An attempt to forestall any further political fallout until after November. No one will comment on the appopriateness of these inscriptions, I’m sure, claiming they must “wait until the review is completed.” Tom Smith, Chairman of the commission whi…

(And you’re absolutely correct: this particular mooonbat “ray zone” is pronounced “detra”, as in “detra-mental”… ;-)

Something eloquent to commemorate their loopy, lurid and laughable leanings since 9/11 -some of which have obviously infiltrated this AZ site, but the general good would be better-served by sequestering them all on one, big Multicultural Monument.

THE WHY DO THEY HATE US? MEMORIAL

Using selected quotes from politcos (’Turban’ Durbin, Teddy Kennedy, Howie Dean, etc.) , ‘artists’, musicians, film-makers, writers, ad absurdum, to spatter the surfaces of the soapstone site (a very soft stone material that will wear away to beneovolent blankness relatively quickly).

Things of the caliber of:

“THE GUARDS AT GITMO ARE BEHAVING LIKE THE TORTURERS UNDER POL POT OR THE NAZIS”

“THE WTC TOWERS WERE BROUGHT DOWN BY CIA-PLANTED EXPLOSIVE ‘SQUIB’ CHARGES”

“OSAMA BIN LADEN AND AL-QAEDA COULD BE SEEN TO BE LIKE GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS”

“BUSH LIED; PEOPLE DIED”

“WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER”

“LITTLE EICHMANNS”

“NO BLOOD FOR OIL”

Let them implode under the weight of their own venal hyperbole, puling paranoia, god-damned gullibility, simpering self-loathing, tin-hat spews and supreme sucker-dom.

tHE mONUMENT Composed entirely of aluminum BATS, glued together with clear epoxy, to form a gigantic MOON.

And a black soapstone “moon shadow” base, as the glossy surface for their shallow inscriptions.

The moron formerly-known as “Cat Stevens” could inaugurate the Site via video hook-up, since he isn’t allowed into the U.S.

And a flock of bats, painted white (for peace) could be released at dusk as everyone attending sang:

“Don’t Worry, Be Happy”.

Then a high school band, from Berkeley, leading everyone away to strains from Mozart’s “Der Fleidermaus”.

IMHO part of the “root cause” – aside from BDS – is the ease and facility with which leftists try to speak and think for the public and in the name of the public: that’s “just what they do.”, their ray zone detra. What disturbs me the most is not the travesty itself, but the belief by this group that they could & should put this travesty together at all, thinking what they were doing was “normal” or even something to be respected and admired.

That is their mind exactly. The masses are unable to think about anything but their sex, beer, and entertainment. Leftist/Liberals, as their betters, are allowed, and in fact, required to think for them and let them know what is and is not approved thinking.

You are a counterrevolutionary if you believe otherwise and increasingly are thought of as vermin to eliminate. “What’s one hundred million murdered by leftism in the last century? A good start!” That’s their thinking and they will stick to it until the crescent dagger is dragged across their throats.

Rarely do I touch on regional issues, even in my own state of Illinois. However the kids have been grousing about the Sept. 11th Memorial here in Arizona. I’ve seen the pictures of the memorial, and you can, too here (including photos of the inscrip…

Take this humorously. You wrote “their ray zone detra” and I thought for a bit that they’re having an enlightening “ray zone” of some sort :) Then I realized that you meant raison d’etre, their reason or justification for being or existence. We can still hope for those rays, though…

The biggest problems I see with the memorial, and the process used to create it, are: (1) no understanding of scope whatsoever and (2) attempted hijacking of the public’s collective brain, in trying to think for them.

Politics are definitely intertwined here, but even if all “political” quotes were expunged (”Are you happy now?”), the memorial would still be a travesty. That is because some of the phrases aren’t expressly political but are still inappropriate as hell for a memorial: “10 08 01 White House office of Homeland Security created”? “09 21 01 Federal Victim compensation fund created”?

Phrases like this, as with “multiple funerals in a day” (when haven’t there been multiple funerals in a day?), are banalities so unsuited to any memorial that purports to commemorate the event itself that those who dreamed this up must either have no concept of Western civilization or basic human decency, or else want to redefine the concept of a “memorial” to something else entirely. What else explains the idea behind commemorating a string of data points other than 9/11? The ratio of 9/11 to non-9/11 phrases on this so-called memorial – to the extent that we need phrases at all – is appalling.

Then the quasi-political: “Feeling of invincibility lost”? Says who (that I felt the United States was invincible to begin with, that is)? What an arrogant thing to say. It claims to speak for us, for all of us, in a matter-of-fact way when it can’t possibly. Of course those who wrote it know this, but apparently they believe that’s the way we should have felt, or feel; and the way our actions in the world should have been interpreted: “what else explains how we babykillers behaved in the years/months/days leading up to 9/11, if we didn’t feel ourselves to be invincible?”

Such people are totally at ease with telling us not only what to do but how to feel; those are noxious traits that are not supposed to find root here in the United States. Yet we’re watching a subculture try to accomplish just that before our very eyes. And they’re using 9/11 to do it.

And they have the nerve to claim George Bush “hijacked” 9/11?

The entire wordplay has a ring of naive pomposity that only a clueless and self-deluded individual can muster with a straight face, thinking they are being profound when all they’re really being is embarrassing to the adults around them. (Like me right now ;-)

IMHO part of the “root cause” – aside from BDS – is the ease and facility with which leftists try to speak and think for the public and in the name of the public: that’s “just what they do.”, their ray zone detra. What disturbs me the most is not the travesty itself, but the belief by this group that they could & should put this travesty together at all, thinking what they were doing was “normal” or even something to be respected and admired.

Did it occur to any of these genuises that such drivel, political or not, is simply not in the scope of a memorial (at least those created by societies I’m familiar with), has never been in the scope of a memorial, and will never be in the scope of a memorial, lest we forget our humanity and hurl ourselves toward insanity? That’s a question I’d like to see answered before too much more time ticks by.

Not so quick. Chances are that in the end they might, you know, just happen to remove those inscriptions which could be misconstrued as being too pro-Bush.

I’d have no real problem with that. I’d prefer to simply remember what happened. In 50 years, the politics of the whole thing will have faded, but the event will still cause strong feelings.

VIOLENT ACTS LEADING
US TO WAR
05 07 1915, 12 07 1941,
08 04 1964 & 09 11 2001

Chances are that in the end they might, you know, just happen to remove those inscriptions which could be misconstrued as being too pro-Bush.

I must have missed those.

If you are basing your explanation on the definition of memorial, your argument lacks substance.

How dare you try to use the definition of a memorial in an argument about the composition of a memorial! Hmph.

GregH, you’re a laugh riot! Thought it’s the “at” variety, as opposed to the “with”.

normally, a memorial honors those who died

Why, it certainly does great honor to the terrorists who died. And no, I don’t think that a memorial in AZ should be “neutral”. It should be explicitly pro-American, and it should make it abundantly clear that the US is a much better place than, uhm, 98% of this planet’s surface.

Former state Sen. Tom Smith, chairman of the Legislative Governmental Mall Commission, also said the commission hadn’t made it a practice to review the wording of any memorials. “We sure as heck will do it in the future,” he told The Associated Press in an interview…

Better late than never, but I don’t see them being able to correct those laser cut inscriptions easily. I guess they can get a few bucks for it as scrap metal.

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