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Sep. 11th, 2003 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingJeezus! Can you people stop posting? 300 posts is far too many for one day. I know I normally bitch about not having enough to read, but I'd planned on doing more this evening than catching up on my friends list. And I skimmed. Dammit, I only had an hour and a half!
Where has QueerasJohn gone?? I thought he was keeping his old username... Woe, I tell you, WOE. I really hope he undeletes it soon.
I have no emotional connexion to September 11. I mark this here because I have been hearing about it all day. Do you know what happened on September 11 30 years ago? Pinochet took over Chile with the help of the military. An estimated 3,000 people were killed or "disappeared" because of that regime. That's something we should all think about. (Yes, I listen to Triple J. This is the only reason why I know this.) This event is now unrecognised, because of one act of terror against a nation that previously thought itself invulnerable. Whose government actually supported and encouraged Pinochet's takeover. And by the way, I didn't even feel particularly emotionally connected to the "Bali bombings", where Australians actually died. The self-righteous bleatings of White Men In Power doesn't help me connect to the dramatic impact of these events, and I still maintain that worse tragedies are happening all over the world, any day of the week. The US has facilitated this with their invasion of Iraq, but even before that...
Think famine relief posters of small children with malnutrition-fed pot bellies, with flies feeding off their sweat.
Think of people under oppressive regimes where having a blog and speaking your opinion of your government and country could get you killed, and your family murdered.
Think of women abused by their husbands. Think husbands abused by their wives (which happens, although it's likely to get ignored). Think four year old girls and boys never learning to trust because everytime they're babysat by their uncle, he hurts them and touches them in private places.
I understand your own personal pain, and the fact that this tragedy is important to you, but please THINK. If you were thinking, you'd know that September 11 was inevitable with America's "Big Brother" foreign policy. Do something about it. Write to your congressman (or -woman). Run for government. Campaign. If all that's a bit too much, for deity's sake VOTE. Australia's voting may be compulsory, but I signed up at 17 in preparation. I couldn't wait to have my voice heard, even if it was lost amidst the rabble voting for the Liberals and National Party members.
Hmm. That's a whole lot of post for an event whose significance in my mind more in America's violent reaction/retaliation than anything else. I'm getting jaded. (Getting?)
Misty, Nat and Sara came over tonight, and we worked on putting our notebooks together. It took ages (as I'd suspected), and we got very little done. Much fun, though. I cut out the covers, and covered the back one. That was it. Ah, well.
Only one more day left at Current Job. I hope I can stay awake... I spent most of today needing matchsticks.
Where has QueerasJohn gone?? I thought he was keeping his old username... Woe, I tell you, WOE. I really hope he undeletes it soon.
I have no emotional connexion to September 11. I mark this here because I have been hearing about it all day. Do you know what happened on September 11 30 years ago? Pinochet took over Chile with the help of the military. An estimated 3,000 people were killed or "disappeared" because of that regime. That's something we should all think about. (Yes, I listen to Triple J. This is the only reason why I know this.) This event is now unrecognised, because of one act of terror against a nation that previously thought itself invulnerable. Whose government actually supported and encouraged Pinochet's takeover. And by the way, I didn't even feel particularly emotionally connected to the "Bali bombings", where Australians actually died. The self-righteous bleatings of White Men In Power doesn't help me connect to the dramatic impact of these events, and I still maintain that worse tragedies are happening all over the world, any day of the week. The US has facilitated this with their invasion of Iraq, but even before that...
Think famine relief posters of small children with malnutrition-fed pot bellies, with flies feeding off their sweat.
Think of people under oppressive regimes where having a blog and speaking your opinion of your government and country could get you killed, and your family murdered.
Think of women abused by their husbands. Think husbands abused by their wives (which happens, although it's likely to get ignored). Think four year old girls and boys never learning to trust because everytime they're babysat by their uncle, he hurts them and touches them in private places.
I understand your own personal pain, and the fact that this tragedy is important to you, but please THINK. If you were thinking, you'd know that September 11 was inevitable with America's "Big Brother" foreign policy. Do something about it. Write to your congressman (or -woman). Run for government. Campaign. If all that's a bit too much, for deity's sake VOTE. Australia's voting may be compulsory, but I signed up at 17 in preparation. I couldn't wait to have my voice heard, even if it was lost amidst the rabble voting for the Liberals and National Party members.
Hmm. That's a whole lot of post for an event whose significance in my mind more in America's violent reaction/retaliation than anything else. I'm getting jaded. (Getting?)
Misty, Nat and Sara came over tonight, and we worked on putting our notebooks together. It took ages (as I'd suspected), and we got very little done. Much fun, though. I cut out the covers, and covered the back one. That was it. Ah, well.
Only one more day left at Current Job. I hope I can stay awake... I spent most of today needing matchsticks.
