The Mirror of 9-11

Do you realize that 9-11 memorializes not only the date of the hijacked aircrafts' collision with the towers of the WTC and a harrowing reversal on American foriegn policy and human rights, but it's also the date at wheich we all fell into George W. Bush's looking glass?

From January of 2001 until September, ABC -- Anything But Clinton -- had been the watchword in the Bush White House. If Clinton had taken an interest in supporting and of his Public Trust responsiblities, it was the conviction of the Bushies to contravene those efforts, from the threat of foreign terrorist (Obama) to FEMA and the appointment of responsible officers to the agency (Katrina) or the dispensation of contracts to drill on Federal land (MMS), the Bushies have lead the charge in the EXACT oppisite directions that the Clintons went during their administration.

If Left was wrong and Right were correct, then the 'enhanced' political freedoms that we enjoyed before the TRasportation Security Agency forced us to take off our shoes before boarding planes and disavowed us of our nail-clippers, if freedom from unwarranted searches and the rest of the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution were too much for you, then you can sleep comfortably with the idea that we've lived in the/a world that George W. neither understood or acknoledged before it became the cornerstone of Constitution-shredding Republic on September 12, 2001.

Since 9/11/2001, we've lived in the mirror universe of the 56 years that preceded Bush 43's tenure (yes, that's a Trek reference). Teddy Roosevelt's concern for the Interior and Richard Nixon's EPA suddenly became politicized hotbed, just as NASA and Justice saw their missions adjusted to serve goals other than those they were established to uphold. 'We the People' is an oxymoron after 7 years of top-down bullying, harrassment and non-FISA snooping.

How is it that hope, rule of law and a billion-dallar surplus have been transformed into widespread political tumult and a 3 trillion dollar deficit and widespread American unemployment?

Just something to think about, a month or so that afternoon in August of 2001 in Craford, when Bush, Cheney and Rice chose to circular-file all of those memos aBin Laden's determiniation to stage a spectaular event in the skies over New York City.