She Started It

When a coworker approached me this afternoon to tout the virtues of Loose Change 911---no link provided, look it up if you want to be ill, I lost it. When she learned that I knew about the film and website, she asked me, "Don't you think our government COULD have planned the destruction of the World Trade Center? Don't you think it COULD have been a series of planted demolition explosives?" (Actually, she wasn't that articulate with her questions, but you get the general idea. Another thing, anyone who even remotely knows me, knows I'm a flaming conservative and by no stretch of the imagination a conspiracy theorist. I have no idea why she picked me to approach.)

My answer. I got loud. You NEVER get loud when you're arguing with someone who needs educating. (She's a typical "The View" audience member and has only read one book in her life; a book about "organic" food.) However, it had been a very long, frustrating day that included an overflowing queue and continuous systems issues at work, so apparently I wasn't in any mood to educate.

My answer was ABSOLUTELY NOT. I do NOT take the word of terrorists over my government. I don't dismiss TRUE EVIL and go looking to "blame the US first." I do NOT think a sitting president would intentionally plan the killing of 3000 innocent Americans, destroy the economic nerve-center of the world and send the US into a recession. I told her while she's looking to find someone to blame in the US, she's excusing the true murderers, who planned and executed the greatest act of mass murder in United States history.

NO, I don't believe the American government hatched a plot to kill Americans. NO, I do not. How can anyone who truly believes Al-Qaeda is a benevolent, peaceful branch of Islam, the religion of peace and that their country is the true root of everything evil in the world---continue to LIVE in the United States? How? I couldn't. (I wanted to leave Florida when they let Terry Schiavo starve to death, while people who do the same thing to dogs go to jail. I had a difficult time with that.)

"That" website, "that" film is the fair-haired child of Rosie O'Donnell and Charlie Sheen. (Rosie still thinks fire won't destroy steel. Welders? Metallurgists? Do steel girders come out of the ground shaped like that? Hello, acetylene torches CUT steel. Never mind.)

By the way, where are the people that didn't DIE on the planes? A famous Hollywood producer ("Frazier") and a famous journalist, Barbara Olson and hundreds of others are being hidden at a secluded island like "Lost" to be rescued at a later date?

The coworker hemmed and hawed and I told her I couldn't bear to discuss it further with her. I didn't tell her, but I couldn't stomach her ignorance. I had no patience. I turned around in my chair and took a call. I guess I had reached my breaking-point.

Yes, freedom of speech allows you to spout words that hurt and harm Americans who lost family, friends and fellow Americans on September 11th, 2001. I couldn't be passive and say, "Oh, everyone has their own opinions." I couldn't let it pass unchallenged.

Yes, it's easier to get along and go along, but sometimes you have to speak up. Sometimes "they" need to be called on their facts, especially when SHE started it.