9/11

What a sad person you must be to have no compassion and talking absolute piffle putting it mildly………….

Now thats a good question, but ime not sure how to give you an answer. Truthfully we all know the Americans are big on over stating things, but being put in the postion of dying a horrible painful death by fire or hopefully the shock of throwing myself out of the building and dying before I hit the ground ?

What a dilemma?

@fastcars wrote:

If a similar thing happened in Britain do you reckon we would throw ourselves out of the top floor window of a skyscraper.

Or do you think that the Americans inborn exhibitionist nature got the better of them and they wanted to go out in style.

They weren’t just Americans numbnuts.

No not really, people die in their thousands every single day, being in the wrong place at the wrong time is sod’s law. Literally hundreds of thousands have died because of 9/11 in the name of American democracy. I have more sympathy for those that are tortured by the American government and have been for two centuries.

Here is that sympathy thing rearing its head, again. Sword, do you really feel more sympathy for, say, the people who have been killed in Iraq, than the people who perished in the Twin Towers? They didn’t know that the falling of those buildings, and their own deaths, would precipitate further violence. I think my sympathy vote would be equal.

I remember that day well. It was a beautiful day in my Canadian neck of the woods, and I had just turned on the TV to see that a plane had crashed into the first tower. After that I watched the whole morbid thing unfold. I was worried about my kids who were in school, and thought of pulling them out. It was irrational, but I began to fear for their safety. “What might be coming next?” was a prescient thought.

Almost all of the planes that were en route to the States were diverted to Canadian soil, and like in Britain, no one went wanting for a place to stay. Many Americans still return to Canada every year on the anniversary, as they made lasting friends during that time. George Bush gave a speech thanking every country for their help in America’s time of crisis; he probably even thank the people of Liliput, but nary a mention of Canada. You’d think that at least one of his speech writers would have caught that omission.

I’ve been to NYC a few times since then, and am going again in a couple of months, and it is still an exciting, fun place to visit.

Stephen

@sword wrote:

You began to fear… very poignant turn of phrase. The US government has done their job on you.

There was a slight twist of irony in my previous post.

Fair enough. It is sometimes hard to read irony on a message board.

Uhm, I don’t think the US government has done any kind of job on me, because I’m over the fear of the day. The hysteria that now grips America is shocking, and has led to an abrogation of, what should be, basic human rights…like freedom of speech. We won’t even get into Guantanmo.

Stephen