U.S. Commemorates 9/11 By Toasting Stable Afghan Government From Top Of Freedom Tower
September 12, 2011 | ISSUE 47•37
NEW YORK—In a moving and beautiful ceremony held atop Lower Manhattan’s gleaming, 120-story-tall Freedom Tower, the nation commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by raising a glass to the stable democracy of Afghanistan and to a decade of unprecedented peace and prosperity across the globe.
As a brilliant cascade of red, white, and blue fireworks lit up the skyscraper’s observation deck, those in attendance reflected on the horrible tragedy that improbably, and stirringly, gave way to a harmonized Middle East and one of the most triumphant and fruitful eras in the history of the great American republic.
“A decade ago, 3,000 of our citizens perished in a senseless attack on American soil, and as I stand here today atop this magnificent edifice, celebrating the thriving republic of Afghanistan and all our allies in the now wholly stable Muslim world, it’s clear the U.S. has not only risen from the ashes, it has flourished,” said former U.S. president and master of ceremonies George W. Bush, who was widely applauded after 9/11 for respecting the rights of citizens at home and abroad while combating terrorism through largely peaceful means. “These last 10 years could have been divisive, turbulent, sad, hopeless, and grotesque. But instead, they were the exact opposite of those things. And for that we must all feel both blessed and truly proud.”
Afghanistan, which has served as a beacon of harmony and progress in the Middle East ever since the U.S. military’s brief intervention in 2001.
“May we always know a tranquility as real and lasting as this!” added Bush, raising his glass high as the families of 9/11 victims and various Muslims from around the world held hands in a swaying circle around him. “To us! To all of us!”
The Freedom Tower’s annual 9/11 ceremony, which has taken place every year since the architectural masterpiece’s swift completion in 2004, was founded to honor the victims of the terrorist act committed by al-Qaeda, a militant Islamist group that was eradicated following the swift capture of their leader, Osama bin Laden, three months after Sept. 11, 2001.
As always, members of the multiple mosques nearby were welcomed to the ceremony with open arms, and Afghan foreign-exchange students arrived bearing gifts of flowers from their grateful nation, a reminder to many in attendance that the course of history after that crucial day could have taken a drastically different turn.
“It’s truly scary to think of all the myriad ways we, as a nation, could have gone astray in the months and years following 9/11,” said retired Gen. Tommy Franks, on hand to look back on his revered role in America’s successful half-year intervention in Afghanistan. “But fortunately, we concentrated our efforts not on swaggering aggression, fear-stoking, preemptive strikes, or an overinvestment in defense, but on restoring our reputation around the globe, fostering good relations with Muslims, and keeping our economy strong and robust.”
“Of course, the tragedy of 9/11 could have been avoided entirely if there had been any warnings whatsoever from the intelligence community that such a thing was going to happen,” Franks added. “Unfortunately, as we later learned, there were none.”
In attendance at the tasteful ceremony were hundreds of U.S. service members currently stationed at home awaiting orders of any imminent threats, respectful and nonpartisan members of the national news media, and trusted foreign allies such as Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, the second female president of Afghanistan, Malalai Joya, and Iranian president Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who retired quietly from the political scene in 2002, was also on hand, opting as always not to give a speech, saying that such a gesture would be “a selfish exploitation of the events of that tragic day.”
Following the last of many toasts, attendees gathered in the Freedom Tower’s Dick Cheney Memorial Auditorium to watch journalist Daniel Pearl’s special retrospective on the successful 2002 prosecution of all known terror suspects through fair and legal trials. Former president Bush concluded the ceremony with a few short words.
“To think, what could have been merely a grim, pathetic reminder of our own pain and subsequent failure has instead been reclaimed by this great nation as a reminder of our success, our resiliency, and our core American values of decency and love,” said Bush, who departed later that night for a climate change conference in China. “Thank God we had the courage, intelligence, and foresight to react the way we did after the worst day in American history.”
“And thank God we didn’t make a huge mistake by needlessly invading a country like Iraq,” Bush added. “If we had, I guarantee you none of us would be standing here today.”
