We Are The Dream: A 9/11 Retrospective

I did not post any remarks this past Friday because too many people had given their thoughts and analyses of what happened eight years ago today. Television affiliates around the world, including newspapers and magazines devoted some kind of coverage about what had affected the citizens greatly in New York City. I chose, out of respect, to reserve my feelings about the unwarranted massacre of innocent civilians on American shores.

Until today. I recorded an episode of The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonCraig Ferguson and watched it Saturday afternoon. He made a comment worth sharing that I agreed with. It summed up my feelings succinctly and clearly:

"We're not going anywhere. We're not going anywhere - not now, not then, not in the future, we're not going anywhere. We're here - we are the United States of America, we are more than a country: we are a dream! And we're not going anywhere!"

I feel rather blessed to live in this country where my ancestors fought for their rights and where my Constitutional freedoms mean something to me. As a freelance, independent journalist in this somewhat entertaining small town of Red Bluff, to be able to establish and promote an online production company that I'm proud to represent, I cannot think of anywhere else I'd like to be. My right to report what is going on around me, to be able to petition the government in a responsible manner, to be shown human dignity and respect of my privacy and civil liberties - this is the dream I live in.

There may be a lot of people in America right now grumbling and arguing and sometimes raging against authoritarianism, the state of the economy, how they're losing their jobs, their homes, their individual rights and how they're going to survive in this recession... Aside from all this, we remember the more than 3000 dead Americans from the World Trade Center, the people on board the airliners, and the cities of Arlington, Virginia and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. And they died as Americans that day. Americans.

Now, to those who seek to bring down this country who are reading this article: leave us the f*** alone. I rarely curse in any of my articles but due to the personal nature of this diatribe this isn't a tepid, clinical piece of news about freedom. This is a personal piece directed at misguided and selfish cretins who kill without concern for human life. Don't direct your hatred at innocents. Do the right thing by petitioning those in real power and responsibility.

All life is supposed to be sacred - no matter what your religion or ideology. Christianity isn't perfect either; condoning murder hasn't been a problem for the past 2000 years but the real message keeps getting put aside each time. Stop killing. Raise your children, love your families, life your life in peace. Just leave your bastardized beliefs against us out of our business and leave us the f*** alone.

We all have problems about this world - myself included - but at least I don't kill people to prove a point. That is the absolute last option in my head. I may not be perfect either but I know what I am not in my heart and soul: a murderer, a rapist, an abuser, a bomber, a tyrant, or a terrorist. I am however a giving, caring, generous, gregarious, humor-filled human being.

I urge all of you monsters to evolve into one.