Comments on: Hating to hate

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:23:09 +0000

I in no way meant to compare the attacks of 9/11 to the election in Florida. Anyone that got that message missed my point. My point was to say that the author criticized other’s opinions on what happened in a certain geographic location when they don’t live in that region. Then that same person accuses those in Florida of rigging the election when in fact, she wasn’t there and doesn’t know. I didn’t mean in anyway to undermine the events on 9/11 in that way and if people took that out of context then I apologize. I certainly meant no offense. I didn’t meant to fuel any kind of hatred and I certainly didn’t mean to insult anyone.

By: The Rogue Angel

The Rogue Angel — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:22:58 +0000

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By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:42:28 +0000

Pia, your posts are incredible.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:54:26 +0000

Great post pia. Way to defeat the troll.

PS – It looks like we all found our way here via Marie!

By: Iki

Iki — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:03:53 +0000

I’m with Marie… stunning. (I found you via her blog.) Thanks for posting it.

(And if Robert is my brother, I’m going to kick his ass.)

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:02:58 +0000

We’re “liberating a nation”? Well, Robert, from what I see of our government, it’s fine to “liberate” Iraq and give them civil liberties. Meanwhile the same government takes away our civil liberties in the name of “security”. Are the “majority” fully aware of that?
It’s highly ironic to me that the Shrub and his followers are attempting to install “Christian” government in this country while they are on the watch for the rise of Islamic based governments in Iraq. Gotta protect them from Islam while they force their beliefs on us. Sounds more like AlCaida than the Founding Fathers to me…….

By: marie b.

marie b. — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:43:38 +0000

stunning post.

i remember watching the towers fall – we were in our first biology class at an american college, and the teachers ran to the lounge to watch it. i followed, and we held hands and cried.

every time i think about it, i still cry. and every time someone like Robert takes any facet of the event and uses it to fuel hatred and lies, a little bit of my faith in humanity fades.

By: The Cranky Liberal

The Cranky Liberal — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:47:14 +0000

Robert

Good point. Almost. Well not really. You see, to compare the impact of 9/11 and the Florida elections is to comapre apples ot oranges. Watching the events unfurl in Florida that year was something that didn’t require actualy being in the state – it was a nose story without a personal level of involvement on any bu thtemost absract of layers. I know – I live here. I lived here then. I live here now. I am acutely aware of the chicanery of Jeb and Katherine Harris. I am also aware that in an independent recount by several news organizations, if the whole state had been recounted Gore wins. These are Tribune papers, and for the record supported Bush in the 2000 election.

I also remember watching the TV the moment the Towers crumbled and it was sureal. It was infuriating and devastating. But it was not the same as being there. I can’t imagine on a concrete level what it is like to know people who had to run for the lives to escape death, or to lose a loved on in the tragedy. I can’t really understand what it is like to look at a huge pit in the earth where once stood a monument to mans greatness. It isn’t real to me the same way.

When you read the paper and see someones child died tragicaly you feel very sad.

When your the father – your devastated.

Thats the difference here.

FLorida doesn’t even register on the same radar as that.

By: pia

pia — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:39:14 +0000

To say that I even suggested “we had it coming” is ludicrious, and very wrong.

I can say that you don’t understand 9/11 the way we do because buildings exploded, people lost their lives and the city was paralyzed.

No I was not in Florida; but to compare the aftershocks of an attack to the aftershocks of an election is absurd.
Nobody save a few people knows what really happened in Florida.

To suggest that I could think “we had it coming to us,” is beyond sick.

I can’t comprehend people wanting to attack and destroy as the terrorists did.

That you can, Robert, says more about you.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:21:34 +0000

I see the typical leftist rhetoric here. “Bush stole the election in Florida” and the great “a dictator we trained and armed!” Give me a break. You claim that other Americans can’t relate to the events of 9/11 as well as you because you live in NYC. I would have to agree with you on that. By that same right, you don’t know and can’t relate to what occurred in Florida in 2000. You can speculate all day long, but you don’t know–period. To think there is some “secret conspiracy” to elect Bush or that “we had it coming to us” because we were attacked are both absolutely ludicrous. You can sit all day long and present inaccurate rhetoric a la Ward Churchill or you can open your eyes to the truth. The majority wanted Bush elected. The majority in this nation want a conservative in the White House. The majority approve of what we’ve done in Iraq and the progress we’ve made there in liberating that nation.