9/11

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On 9/11, Al Qaida caused some three thousand people to die in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 

But the harm it did on that day was almost trivial compared to the harm America went on to do to itself.   The reaction to 9/11 changed the country for the worse – in countless ways.  The process continues to this day, some thirteen years on.

Something our leaders, media and masses tend to overlook. The dead and disabled. The mental scars. The billions of dollars wasted, spent on military equipment that could have built us a better future. The trickle down of that equipment effectively militarizing the police. The general war mentality that I believe fuels our current gun craze. The loss of civil liberties. The NSA spying on us and the world. The fanning of the flames of hatred in the US of all things not White-Middle-class-Umurica. The creation of a generation of Muslims who will "hate us for our freedoms" because we bombed the hell out of them, killed their parents, burnt their cities, destroyed their world. The list can go on but all of it, every bit, is on us. A collective freak-out that will have repercussions for generations.

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