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CounterPunch
September
12, 2002
Give Me Shelter
from the Storm
by Ron Jacobs
September 11, 2002. I awoke this morning to a
dark, stormy Vermont. How appropriate, I thought, that today
would be like this. Not so much because of the dead a year ago,
but moreso because of those killed since those towers fell last
September and those almost certain to be killed in the near future.
I haven't turned my TV on for a week, just because I don't want
to become victim to the sentimentalist (or even worse, jingoist)
nonsense being turned out on this anniversary.
I was in New York last September 11th
just north of the Village and I can still see those towers collapsing
in front of the streetcorner crowd I found myself in that Tuesday
morning. I can still taste the acrid smoke of capital and those
who work for her as it filled my lungs at a gathering for peace
the next day in Washington Square Park. I can still remember
the joy at finally finding my friend after wondering if she was
dead, or killed at her job near the WTC. I can still remember
the overwhelming sense of sadness that engulfed my being when
I knew that the brutality I saw would be answered by more of
the same. So I don't need TV to remind me.
I watched my son go off to Boston for
college two weeks ago and I see his sister every day after her
second-grade school day. What kind of world have we made for
them? And what kind of world is being purposely unmade by the
men and women who have chosen to twist a desire for justice into
revenge and domination? I challenge those who think that war
on the world is going to make their lives safer to just look
at a child's face and notice the hope that lies there. Now multiply
that hope by the number of children all over the world. Then
remember-war doesn't bring hope, only sadness.
Tonight, Donald Rumsfeld's protege Kenneth
Adelman speaks at the University of Vermont. The title of his
speech, which is sponsored by the campus Young Republicans, is
"Bomb Iraq Now." Many students and townspeople who
disagree with this bloodthirsty call will be out in force to
challenge Mr. Adelman. Unfortunately, neither he nor his superiors
seem to care what we think. Perhaps that's because they will
feel no sadness from this war they wage. After all, it won't
be them or their relations who will die. Hell, they won't even
feel the effect of any economic pinch such an attack would bring.
No, instead they will profit from their undisguised drive for
world domination.
Ron Jacobs
lives in Burlington, VT. He can be reached at: rjacobs@zoo.uvm.edu
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September
11, 2002
Anis Shivani
How to
Survive in Ashcroft's America
Pierre Tristam
Abusing
the Sorrows of 9/11
David Krieger
Resisting
Bush's
"Relentless War"
Jerre Skog
9/11 One
Year Later:
Remember the Others, Too
Dave Marsh
Illegal
Music?
A Sampler's Delight
Norm Dixon
How the
Warmongers Have Exploited 9/11
September
7 / 8, 2002
Bill Christison
A
Year Later: It's Happening Here
Alexander
Cockburn
The
Tenth Crusade
Susan Davis
Mr. Ashcroft's
Neighborhood
Bruce Jackson
When
War Came Home
David Krieger
Looking
Back on September 11
Mike Leon
Bush and War
Peter Linebaugh
Levellers
and 9/11
William McDougal
September 11 One Year On:
That's Entertainment!
Riad Z. Abdelkarim
and Jason Erb
How American Muslims Really Responded
to 9/11
Jeffrey St.
Clair
The Trouble
with Normal
Tom Stephens
Rise Up...Dump Bush
September
6, 2002
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Stolen
Trust
Gale Norton, Indians and the Case of the Missing $10 Billion
September
5, 2002
Ben Tripp
Jesus vs.
George the Second
William Hughes
McKinney's
Defeat:
Undue Meddling
Gavin Keeney
Beaux
Reves, Citoyens!
Wayne Saunders
War
Begins; Nobody Notices
Irit Katriel
Drunk
with Power:
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Threat"
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