked to believe that our president cares about a lot of things, including us and our futures. Hard to believe. Why? Because he insists on surrounding himself with people who despise both America and us, meaning average Americans.
For example, this particular conflation of opponents of his healthcare bill with "right wing domestic terrorists" was not instigated by him or his administration, but where is his outraged repudiation of such sentiments? Absent. The response was to quietly remove the offending post, not to denounce it or reaffirm his commitment to being president of all American citizens. Why? He isn't.
And in a disturbing echo of the hatefulness of Jeremiah Wright, we learn that Obama has appointed, without congressional confirmation, a man who controls a $30 billion budget for "green jobs" who believes that 9/11 was either an inside job or a conspiracy of silence by Bush administration officials who knew of the plot and approved it for their own bellicose/mercenary purposes. Democrats would like us to sniff and snort away such an appointment because he is only a "mid-level" official. And we can only ask, since when are people who have budget authority for $30 billion in spending "mid-level"? Who the fuck is "high-level"?
Here's the bottom line. We're being tested. The country made a big mistake in electing an untried, accomplishment-free narcissist because he made speeches that appealed to people who don't know what real eloquence consists of. (uh, articulate wisdom, not euphonious platitudes celebrating the self delivering the speech...) But there comes a time when you have to ask brutal questions -- are you for us or against us? Obama is against us. He doesn't care about defending America from her enemies. He just doesn't. He thinks we deserve everything that's happened to us. He thinks we deserve everything he intends to do to us.
If you disagree, I invite you to cite any quotation, any possible echo he's uttered of what we've written about 9/11 since it happened. You can't. He doesn't care.
Here's what we've said over the years:
I defy you to show me anything from Obama or his nasty wife that reflects a similar recognition of the price Americans have paid for being the kindest nation in the history of all nations on earth.
