Sad, really...

[zesty_pinto]

Another day, another grave robbery.

This is why I can't take 9/11 so seriously; if there aren't people acting melodramatic about the affair just to make themselves look better, there are people out there just wanting to stuff their own pockets with money from the dead. I swear, this is becoming less of a time of sympathy and more of an ugly custody battle for inheritance. I feel like Jonson's "Volpone" should pop out of somewhere just to steal from these thieves or something, just because I know at least Volpone would lose in the end of several acts (then again, perhaps that is just what Bush is?).

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[samunderani.livejournal.com]

i know of no words to adequately express my disgust.

[armareum.livejournal.com]

well, BBC News 24 said that the reason that they decided to sue was that the statute of limitations says that the lawsuit must be brought within 3 years. and so they just got inside the deadline, incase any evidence comes up, not to actually start proceedings.

Did that make sense? I'm not sure I wrote that very well.

[zesty-pinto.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I understand what you're saying, but even with the passing time or not, I still get annoyed at how the entire tragedy of a mass death is celebrated with ballads of patriotism and people making money hawking objects symbolizing their death and no one really realizes it because they're too caught up with how this is the "first attack on US soil" and their own insecurities from it.

I guess I'm strange since this is how I felt even back in 2001 when I saw people hawking flags on the street and the thought of Israel-Palestine was still in my head at the time. I can't see Palestinians or Israelis selling little men that blow up or something to that effect and yet it happens here and there are people who buy it up without a single reality of the irony in it.

[armareum.livejournal.com]

because they are told that that is what you do if you are patriotic, and if you don't then you are an American-hating communist with al queda sympathies.

i remember my american girlfriend at the time remarking that the American flag was on everything. everything was themed red white and blue. she got rather sick of it really.

and personally, of all the flags in the world, the only one which elicits an emotion from me is the American Flag. I can't bear to see it. I hate the was it is adorned on things as a symbol of possession. And it makes me wonder how strong these feelings are in people who have been wrongs by USA foriegn policy...

[silvermoonelf.livejournal.com]

*is just cofused but what is new* it's me sweetblood..