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Opening my Sunday comics this morning I see half are not-funny 9/11 memorials. Half of media commentary also seems on 9/11, and is largely uninformative.
In the decade since 9/11 over half a billion people have died worldwide. A great many choices could have delayed such deaths, including personal choices to smoke less or exercise more, and collective choices like allowing more immigration. And cryonics might have saved most of them.
Yet, to show solidarity with these three thousand victims, we have pissed away three trillion dollars ($1 billion per victim), and trashed long-standing legal principles. And now we’ll waste a day remembering them, instead of thinking seriously about how to save billions of others. I would rather we just forgot 9/11.
Do I sound insensitive? If so, good — 9/11 deaths were less than one part in a hundred thousand of deaths since then, and don’t deserve to be sensed much more than that fraction. If your feelings say otherwise, that just shows how full fricking far your mind has gone.
Added: Similar views here.
Forget 9/11
We should NEVER forget 9-11 because its not the beginning, but only one event in a series of events to come with the main goals having to do with creating widespread panic forcing us to voluntarily sign our rights and most importantly our rights to possess guns away from us! These mass killings with guns, cars, bombs, trucks,vans, etc... are all related! Some are "PATSY" crimes, and some are "mind control" crimes. I know what your thinking about me now, but thats what "they" want you to think about anyone who sees between the lines (lies). People have lost the ability to think for themselves, to look at the evidence, analyze the evidence, analyze what someone else has told you about the evidence, the use of common sense, to distinguish between what is impossible and possible, the laws of physics, and most importantly the LACK of evidence that is suppose to be there but mysteriously ISN'T! Wake up people, PLEASE! These horrific events are so BLATANT and seem to be planned by 6 year olds, yet so easily sold to us without hardly anyone saying how ridiculous the "official" stories are! This crap just repeats itself over and over again. Most people are of the mind set of, "I JUST WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!" If we as a people don't stand up and say enough is enough, what kind of a world are our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and so on going to have to deal with? Its going to suck! N E HOO!
By the way, since Robin is the master of "X is not about Y," it's fairly astonishing that he's unaware that 9/11 is not about 3000 deaths.