Leave You Shaking Your Head.
The first concerns the Official Ceremony to be held this Sunday on the 10th Anniversary of this Terrorist Attack.
Mayor Bloomberg, the esteemed (?) Mayor of New York, in his wisdom, has declared that God not be present at this Ceremony, nor any of the "First Responders" - you know, the true heroes of that day 10 short years ago - the Police and the Fire Fighters.
The occupants of the Twin Towers did not have a choice in meeting their fate, but the first responders went in knowing that in all likelihood they would never come out. Hundreds from their ranks died that day and to me they are the true heroes.
Symbolically, under the current circumstances, is the fact that the First Responder to die that day was Father Mychal Judge - a Fire Department Chaplain. Had he lived, he would have been denied status at Sunday's Memorial for two reasons then - first he was only a Responder and second because, he was a disciple of God. Imagine.
What happens to individuals like Bloomberg when they come into a little power?
The US was built on Judeo / Christian Foundations and yet today it is under attack throughout the world. These foundations made us the Great the Nations we have become and will, with its crumbling, see us actively decline. Indeed, that decline is most evident everywhere.
Bloomberg then is one of the agents of this decline.
Thankfully, other ceremonies are planned this Sunday in competition with the "Official Ceremony" where God and First Responders are invited. I fully expect that the turn out at the 'Unofficial' Remembrances will be larger - indeed much larger than Bloomberg's. Nothing would please me more than to see Bloomberg at a microphone on Sunday speaking to a people-less crowd.
The question has been posed as to whether or not this should be the last anniversary of 9/11 and I am in agreement. I think the time has come for us all to move on from those day's events. I am opposed though to one of the reasons consistently given for ceasing further remembrances and that relates to the belief, on the part of some, that this was a victory for Al Quaeda and that further remembrances only fuels their glee.
In my mind it was not a victory. To kill innocent civilians is murder of the most evil kind; victory belongs to the winner of competing armies. Cowardly killers like Al Quaeda on 9/11 deserve only our disdain.
The second story takes place right here in Canada and concerns our own Prime Minister.
This week Harper, when interviewed by CBC's Peter Mansbridge, allowed the greatest fear on the part of our Intelligence Services since 9/11 continues to be the dangers posed by Islamists.
Like the ones that blew up the Twin Towers and have exploded killer bombs across Europe and Africa.
Well you'd have thought he had disparaged the CBC itself.
Both Opposition Leaders - Turmel and Rae quickly came out to condemn Harper for his 'divisive' language - scolding him for using the term "Islamists". This despite the fact that they are the ones in 99 out of 100 cases, behind these cowardly attacks and despite the fact that he was only saying what was occupying the attention of our Security Forces.
What planet do these two live on? It is hard to imagine that anyone living on Earth since 9/11 can be so out of touch with reality.
It does show one thing very clearly though - neither deserves full time occupancy of their respective party leaderships.
As I see it....
'K.D. Galagher'
