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[jawnbc]

It was a horrible day, perpetrated by horrible people. And wholly undeserved.

But it's been soiled by people who've used it for political capital, at the expense of thousands of innocent lives.

Yet it remains one of the most horrible days of my life, one which wholly obliterated any remnants of my childlike self.

And I am even more convinced that the remedies are democracy, justice, and education. Especially for girls and women.

Ignorance, and its bastard children ideologies of theocracy and hegemony, are the problem.

Comments

[bear-left.livejournal.com]

Amen to all of that!

[bearfinch.livejournal.com]

Ignorance and fear, I think, are both the problem.

[bix02138.livejournal.com]

well said, as always.

And I am even more convinced that the remedies are democracy, justice, and education.
i'd add only that it seems political leaders in the united states should go to the re-education camps to learn civics. the political moves since 9/11—including the establishment of an american gulag—could have been in my ninth grade civics text's chapters on the u.s.s.r., and why we're not like them.

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Quite.

[otterpup.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to ask: but who did what on this anniversary? I'm in my classroom now and I don't have ready access to the media.

[jawnbc]

9/11 WTC and Pentagon attacks

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

damn straight.

[mikeybill.livejournal.com]

True - education and empowerment of women has the ability to change so much. It's essential.

[otterpup.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*
Okay, now that part I knew. I was afraid you were referring to a new thing that happened in reference to the 9/11 anniversary. WHEW

[slate-canada.livejournal.com]

After five years what a tragic waste of any gained international goodwill.