NUBIAN KNIGHTS NETWORK: It's About Time We Forgot 9/11... By Wise Senator (An EXCERPT)

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

It's About Time We Forgot 9/11...
By Wise Senator (An EXCERPT)

It's About Time We Forgot 9/11...
by Wise Senator (EXCERPT)

No, I’m not kidding. Nor am I trying to be provocative. We need to forget about September 11, 2001.

I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of seeing those planes hit the Twin Towers, year after year after year.

In ten years, “remembering” 9/11 has produced two wars, massive debt, national paranoia, Islamophobia, legislative fiat to violate our civil liberties, and media hysterics. “Remembering” 9/11 isn’t about honoring those innocent lives that perished; it’s about flexing our emotionally and politically reactionary muscles. It’s about maintaining the pain.

Our media and elected officials have used this “remembrance” in order to manipulate our heart-strings and exploit our fear. We can not allow them to continue to profit from our grief. It is time to forget 9/11.

We don’t need to “remember” a tragedy in order to take care of business. For years it’s been argued that keeping 9/11 in mind should be a fundamental element of our foreign policy. As a result, we’ve heavily invested in wars overseas which at first seemed to give the American people an emotional fix, but quickly descended into full-blown affliction. The war rationale is now as transparent as Plexiglass.

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