Well friends, it has indeed been a while since I have had time to blog. But I’m back, just in time to bring a little truth to this lie known as “Patriot Day.”
In case you didn’t know, today, September 11, is “Patriot Day.” Originally it was called “National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims Of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001″ but I guess they thought “Patriot Day” had a more catchy name.
Although I agree that the thousands of victims of the September 11, 2001 incident including initial victims as well as first responders and victims of the Iraq occupation, should be honored, I think that proclaiming today “Patriot Day” is highly hypocritical.
REAL patriots are hard to come by these days. And the ones that exist are either shut up, locked up, or worse. “Loving your country” or “being a patriot” these days consists of approving of everything the powers that be decide they want to do, no matter how much you may disagree with it, or how damaging it may be to our country.
Seven years after September 11, 2001, we live in a country where journalists are being locked up for trying to report the news; where our laptops can be confiscated at the airport for no reason as we return from another country; and where our phone conversations have been monitored for years.
The irony of naming a day in honor of American patriots should be painfully obvious.