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
Ha ha, this piece is obviously from the onion or taki-mag, very funny.
But nothing is funnier that the totally oxymoronic phrase “Stable Middle East”.
Or more sad.
(Actually having all these guys gathered together on the top of an iconic site like a “Freedom Towers ” must be a Taliban jihadist’s wet dream. Ahh, opportunities, opportunities….)
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16th September 2011 at 9:37 am
Stucky says:
Fuckin’ hilarious.
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Not so hilarious below. Seriously, I honestly believe I’d rather live in Afghanistan than England. Afghan is a Poppy State. England is the ultimate Nanny State.
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3-Year-Olds Branded “Racist,” “Homophobic” Put In Government Database
Kids’ future careers jeopardized by committing hate crime of saying the word “gay”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Over 30,000 British schoolchildren, some as young as three, have had their names registered on a government database and branded “racist” or “homophobic” for using playground insults, infractions that could impact their future careers.
The shocking figures were disclosed after civil liberties group the Manifesto Club made a Freedom of Information Act request which betrayed the fact that kids who used petty jibes are now being treated as thought criminals by education authorities.
34,000 incidents of “racism” in total were reported for the year 2009-2010, with nursery school toddlers as young as three being put on a state database for using the words “gay” and “lesbian”. One child who called another “broccoli head” was also reported to authorities. Other cases included a child who used the word “gaylord,” while another who told a teacher “this work is gay,” was also added to the thought crime database.
The majority of the reported cases involved primary school children.
“The record can be passed from primaries to secondaries or when a pupil moves between schools,” reports the Daily Mail.
“And if schools are asked for a pupil reference by a future employer or a university, the record could be used as the basis for it, meaning the pettiest of incidents has the potential to blight a child for life.”
Schools are being pressured to report such incidents to authorities and face punishments for not doing so under anti-bullying policies.
This is a clear example of how hate crime laws have brazenly been hijacked by the state to get children institutionalized on criminal databases at an early age. This is about the state dictating what your child can think and say – it’s the thought police on steroids.
Orwell talked about the state reducing language via Newspeak in his book 1984. By eliminating the very words that come out of children’s mouths and punishing them for thinking certain thoughts, all critical thinking is ultimately abolished, and Big Brother assumes the supreme power to dictate reality – a dictatorship over our very minds.
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16th September 2011 at 10:02 am
AWD says:
I wonder what’s in the databases for Stucky….
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16th September 2011 at 11:15 am
tbone says:
more prophetic than funny, and it was funny
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16th September 2011 at 12:15 pm
TeresaE says:
OMG Stuck, that is so fucking GAY!
Unbelievable, well not really, not anymore.
I’d worry about those toddlers future chances at work and a regular life IF the obvious writing wasn’t already on the wall.
In twenty years those kids are going to be lucky to be getting a hot meal a day, I doubt they will have much fear of some defunct, probably run out of money, database.
We all seem to forget the UK is not much behind the US or Japan in the debt game.
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16th September 2011 at 12:16 pm
Bill S says:
“In a moving and beautiful ceremony held atop Lower Manhattan’s gleaming, 120-story-tall Freedom Tower, the nation commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by raising a glass to the stable democracy of Afghanistan and to a decade of unprecedented peace and prosperity across the globe.”
Uhhhhh, I don’t think they were toasting stable democarcy in Afganistan—-they were toasting the succesful handover of the “looter in chief” from Bush to Obama for a job well done in continuing the looting of America’s wealth from the working man to the Bankers and Military Industrial Complex.
The whole purpose of the “puppet master in chief” is to oversea the looting and impoverishment of America by the banking elite, and I don’t think anybody will argue that Clinton, Bush, and Obama have all done a stellar job carrying out the operational plan put in place by Rubin and the other Clinton thugs when the banking elite decided to crank the looting of Ameria into high gear.
Job well done—–America is almost completely destroyed and we (the elites) have all the wealth—toast!
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16th September 2011 at 5:59 pm