Terror Generation's Moment in Time

Created by an 8 yr old to represent 9/11

Recent events have me spending much time “defending” the position of others then I’m usual accustomed too. Osama Bin Laden’s dead. And wait what’s this? People are HAPPY about it?!?!?! Wow I would never in my wildest dreams imagine that a man who killed thousands of innocent folk in the coldest of blood would fire up the souls of his victims loved ones. How dare they rejoice in his death…..those heartless monsters!! They should be like us and question and doubt and conspire in the face of all facts and sound logic!!

OSAMA WE MISS YOU!!!!!!!!

Ok enough with the sarcasm. If you can bring yourself to speak on how intelligent, conscious, enlightened and mature that you are then part of that requires you to be able to see view points that may run in opposition to yours. Yes there are a few overly excited hill billy USA good ol’ boys that don’t like any “A-rabs” or “Muzlams” regardless of what they’re about. But that is not what brought people to the gates of the capital or the streets of Gotham surrounding Ground Zero. Think back a bit... 

Those of my age group were young adults when 9/11 took place. Ideas of who we are and what we stood for were pretty well advanced. America is not the perfect paradise you would be brought up to believe. So even as fear, disbelief and concern over took us, we still had our previously established core beliefs about the world and this nation’s  true place in it. That is why WE were not celebrating in that manner. The bigger picture doesn’t escape us thus making more for questions and doubt. Ok that’s fine, so let look at the majority group of those we are seeing in the streets expressing this “joy over death”…..

The college kids you see climbing lamp poles and chanting USA, they’re crazy right? Delusional brain washed sheep huh? Do your homework and pay attention to what they were raised on. For us the purest embodiments of evil were dead. Hitler was the meanest of the mean. His tales only struck us there Learning Channel specials and WW2 movies. It was a decent memory that we couldn't relate too. We feared rouge cops more then terrorists. But for these kids it was different. The drunken college guy we saw Sunday night was 8,9,10 maybe 11 yrs old when the towers came down. Chances are they loss someone or directly knew someone that loss someone that day. The difference between us and them is that at 9 yrs old what do you know of the world? These were kids who were now ushered into a new world yet their previous memories are so short that to them there was no world before terrorism. The war on terror has defined their lives. Their "Boogie Man" was real, alive and still looking to kill them. They saw a man with a mission and followers dedicated to carrying it out bring the force of Hell to the center of the world. Then they saw it replayed again and again via the power of the media and the growing Internets.

Understand, the differences in demographics here, we were younger yet established in central beliefs, they were young impressionable and unlike those that were younger then them and completely incapable of understandable what was happening (like my 3 ½ yr old cuz) they had to deal with this. So to them and millions like them Evil = Osama. And to10 yrs later see that taken down deserved if not for a few days, some celebration.

But if you conspiracy lovers still need something to chat about here's this.