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Stop the Presses!
by Neena Louise
In the time since the horrifying atrocities in New York and Washington,
television has once again disappointed me with its coverage. Over and over and
over again we are shown the World Trade Center collapse and people flee in
terror from the ensuing clouds of dust and debris. Again and again and again.
Rather than finding myself becoming immune to the images (which is my usual
reaction to repeated, exploitive depictions of horror), I find myself becoming
more and more disturbed and begging please stop.
We don't need to see this again and again. Everyone has seen it. Everyone knows
what happened. WE WILL NEVER FORGET. Ever. We don't need to see it
again and again in order not to forget. It's been burned into our collective
consciousness forever. Repeating the shocking footage not only upsets us and
prevents us from getting on with our lives, it gives the murderous, cowardly
terrorists satisfaction - "Lookit what we done! They can't stop showing it
on every single one of their television channels! We really did it to them this
time! Aren't we great?!!". Just the thought makes me want to vomit
(really).
We have to move on. I'm not saying we shouldn't continue to grieve for
the thousands that lost their lives, nor stop including the survivors and the
victims' families in our thoughts, but we HAVE to move on and get to the
task at hand: PAYBACK. Giving that sniveling little turd bin Laden and his
fanatic followers all this attention is only giving them exactly what they want.
Doesn't anyone besides me see this?
They tried to ruin us. We just won't stand for it. The only way to show them
that, while they hurt us, they didn't come close to breaking us (and have made
us much stronger) is to stop giving them all this attention. They're like
spoiled little snot-nosed brats who prefer negative attention to no attention at
all. We absolutely must stop giving it to them.
The American Red Cross
www.redcross.org
To donate cash: 1-800 HELP NOW
To donate blood: 1-800 GIVE LIFE
The Canadian Red Cross
www.redcross.ca
Canadian Red Cross National Office, 170 Metcalfe Street, Suite 300, Ottawa,
Ontario, K2P 2P2
To donate cash: 1-800-418-1111
To donate blood: www.bloodservices.ca, 1-888-2 DONATE
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