I take no pleasure in this...

[pasithea]

It's annual I Told You So day again.

I remember in 2001 how angry people were at me for being so cynical. I said the republicans would use the event as a way to institute martial law and build up the military. They'd use it as a weapon against liberals. They'd use it as a justification to invade Iraq. They'd use it as a weapon against immigrants and non-christians.

Everyone was outraged at me. They said the repubs were not a bunch of monsters and that surely they wouldn't be using such a horrible tragedy to their gain. No one could be that shallow.

I wish the people who said those things had been right but, I did try to warn you. :(

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[paka.livejournal.com]

I didn't say nobody could be that shallow.

But I remember saying stuff like nobody could be so blatant and tactless. I figured they would do the Reagan thing - you know, bomb the hell out of some Moslems, watch the ratings soar and go back to raping the country.

Fuckers. All they're good for is sitting around while people die because they don't give a shit. They sat around while people died in New York, they sat around while people died in New Orleans, they sat on their asses while people die in Iraq. It almost makes me want a vengeful god and a hell just to have some justice.

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

No cake for me, thanks.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I feared you'd be right, I wanted it not to be right, but as soon as Jerry falwell opened his mouth to blame 9/11 on the ACLU and gay people and feminists, I knew what we were going to be in for.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh hey. That's right. You were on @shout when I was banned for my opinion. That seems like such a long time ago now.

[centauress.livejournal.com]

And I can hear him even today, 'Oh, but you're not right because we still have our rights and unless you're doing something wrong you hven't lost any rights!'

Yeah. Sell me that bridge in Manhattan, jerk.

[nikki-nmt.livejournal.com]

Unfortunatly Iraq has been on a list to 'invade at slightest provocation' for awhile now. 9/11 just gave the escuse of an outraged public so no one would stop and ask for proof.

On Sept 12, 2001 we were the most empathised with. Today, we are the most hated nation in the world.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I wasn't reading your, or any, journals in 2001, but if I had read you saying that after 9/11 I would have thought you were overreacting, shaken my head and thought "Everyone mourns differently." As if you were just becoming very pessimistic and paranoid as some kind of coping mechanism.

Even if you did not literally tell me so, I think in spirit, you told me so. Damn. Though I did think that the congress singing on the steps of the capital building was a giant wank-fest that would soon be reviled as such once politics got back to normal.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

It really wasn't long after the event that you could see people going back to their own little camps, yeah.

[voidheart.livejournal.com]

Casandra syndrome ... ain't it a pain?

No one ever believes it can get 'that bad'. The truly amazing thing is those that have all the facts at their disposal (military that have been deployed for a year at a time for example) and continue to support the Shrub. Crazy.

The picture they buried a long time ago with Bush flying on Air Force One after the bombings with a small secret smile on his lips. Even in the absence of anything else, that should have been a warning to folks.

I admire you for continuing to try to get people to listen. I just want to hit the blind now to maybe roll their eyes back into position, because debate doesn't do much. I've gotten tired of trying to convince idiots not to drink the kool-aid. If there was only a way to make them alone pay for their choices, their votes, without the rest of us suffering for their foolishness. People facing the consequences of their choices without others being hurt for it is truly in the realm of fantasy in this country though.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

No shocks from me. And by the time the Patriot Act had been passed, i was certain the terrorists had won.

[singedrac.livejournal.com]

That's not fair! I totally agreed with you on all that.

[azikale.livejournal.com]

I think I was cynical from the start. Its such a pity that the world has taken a far darker turn since 9/11.

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

When I heard about it, I knew that we'd go too far.

Time and time again, I go back to that passage by Friedrich Nietzsche, "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you"

In Hunting monsters, we'd become monsters ourselves.